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Started By Darcy , May 10 2021 3:01 AM

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#1 Offline Darcy - Posted May 10 2021 - 3:03 AM

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Caught these 4 beauties in a random nuptial flight the other day. Regarded as a rarer genus to catch because of small nuptial flights in winter, luckily grabbed a few and and they're laying already.




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#2 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted May 10 2021 - 3:19 AM

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Wow! Those don't live in malaysia where I am from... I hope this goes well!

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Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), ★ Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#3 Offline Manitobant - Posted May 10 2021 - 7:07 AM

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I didn’t know these guys were polygynous or pleo. Good luck!
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Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#4 Offline yibsi - Posted May 10 2021 - 7:58 AM

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Looking forward to seeing this cool colony grow!


    Nylanderia parvula - 4 queen polygynous colony with larvae + devoloping workers

    Camponotus pennsylvanicus  - 1 queen with 2 cocoons, and a few larvae and eggs

    Tetramorium immigrans - 3 colonies, first nanetics!

    Formica pallidifulva - 1 queen, 8-10 eggs

    Tetramorium atratulum - 1 queen with roughly 17 host workers

    :D Pheidole pilifera - 1 queen! recently caught! :D

    Solenopsis Molesta - 2 queens so far, polygenous set-up

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My T. Atratulum Journal - https://www.formicul...ontinued/page-2

#5 Offline Darcy - Posted May 10 2021 - 11:51 AM

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I didn’t know these guys were polygynous or pleo. Good luck!

Nor did I. I just didn't have another test tube to house them when I was collecting them and they didn't go attacking each other so I hopped they would all work together, kind of like workers for a queen but all being queen's would pump out egg with each other

#6 Offline Darcy - Posted May 17 2021 - 2:03 AM

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#7 Offline Darcy - Posted May 17 2021 - 2:06 AM

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17 Eggs in alittle over 2 weeks. These girls will be pumping out little ones really fast when they get workers going

#8 Offline Darcy - Posted May 31 2021 - 2:07 AM

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#9 Offline Darcy - Posted May 31 2021 - 2:10 AM

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3 out of 4 queens have dropped their wings and there's about 20-25 eggs now. Hopefully soon there will be some nanitics emerging. How long do they usually take to form into workers from eggs? Also queens had abit of honey but didn't take to the second drop so somewhat semi-claustral

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