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What ant species would you love to keep next season?

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#21 Offline rbarreto - Posted November 2 2019 - 9:42 PM

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Looking for more Formica parasites
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#22 Offline ANTdrew - Posted November 3 2019 - 3:50 AM

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Looking for more Formica parasites

Formica of any kind would be super cool to find.
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#23 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted November 3 2019 - 10:56 AM

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I want Camponotus castaneus, Neivamyrmex nigrescens, Pogonomyrmex badius, Camponotus decipiens, Formica obscuriventris, Formica subsericea (again), Formica incerta, Myrmica incompleta (again), Formica dolosa, Solenopsis xyloni. I'll think of a few more.

Goo luck raising neivamyrmex. If you do manage to catch some, it would be amazing if they survived

They're extremely common here. Hard to walk through the woods without finding trails. Found a colony earlier this year, but couldn't locate the queen.

#24 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted November 3 2019 - 12:20 PM

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#25 Offline Broncos - Posted November 3 2019 - 4:54 PM

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I would loooooovvvvvveeeee to have pheidole hyatti.


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#26 Offline ponerinecat - Posted November 3 2019 - 7:08 PM

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Speak of the devil, just saw them raidign some termites today.



#27 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted November 4 2019 - 12:49 PM

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Any Lasius, Pheidole, or Formica species I can find. Myrmica would be nice too. The thing about Formica though is that mine always die after one day. The first time I had one I accidentally left it outside baking in the sun. The one I had this year just died for no reason. It didn’t have wings so I think it what fertile too.

#28 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted November 4 2019 - 12:51 PM

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Nice, Lasius is a really easy species, just a tad small in my opinion

I like Lasius because of them being small. I have a queen less colony Lasius aphidicola. That’s at least what the queen that two of the workers brutally murdered in their confusion was.

#29 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted November 4 2019 - 4:11 PM

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Any Camponotus, any Myrmecocystus, Acromyrmex Versicolor, any Pogonomyrmex, Novomessor Cockerelli 


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#30 Offline ponerinecat - Posted November 4 2019 - 8:15 PM

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I want Camponotus castaneus, Neivamyrmex nigrescens, Pogonomyrmex badius, Camponotus decipiens, Formica obscuriventris, Formica subsericea (again), Formica incerta, Myrmica incompleta (again), Formica dolosa, Solenopsis xyloni. I'll think of a few more.

Goo luck raising neivamyrmex. If you do manage to catch some, it would be amazing if they survived

They're extremely common here. Hard to walk through the woods without finding trails. Found a colony earlier this year, but couldn't locate the queen.

 

little bit of advice: if they're common, collect as many. They have been used to collect complete nests of soil nesting species, as workers poured into the nest entrance can trigger a complete evacuation.


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#31 Offline Martialis - Posted November 5 2019 - 5:56 AM

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It’s quite possible I’ll be in Mississippi for at least the latter part of it, so I might try some ponerine or cryptic species down there.
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#32 Offline ponerinecat - Posted November 5 2019 - 5:47 PM

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It’s quite possible I’ll be in Mississippi for at least the latter part of it, so I might try some ponerine or cryptic species down there.

tell us what you find



#33 Offline treehunned - Posted November 6 2019 - 7:23 AM

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Any Camponotus 



#34 Offline ponerinecat - Posted November 7 2019 - 4:02 PM

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any cryptic species and pseudomyrmex



#35 Offline Antennal_Scrobe - Posted November 7 2019 - 7:50 PM

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I actually would just really like to keep Pheidole. Perhaps in one of those Antstore formicaria with the artificial digging medium. I hope I can find some on the beach at Doctor's Park.


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Tetramorium immigrans, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Myrmica punctiventris, Formica subsericea

Formica pallidefulva, Aphaeogaster cf. rudis

Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Camponotus nearcticus

Crematogaster cerasi

Temnothorax ambiguus

Prenolepis imparis


#36 Offline Nanahira - Posted November 10 2019 - 7:19 PM

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1000+ Pogonomyrmex Californicus queens.


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#37 Offline AntsDakota - Posted November 11 2019 - 8:45 AM

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I would appreciate some parasitic Lasius and Formica, and Crematogaster.


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