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Have any of you successfully housed Hypoponera inexorata before? I am curious as to diet.
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Posted January 7 2020 - 10:16 AM
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Posted January 7 2020 - 10:35 AM
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It doesn't seem like it would have a similar diet to the other Hypoponera species. It probably feeds on cryptic arthropods like springtails.
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Posted January 7 2020 - 4:42 PM
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Greetings all!
Have any of you successfully housed Hypoponera inexorata before? I am curious as to diet.
Glad to see you're still active! Like Martialis said, they probably aren't that different from other species in the same genus. I would think they like small, moist nest chambers premade or in soft material like wood or organic matter filled dirt. From experience with Hypoponera opacior/opaciceps, they probably will accept sugars soaked into a sponge or paper. They can most likely take down rather large prey, and will probably feed on pre-killed animals too. That's probably a bit vague, but it works for their sister species.
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Posted January 7 2020 - 4:43 PM
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I have found sugar water, honey, geophilid centipedes, small flies/midges, gall wasps, springtails, diplurans, symphylans, spiders, and baby earwigs to be the most effective. I havent really tried anything else, they seem to be quite generalistic.
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Posted January 7 2020 - 5:40 PM
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It doesn't seem like it would have a similar diet to the other Hypoponera species. It probably feeds on cryptic arthropods like springtails.
It "doesn't"? You mean "does", right, because most Hypoponera do eat springtails?
Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies.
However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:
Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant).
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Posted January 8 2020 - 12:48 AM
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Thank you all for your responses. I have collected three de-alated females, they were together, so it seems that they co-found colonies (?). I have given them live collembola and also freshly killed termites. I will keep this updated as to how they are doing.
Yeah, I have been here the whole time ponerinecat just grad school has been keeping me rather busy but it is terribly exciting. My research into the cryptic nature of Tapinoma sessile is moving along smoothly. I think I am just going to go ahead and pursue a PhD too.
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