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#1 Offline Pheidole_love - Posted January 18 2020 - 11:39 PM

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Hi everyone, my name is Michael. My experience of keeping ants is over three years. Not so long ago, I bought at the auction Iridomyrmex bicknelli. And, no matter how strange it may sound, I need help with this opinion. The problem is that in this family the eggs do not develop, they have lain for about a week and have not turned into larvae, it bothers me very much. If you can, please help. I will be very grateful to you.

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#2 Offline ANTdrew - Posted January 19 2020 - 3:12 AM

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Welcome to FC! Maybe your colony is not warm enough if the eggs aren’t developing. What temperature are you keeping them at?
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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#3 Offline dspdrew - Posted January 19 2020 - 3:28 AM

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Sounds like someone might have sold you an infertile dealate.


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#4 Offline Pheidole_love - Posted January 19 2020 - 10:15 AM

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Sounds like someone might have sold you an infertile dealate.

Sorry, I forgot to say that these are eggs of the second generation.

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#5 Offline Pheidole_love - Posted January 19 2020 - 10:17 AM

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Welcome to FC! Maybe your colony is not warm enough if the eggs aren’t developing. What temperature are you keeping them at?

I'm afraid to overheat them, because it can cause death.

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#6 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted January 19 2020 - 1:13 PM

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I'm an antkeeping newbie but do they need brumination? I read that some colonies can miss their first or or two cold hibernation periods but run into trouble later.

I have a Camponotus colony whose eggs/larvae aren't developing either. Mystified.


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#7 Offline Ants4fun - Posted January 20 2020 - 12:42 PM

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I'm an antkeeping newbie but do they need brumination? I read that some colonies can miss their first or or two cold hibernation periods but run into trouble later.
I have a Camponotus colony whose eggs/larvae aren't developing either. Mystified.


This species is native throughout Australia and New Guinea, so doesn’t necessarily require a hibernation period. However, do you know that these are in fact her workers, and she was not brood boosted at all? A week isn’t terribly long, so it might take a little longer before you notice the change into larval form.

#8 Offline Pheidole_love - Posted December 24 2020 - 9:42 PM

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Well,i sold them.



#9 Offline ANTdrew - Posted December 24 2020 - 9:49 PM

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Well,i sold them.

Uh, ok.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#10 Offline Pheidole_love - Posted December 24 2020 - 9:55 PM

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Well,i sold them.

Uh, ok.

 

But, i have a 2 colonies of Pheidole. One are too small and two colonie are big and strong. And, they lives in big terrarium.


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#11 Offline Pheidole_love - Posted December 24 2020 - 9:57 PM

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I'm an antkeeping newbie but do they need brumination? I read that some colonies can miss their first or or two cold hibernation periods but run into trouble later.
I have a Camponotus colony whose eggs/larvae aren't developing either. Mystified.


This species is native throughout Australia and New Guinea, so doesn’t necessarily require a hibernation period. However, do you know that these are in fact her workers, and she was not brood boosted at all? A week isn’t terribly long, so it might take a little longer before you notice the change into larval form.

 

They need diapause, but they don't need hibernation.



#12 Offline Pheidole_love - Posted December 24 2020 - 10:00 PM

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Also, I can order you to catch the queen ant from Russia next summer. 



#13 Offline AleeGuy - Posted December 25 2020 - 7:49 AM

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Добро пожаловать в formiculture, ты спрашиваешь купить маток муравьев из США и отправить к тебе? это нелегально если что. Диапауза и спячка/зимовка почти одно и тоже, в диапаузе просто живые существа попадают в спячку до того как станет холодно(осенью) а в спячке/зимовке они попадают в спячку как только станет холодно, так что у них нету такого огромного отличия

#14 Offline Pheidole_love - Posted December 25 2020 - 9:25 AM

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Добро пожаловать в formiculture, ты спрашиваешь купить маток муравьев из США и отправить к тебе? это нелегально если что. Диапауза и спячка/зимовка почти одно и тоже, в диапаузе просто живые существа попадают в спячку до того как станет холодно(осенью) а в спячке/зимовке они попадают в спячку как только станет холодно, так что у них нету такого огромного отличия

In my latitudes, ants collect food before the first snow and frost, and only after that they go underground for a full winter. And no, I don't want to buy ants yet, I want to sell them. Well, if it's illegal under the laws of your country/state, then okay.



#15 Offline ANTdrew - Posted December 25 2020 - 9:49 AM

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Do you speak Russian, AleeGuy? That would be really cool.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#16 Offline Devi - Posted December 25 2020 - 10:07 AM

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Do you speak Russian, AleeGuy? That would be really cool.

I was wondering that too, do you speak it or was that just Google Translate or something?



#17 Offline AleeGuy - Posted December 25 2020 - 10:13 AM

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Do you speak Russian, AleeGuy? That would be really cool.



Do you speak Russian, AleeGuy? That would be really cool.

I was wondering that too, do you speak it or was that just Google Translate or something?
I do speak Russian

#18 Offline AleeGuy - Posted December 25 2020 - 10:16 AM

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Добро пожаловать в formiculture, ты спрашиваешь купить маток муравьев из США и отправить к тебе? это нелегально если что. Диапауза и спячка/зимовка почти одно и тоже, в диапаузе просто живые существа попадают в спячку до того как станет холодно(осенью) а в спячке/зимовке они попадают в спячку как только станет холодно, так что у них нету такого огромного отличия

In my latitudes, ants collect food before the first snow and frost, and only after that they go underground for a full winter. And no, I don't want to buy ants yet, I want to sell them. Well, if it's illegal under the laws of your country/state, then okay.
ye, it is illegal for the country, for Canada too iirc

#19 Offline Devi - Posted December 25 2020 - 10:31 AM

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Do you speak Russian, AleeGuy? That would be really cool.


 

Do you speak Russian, AleeGuy? That would be really cool.

I was wondering that too, do you speak it or was that just Google Translate or something?
I do speak Russian

 

That's super cool.  I didn't know that!


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#20 Offline ANTdrew - Posted December 25 2020 - 12:04 PM

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Very cool. I wish I could learn Russian. Their ant keeping knowledge is light years ahead of ours, and as Ovechkin says, “Russian machine never breaks.”
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.




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