Ouch! Those AntWorldUSA nests are awful, sounds like. Sorry.
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OhNoNotAgain's Tetramorium Attack on Titan (Quercicola etc) DISCONTINUED
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Posted May 2 2021 - 2:49 AM
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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.
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.
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Posted May 2 2021 - 9:45 AM
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Ouch! Those AntWorldUSA nests are awful, sounds like. Sorry.
Oh no, they aren't bad - just the Tetra are so darn small any imperfection or bad placement in lid and box fit they can get out.
It's just around the lip of the outworld that's the problem. Everything else is sealed really tightly.
So the one major drawback, in fact, is it's sealed so well that you can't clean the nest. That's really my main complaint.
My life right now has some major stuff going on so it's been hard for me to keep up with the barrier (mineral oil) maintenance.
Formiculture Journals::
Veromessor pergandei, andrei; Novomessor cockerelli
Camponotus fragilis; also separate journal: Camponotus sansabeanus, vicinus, quercicola
Liometopum occidentale; Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus
Pogonomyrmex subnitidus and previously californicus
Tetramorium sp.
Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis
Isopods: A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus
Spoods: Phidippus sp.
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Posted May 2 2021 - 10:54 AM
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Can you set their formicarium over a little tray filled with water? You’d have to keep on top of refilling it, but that would 100% prevent anything like this happening again.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.
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Posted May 27 2021 - 8:19 PM
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Oooooooops. So I had been ignoring the Tetras aside from dropping in fruit flies…. I guess still annoyed at what they did to my other colonies. Today I saw a bunch trying to escape and it turns out… they were out of water. Looks like I lost most of the workforce again (it’s happened before in this journal). We’ll see what happens!
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Formiculture Journals::
Veromessor pergandei, andrei; Novomessor cockerelli
Camponotus fragilis; also separate journal: Camponotus sansabeanus, vicinus, quercicola
Liometopum occidentale; Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus
Pogonomyrmex subnitidus and previously californicus
Tetramorium sp.
Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis
Isopods: A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus
Spoods: Phidippus sp.
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Posted August 26 2021 - 8:26 PM
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They are constantly trying to escape and I need to oil the walls. Their nest is so gross I can't see a thing inside.
I need to seriously clean their world but it's very hard to do.
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Formiculture Journals::
Veromessor pergandei, andrei; Novomessor cockerelli
Camponotus fragilis; also separate journal: Camponotus sansabeanus, vicinus, quercicola
Liometopum occidentale; Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus
Pogonomyrmex subnitidus and previously californicus
Tetramorium sp.
Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis
Isopods: A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus
Spoods: Phidippus sp.
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Posted March 27 2022 - 9:39 PM
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The Tertramorium I believe perished in the garage over the winter. To be honest I am relieved. They really escaped easily and they wreaked havoc and killed off struggling colonies… not by killing queens, but by offing workers. Their toxin seemed to have a delayed but lethal effect on their foes.
I do not plan on getting more Tetramorium!!
I do not plan on getting more Tetramorium!!
Formiculture Journals::
Veromessor pergandei, andrei; Novomessor cockerelli
Camponotus fragilis; also separate journal: Camponotus sansabeanus, vicinus, quercicola
Liometopum occidentale; Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus
Pogonomyrmex subnitidus and previously californicus
Tetramorium sp.
Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis
Isopods: A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus
Spoods: Phidippus sp.
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Posted March 28 2022 - 2:06 AM
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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.
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.
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The Tertramorium I believe perished in the garage over the winter. To be honest I am relieved. They really escaped easily and they wreaked havoc and killed off struggling colonies… not by killing queens, but by offing workers. Their toxin seemed to have a delayed but lethal effect on their foes.
I do not plan on getting more Tetramorium!!
Well if you aren't going to get more Tetramorium immigrans then I will! Seem like fun and I have the perfect escape proof nest.
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