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Ants_Dakota's General Ant Journal(Hibernation issues and experiments in South Dakota)

Started By Ants_Dakota , Feb 15 2020 6:13 PM
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#61 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted April 27 2020 - 12:16 PM

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Nice! In that last picture, is that a pile of ants on top of each other? :lol:


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#62 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted April 28 2020 - 9:13 AM

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Yes it is. I plan to move them into another of my formicariums as soon as i can get the supplies to build it. The formicariums will be for sale when i get them started. I also have 41 queens for this colony now!


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#63 Offline AntsDakota - Posted April 28 2020 - 9:15 AM

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Yeah, I might just move my Myrmica into a test tube, as the humidity levels are much more suitable for them there.


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#64 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted April 28 2020 - 9:18 AM

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I could build you a formicarium, if you want. They will have a new design with tunnels, and an outworld.


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#65 Offline AntsDakota - Posted April 28 2020 - 9:21 AM

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Perhaps for the Lasius, but I think the Myrmica would like a test tube better, as they can 'pile on top of each other' better.  :lol:


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#66 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted April 28 2020 - 9:22 AM

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My old myrmica americana did love to do that.


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#67 Offline AntsDakota - Posted April 28 2020 - 9:25 AM

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My old myrmica americana did love to do that.

When I tried to move my old colony into an AC Formica Hybrid Nest (I'll call these H1N1s after Swine Flu  :lol: ), and attached a test tube for a water source. The whole colony moved into the test tube.  :facepalm: I had even watered the nest..........


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#68 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted April 28 2020 - 12:48 PM

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Yes it is. I plan to move them into another of my formicariums as soon as i can get the supplies to build it. The formicariums will be for sale when i get them started. I also have 41 queens for this colony now!

Wow! nice


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#69 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted April 30 2020 - 9:48 AM

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April 30th, 2020, Update #1

(I am restarting and organizing this journal)

Here is some pics of my formica colony. It now has 7 queens and maybe 11 workers.

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They myrmica is the same. I am just buying tome for them until i can redesign and recreate their formicarium.

I do want to have help with identifying the formica.


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#70 Offline AntsDakota - Posted April 30 2020 - 9:49 AM

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I do want to have help with identifying the formica.

You'd need much better pictures, at different angles.


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#71 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted April 30 2020 - 9:53 AM

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I will get more later.


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#72 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted April 30 2020 - 9:55 AM

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April 30th, 2020, Update #1

(I am restarting and organizing this journal)

Here is some pics of my formica colony. It now has 7 queens and maybe 11 workers.

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attachicon.gifP1040702.JPG

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They myrmica is the same. I am just buying tome for them until i can redesign and recreate their formicarium.

I do want to have help with identifying the formica.

Is that all the workers there was? It looks to be Formica subsericea, btw. Better pictures would be required to get a certain ID.


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#73 Offline AntsDakota - Posted April 30 2020 - 10:19 AM

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April 30th, 2020, Update #1

(I am restarting and organizing this journal)

Here is some pics of my formica colony. It now has 7 queens and maybe 11 workers.

attachicon.gifP1040698.JPG

attachicon.gifP1040702.JPG

attachicon.gifP1040703.JPG

They myrmica is the same. I am just buying tome for them until i can redesign and recreate their formicarium.

I do want to have help with identifying the formica.

Is that all the workers there was? It looks to be Formica subsericea, btw. Better pictures would be required to get a certain ID.

 

It was a small colony. However, the queens are a little small to be subsericea, and I've seen subsericea queens before. They were much bulkier and fatter, and a couple mm larger. My guess would be podzolica, but that's just me.


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#74 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted April 30 2020 - 10:24 AM

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April 30th, 2020, Update #1

(I am restarting and organizing this journal)

Here is some pics of my formica colony. It now has 7 queens and maybe 11 workers.

attachicon.gifP1040698.JPG

attachicon.gifP1040702.JPG

attachicon.gifP1040703.JPG

They myrmica is the same. I am just buying tome for them until i can redesign and recreate their formicarium.

I do want to have help with identifying the formica.

Is that all the workers there was? It looks to be Formica subsericea, btw. Better pictures would be required to get a certain ID.

 

It was a small colony. However, the queens are a little small to be subsericea, and I've seen subsericea queens before. They were much bulkier and fatter, and a couple mm larger. My guess would be podzolica, but that's just me.

 

Those are just underfed queens. Once they grow larger and get more access to food they'll look like the ones you're describing. 


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#75 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted April 30 2020 - 1:58 PM

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I will try to get better pics. They have been fed honey now, so they should be much bigger :)


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#76 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted May 1 2020 - 9:08 AM

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May 1st, 2020, Update #2

Here is the order I am going to put my ants:

Aphaenogaster Tennesseensis

No new info.

Aphaenogaster Rudis

Will update on this later.

Formica Subsericea(for now)

Still need help for sure identifying them as subsericea

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Formica Sp.

I also need this species identified

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Myrmica sp.

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#77 Offline Ants4fun - Posted May 6 2020 - 6:59 AM

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Later formica might be Formica montana.


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#78 Offline AntsDakota - Posted May 6 2020 - 8:01 AM

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I believe I had a F. montana queen, and it was different from that one. They were alive at the same time, so I could compare.
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#79 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted May 6 2020 - 11:39 AM

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Thanks for the info, ants4fun. I will consider her montana until i can get better pics.


Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. -Proverbs 6: 6-8

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#80 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted May 7 2020 - 11:30 AM

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May 7th, 2020, Update #3

Aphaenogaster Tennesseensis

This colony may or may not have a queen, but i believe that it does.

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Aphaenogaster Rudis

I have 2 colonies of these ants, both without queens, and i am in doubt of what to do with them.

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Formica Subsericea(for now)

Still need help for sure identifying them as subsericea

Lasius Brevicornis

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