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#1 Offline yen_saw - Posted May 16 2020 - 4:31 PM

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Anyone here interested in Attaphila? They are not very common and only found living inside the leaf cutter ant colony. The Attaphila hop on to the Atta texana queens prior to nuptial flight and spread that way. I have collected some Atta texana recently and found some of these on the Atta queens. I know some people study this type of roaches.

 

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#2 Offline Zeiss - Posted May 16 2020 - 9:16 PM

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Do you know what care would be like for them?  I might be interested in them.  I could try giving them some Acromyrmex versicolor fungus if they'd need fungus to eat.


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#3 Offline yen_saw - Posted May 17 2020 - 6:06 AM

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Do you know what care would be like for them?  I might be interested in them.  I could try giving them some Acromyrmex versicolor fungus if they'd need fungus to eat.

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#4 Offline ponerinecat - Posted May 17 2020 - 9:38 AM

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Very interesting! Definitely try to raise/give them to others, myrmecophiles are amazing. Would love to get my hands on some of those myself.






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