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OhNoNotAgain’s neglected Pogonomyrmex have an alate!

Started By OhNoNotAgain , Jun 22 2020 11:30 AM
pogonomyrmex californicus subnitidus

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#61 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted March 22 2023 - 3:42 PM

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Soooo just to update, still have three colonies of P. subnitidus (??) and the one colony still has the winged gynes….
Here they are. Surprised they are still around.
I took them off heat in the winter and tried to keep them watered, but that’s about all I did.

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Past & Present

Veromessor pergandei, andrei, stoddardi; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis, Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola, CA02

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus, P. californicus (inactive)

Liometopum occidentale (inactive); Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive); Tetramorium sp. (inactive);  Lasius sp.

 

Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis, and a box of drywood termites that can't be seen

Isopods: (most no longer keeping) A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus, P. pruinosus, T. tomentosa

Spoods: (no longer keeping) Phidippus sp., other

#62 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted October 22 2023 - 11:05 PM

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10/23/23

RIP main colony…. Queen dead….
2nd colony queen still going.
3rd colony failed some weeks ago 😫

Past & Present

Veromessor pergandei, andrei, stoddardi; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis, Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola, CA02

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus, P. californicus (inactive)

Liometopum occidentale (inactive); Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive); Tetramorium sp. (inactive);  Lasius sp.

 

Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis, and a box of drywood termites that can't be seen

Isopods: (most no longer keeping) A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus, P. pruinosus, T. tomentosa

Spoods: (no longer keeping) Phidippus sp., other

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