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#1 Offline Jonny8040 - Posted August 5 2020 - 8:00 AM

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Hey guys,
These little fellers are all over where I live. Super small and slow moving. Very yellowish pupae. Any idea what they are?

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#2 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted August 5 2020 - 8:04 AM

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Those are either Ponera or Hypoponera.



#3 Offline Manitobant - Posted August 5 2020 - 8:04 AM

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Ponera pennsylvanica. The large one is a queen.

#4 Offline Jonny8040 - Posted August 5 2020 - 8:07 AM

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Thank you all! Is there a care sheet on these guys?
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#5 Offline ponerinecat - Posted August 5 2020 - 8:07 AM

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Ponera pennsylvanica. I don't see any pupae, just larvae.



#6 Offline Jonny8040 - Posted August 5 2020 - 8:30 AM

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Ponera pennsylvanica. I don't see any pupae, just larvae.


There wasn’t pupae in this colony but in another one I flipped over
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#7 Offline Antkid12 - Posted August 5 2020 - 8:31 AM

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Cool find.


Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 


#8 Offline Devi - Posted August 5 2020 - 9:39 AM

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That's a cool species!  Nice find!



#9 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted August 5 2020 - 10:05 AM

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They need high humidity to survive, and primarily eat insects. Good luck!


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#10 Offline ponerinecat - Posted August 5 2020 - 10:58 AM

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they'll take dead things as well, and perhaps some sugars.



#11 Offline Manitobant - Posted August 5 2020 - 3:06 PM

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don't they only eat springtails usually?

#12 Offline ponerinecat - Posted August 5 2020 - 5:01 PM

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don't they only eat springtails usually?

Not at all. They'll take other small soil fauna as well as some sugars, will likely scavenge larger animals, and may even hunt very large prey when the colony is large enough. The latter 2 points are based on my own observations with Hypoponera, where they actually seem to get a lot of protein from dead invertebrates and will take on large arthropods such as juvenile earwigs, small centipedes, and spiders. However behavior between the 2 should be similar enough that we can assume Ponera will do the same or roughly the same.



#13 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 6 2020 - 7:38 AM

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My queen has survived for months off of pieces of dubia roaches and crickets.




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