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#21 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted June 13 2021 - 6:46 PM

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update?


1X Pogonomyrmex occidentalis 40-50 Workers

1X Solenopsis molesta 10 Workers (mono)

Ants I Want: Crematogaster sp, Camponotus Sp., Ponera Pennsylvanica, Mymercocystus sp.

 

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#22 Offline Squidkid - Posted July 2 2021 - 9:08 PM

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Both my colonies ended up loose.
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#23 Offline eea - Posted July 3 2021 - 8:13 AM

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Both my colonies ended up loose.

in your house? goodluck with that  :o


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-camponotus sansabeanus: 20 wokrers


#24 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted July 3 2021 - 10:32 AM

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Both my colonies ended up loose.

any chance you try to get more?


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1X Pogonomyrmex occidentalis 40-50 Workers

1X Solenopsis molesta 10 Workers (mono)

Ants I Want: Crematogaster sp, Camponotus Sp., Ponera Pennsylvanica, Mymercocystus sp.

 

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#25 Offline Manitobant - Posted July 3 2021 - 10:54 AM

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It seems like these guys are escape artists. Cheeto also had them escape.
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#26 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 3 2021 - 11:24 AM

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It’s been shown time and again that keeping them long term is not feasible.
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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.

#27 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted July 3 2021 - 3:51 PM

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It seems like these guys are escape artists. Cheeto also had them escape.


Yeah, I'm the only one I've seen besides PurdueEntomology that's been able to contain them for the length of the experiment.
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#28 Offline NickAnter - Posted July 3 2021 - 3:55 PM

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I have had several ideas for automated collection of ant brood that would make the keeping of colonies vastly easier. However, I do not have the resources, the space, nor the ants, to test these ideas.


Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 





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