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Started By Antkeeper01 , Sep 6 2020 5:28 AM
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#41 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted September 21 2020 - 8:18 AM

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She only has three limbs and you are calling it good?!?
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#42 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted September 21 2020 - 8:27 AM

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better than dead


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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#43 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted September 21 2020 - 11:45 AM

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better than dead

I’m not sure about that. Can she even walk?

#44 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted September 21 2020 - 12:06 PM

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i had a formica queen with 4 legs and 1 antennae pour out eggs.


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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#45 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted September 21 2020 - 12:16 PM

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she can walk... some


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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#46 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted September 22 2020 - 3:22 AM

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she can walk... some

Did you even refrigerate the workers before the introduction? That generally helps tame down the workers.


#47 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted September 22 2020 - 8:01 AM

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no, but like I have said in other posts I am a beginner ant keeper.


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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#48 Offline Devi - Posted September 22 2020 - 8:35 AM

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no, but like I have said in other posts I am a beginner ant keeper.

I understand that you are a beginner, and that people make mistakes, but being a beginner doesn't really give you an excuse to mistreat ants.  Please make sure you are knowledgeable about a certain topic so you can do your best and limit deadly ant mistakes.  


#49 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted September 22 2020 - 8:43 AM

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I know, but still I have researched for months and yet I never noticed that fact. and if I didn't get it done then I was afraid they would die because I found a dead nanitic that night curled up on a seed but right now they are doing amazing they have finally managed to crack open a seed and eat it without me helping.


1X Pogonomyrmex occidentalis 40-50 Workers

1X Solenopsis molesta 10 Workers (mono)

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

 

My Youtube channel: https://www.youtube....kUjx-dPFMyVqOLw

 

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#50 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted September 22 2020 - 9:28 AM

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I know, but still I have researched for months and yet I never noticed that fact. and if I didn't get it done then I was afraid they would die because I found a dead nanitic that night curled up on a seed but right now they are doing amazing they have finally managed to crack open a seed and eat it without me helping.

Being a beginner also means asking questions when you need help. Remember that.
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#51 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted September 22 2020 - 9:40 AM

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ok thank you, also I would like my journal to stay on topic so can we stop talking about this for now. Thank you


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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#52 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted September 23 2020 - 8:36 AM

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So today I am leaving for a week and the colonies are doing good but most of the test-tubes will soon run out of water and there is the problem that There is no-one to feed them its easy to feed Queen Persephone but pavement ants in test-tubes, does anyone know how to make a liquid feeder that can fit in a test-tube?


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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#53 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted September 23 2020 - 8:43 AM

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I think all you need to do is get a water bottle cap with a couple small drops of honey it it and put it in the outworld with them, also put a second test tube beside of theirs, if you need help for an outworld going to the store and looking at cheap plastic containers is good, small ones like 2 dollars for 3 of them work.


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#54 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted September 27 2020 - 7:39 PM

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Soooo, today I did something that AntDrew would not approve of; captured a wild colony of crematogaster. :whistle:  :whistle:  :whistle: It is a small colony with about 50 workers and they are so amazing.


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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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#55 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted September 28 2020 - 5:09 AM

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The Crematogaster colony is doing good, but I have no food for them other than twizzler's so do you know if they can eat those or gummy bears.


1X Pogonomyrmex occidentalis 40-50 Workers

1X Solenopsis molesta 10 Workers (mono)

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

 

My Youtube channel: https://www.youtube....kUjx-dPFMyVqOLw

 

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#56 Offline Devi - Posted September 28 2020 - 5:24 AM

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The Crematogaster colony is doing good, but I have no food for them other than twizzler's so do you know if they can eat those or gummy bears.

How did you collect them??  And I don't really approve either.  If you have TWIZZLER'S of all things, please please please let this colony go.  They will NOT do well on Twizzler's.  What formicarium do you have them in?  And did you get the queen?


#57 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted September 28 2020 - 6:19 AM

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i used to capture colonies, but i have resolved not to now. it is up to you about whether to do it or not. just try not to kill them. They will survive for a while without carbs, but try to get them honey or sugar water. i would not use any candies, as they are harder for the ants to eat. 


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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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#58 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted September 28 2020 - 6:21 AM

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Yes I got the queen, and it looked like they had suffered a raid, and I have more than twizzlers, I have some beetles I will feed them and they are in a plastic container with dirt and is Vaseline lined the queen is currently under a piece of woods.


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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#59 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted September 28 2020 - 11:15 AM

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Pleas do not capture a colony if you have no good foods to give them. Also, Crematogaster queens are flying in this time of year so why did you even collect a colony at this time?
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#60 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted September 28 2020 - 8:23 PM

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Today I lifted up a rock and found a ant queen(without a colony), she is red and her gaster is a little bit orange and I am assuming she is a aphenogaster, and the crematogaster colony got honey earlier today.


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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