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[antsandmore]

 

 

 

 

Hello, Formiculture!

 

We at the AntsDakota Discord server have put up an Antkeeping Contest of sorts, where we all compete for the title of Camponotus-Master. Basically, at the start of the Camponotus nuptial flight season, we each will collect several queens. We will care for those colonies to the best of our ability, and on November 25th, when the contest closes, the person with the largest colony will win the title. We are considering doing something like this every year for different common genera. The two basic rules are:

 

1. No brood boosting queens.

2. Queens must be collected fresh this nuptial flight season.

 

We're also only allowing species of the subgera (Camponotus) and (Tanaemyrmex) to level the playing-fields, as species from subgenera like (Myrmothrix) aren't found in many states, and have an insane growth rate.

 

Here's some more in-depth info. We hope you will join us, and have fun in the process! 

 

-The AntsDakota Team

i would join, but I don't have discord... I need to catch a queen and enter, can I do that on this thread?...

 

I suppose you could. Lemme take it up with the rest of the Admins.

 

thanks. now I'm wondering if camponotus fragilis would be cheating, because they grow fast, but you need to catch them later in the year

also, is there a prize for winners? lol

 

They fly depending on rain. 

 

true, true.

[KitsAntVa]

Why don’t we set a date to start after the flight and start when everybody is ready? Put the queens in the fridge until it’s time.

[antsandmore]

Why don’t we set a date to start after the flight and start when everybody is ready? Put the queens in the fridge until it’s time.

that might mess with some sp, because here in san diego, some queens don't actually hibernate, and it can cause bad effects if they hibernate in random parts. I honestly think catching the queens and taking the challenge is part of the fun with this.

[AleeGuy]

Why don’t we set a date to start after the flight and start when everybody is ready? Put the queens in the fridge until it’s time.

It will be more unfair rather than just letting them start when they want to. It might mess them up and they might try to hibernate again, refuse to lay eggs or do the opposite and give them more advantage.

[Antkeeper01]

As of yesterday 11:35 PM MTN time we reached 100 member!!      

[antsandmore]

As of yesterday 11:35 PM MTN time we reached 100 member!!      

noice! lets keep going!!!

[AleeGuy]

As of yesterday 11:35 PM MTN time we reached 100 member!!

Or today, Feb. 3, 1:35AM EST!

[antsandmore]

 

As of yesterday 11:35 PM MTN time we reached 100 member!!

Or today, Feb. 3, 1:35AM EST!

 

lol 

[AleeGuy]

We hit 100 members and got our first boost today, thanks to Stricky!

[antsandmore]

We hit 100 members and got our first boost today, thanks to Stricky!

ya! lets go

[TennesseeAnts]

Since you all last heard from us, there have been some major developments regarding the former AntsDakota server. The server has exchanged ownership, with me being the owner and Devi being my head Administrator. Sometime earlier this year (presumably due to some internal drama within the mod team leaking out into the server) we got less and less active, going from an average of roughly a thousand messages a day to literally three or four. We all sorta gave up on it for a while around July/August, but since then I have been working with the mod team to get the server active again. Adding new bots (including Echometer4's custom ant bot!), updating the staff, fixing up the server/amending rules and cleaning up channels. As of October we are starting to be more active again, with our best day for activity in a long time occurring yesterday, with 239 messages. Its not much, but its a start. We've dropped to about 120 members for the time being.

For anyone that wants to join, I have a permanent invite here: https://discord.gg/JbKwPgs