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M_Ants Hypoponera opaciceps Starting Over with Queens

Started By M_Ants , Oct 3 2020 12:12 PM

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#81 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted November 14 2020 - 12:41 PM

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Very nice. Hope you get these gals to a mature size.

How many workers would be considered adult size for this species? 


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#82 Offline M_Ants - Posted November 14 2020 - 1:08 PM

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Another feeding vid. Totally not needed but I like how they attack the booklice. 


Edited by M_Ants, February 19 2021 - 4:50 PM.

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#83 Offline Guest_StrickyAnts_* - Posted November 14 2020 - 2:22 PM

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Nice! I only once got a colony to workers then died  :(


#84 Offline M_Ants - Posted November 14 2020 - 2:23 PM

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That sucks.


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#85 Offline NickAnter - Posted November 14 2020 - 5:04 PM

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I can't wait until June!


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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). 

#86 Offline ponerinecat - Posted November 14 2020 - 7:05 PM

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Very nice. Hope you get these gals to a mature size.

How many workers would be considered adult size for this species? 

 

A hundred or so.


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#87 Offline M_Ants - Posted November 25 2020 - 5:31 PM

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Not much has happened. Got some fatter larvae though. My booklice culture isn't doing too great. Hopefully it survives. 


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#88 Offline M_Ants - Posted November 28 2020 - 4:50 PM

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Went to a pet store for some Hornworms for my cham and they had springtails for $6. I got some since my booklice aren't doing great. They're actually kinda cute. They are giant compared to booklice. My Hypos still took them though.

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#89 Offline M_Ants - Posted December 8 2020 - 9:23 PM

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Og photo of the substrate Hypos.

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#90 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted December 9 2020 - 5:40 AM

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Idk why, but I find Ponera and Hypoponera kind of cute looking.


#91 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted December 9 2020 - 7:00 AM

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awesome! i will try a setup like yours if i ever get a queen of ponera around here.


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#92 Offline AntsDakota - Posted December 9 2020 - 7:34 AM

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awesome! i will try a setup like yours if i ever get a queen of ponera around here.

Ponera are pretty common around here, idk how you’d not find one.
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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. (including ants) And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

#93 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted December 9 2020 - 7:40 AM

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awesome! i will try a setup like yours if i ever get a queen of ponera around here.

Ponera are pretty common around here, idk how you’d not find one.

 

i was meaning just a queen. if i find a colony, i want to make a natural setup for them in a glass container.


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#94 Offline AntsDakota - Posted December 9 2020 - 7:41 AM

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I found dozens of queens in my old yard.
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#95 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted December 9 2020 - 7:57 AM

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I found dozens of queens in my old yard.

they are not as common around this neighborhood. hopefully blacklighting will catch more.


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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#96 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted December 9 2020 - 10:19 AM

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A Ponera queen landed on my harm in broad daylight once and I was so confused. It was winged but it was almost like it fell out of a tree based on the force of it.


#97 Offline M_Ants - Posted December 9 2020 - 3:25 PM

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Some sad news...I found the exoskeleton of a worker today. Not sure if they killed it and ate it or if it died and then they ate. Hopefully it wasn't my fault. Either way I gave them a big springtail to make sure they are not hungry. I really hope the springtails start breeding soon because my booklice culture is basically gone. On the bright side they have three larvae. 


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#98 Offline TechAnt - Posted December 9 2020 - 6:13 PM

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nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


My Ants:
(x1) Campontous semitstaceus ~20 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Camponotus vicinus ~10 workers, 1 Queen (all black variety)
(x1) Tetramorium immigrans ~100 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Myrmercocystus mexicanus -1 Queen
(x2) Mymercocystus mimcus -1 Queen
(x1) Mymercocystus testaceus ~45 workers, 1 Queen

#99 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted December 10 2020 - 7:00 AM

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probably just a dead worker. my ants eat their dead workers.


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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#100 Offline M_Ants - Posted December 16 2020 - 12:04 PM

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Not much of an update on the Hypos but rather their food. My springtails I bought aren't doing to well (but I think I saw a baby??) so I took 6 and put them in a hydrostone setup. Hopefully they breed and can keep the culture going. I caught some springtails outside and put them in a charcoal setup. I also made a culture of springtails from my isopod setup. I'm feeding all my springtails nutritional yeast, long grain brown rice, and fish flakes. Hopefully out of all of these some succeed. My booklice are mostly gone and once they die out I'll probably never get another culture of them again. Sorry if you were hoping for an actual update. 


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