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Cheeto's Terrific Trapjaws (Odontomachus clarus) (Updated 8/4)


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#41 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted May 31 2021 - 4:32 PM

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Update? did this colony die?


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#42 Offline CheetoLord02 - Posted June 20 2021 - 8:37 PM

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I know everybody's been wanting an update, but you probably won't be too happy with me for this. A few months ago I had let the nest get too dry and all of the workers died. Thankfully the queen survived, and I got her moved into a test tube, but I kinda just threw her on the backburner for a while and only fed her enough to stay alive and not raise any new brood. She laid eggs a few times, but never past that. Feeding daily in a test tube is a nightmare, and stresses the queen out super unnecessarily. 

So, to try and give this queen a chance again, I decided to experiment with a type of setup I've seen used a fair bit, specifically in the Asian antkeeping community with their Ponerines. Some of you will probably recognize it:
 

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It's essentially just a dirt setup with an artificial chamber, but the creation of a chamber seems to encourage the queen not to dig, and she's gotten settled quite nicely in there and laid 3 new eggs. I even see her foraging once in a while, and have been offering fruit flies accordingly. Hopefully this setup will allow her to refound, and if so we can get this colony going again. I'm still not a huge fan of the primitive ants like these and may end up selling them down the line, but for now she's still here and kicking.


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#43 Offline CheetoLord02 - Posted August 4 2021 - 10:48 AM

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Unfortunately the old queen died on me when I went out of state for a few weeks. Luckily I have since caught 2 new O. clarus queens, and will be raising them. One has 3 eggs and one has none, so not much to show at the moment, but I'll add some pics once they get significant progress going.


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#44 Offline FloridaAnts - Posted May 28 2022 - 2:45 PM

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Update?

Odontomachus ruginodis males flew last night in Florida, any flights in AZ?

Edited by FloridaAnts, May 28 2022 - 2:45 PM.


#45 Offline CheetoLord02 - Posted May 28 2022 - 2:54 PM

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Major flights in AZ won't be happening for another 4 weeks minimum, or whenever our summer monsoon season starts.

The O. clarus in this journal died, although I now have O. desertorum that I could possibly consider reviving this journal for.


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#46 Offline FloridaAnts - Posted May 28 2022 - 3:06 PM

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All Odontomachus are the same for me, as for my local species, they all look the same. O. Relictus, ruginodis, Brunneus.




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