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Anyone selling Pogonomyrmex?

Started By Swirlysnowflake , Dec 8 2020 7:35 PM

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#1 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted December 8 2020 - 7:35 PM

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Hi, looking for queens with brood of Pogonomyrmex. I'll pay shipping or do local pickup if you are in Bay Area (around Sunnyale/Cupertino)

(Only looking for queens without workers)

 

 

 

*and yes I'm posting a lot of looking for ads, but no one really has the ants I'm looking for most of the time, so i assure you i am not purchasing 21838 ant colonies :)*


Edited by Swirlysnowflake, December 8 2020 - 7:59 PM.

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#2 Offline Devi - Posted December 8 2020 - 7:40 PM

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I get it.  I've made a bunch of inquiries but no one has responded.  Lol


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#3 Offline JenC - Posted December 8 2020 - 7:53 PM

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A little too late to be asking for those. Unless you like infertile queens


Current Colonies:
1x Camponotus Vicinus (3 Workers)

Single Queens:
3x Camponotus Clarithorax
4x Camponotus Maritimus
5x Camponotus Ca02
7x Camponotus Sansabeanus
1x Myrmecocustus Testaceus
3x Prenolepis Imparis

#4 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted December 8 2020 - 7:58 PM

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A little too late to be asking for those. Unless you like infertile queens

Oh, lol. Will there be single queens of any Pogonomyrmex queens?


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#5 Offline JenC - Posted December 8 2020 - 8:00 PM

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Not for a few months


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Current Colonies:
1x Camponotus Vicinus (3 Workers)

Single Queens:
3x Camponotus Clarithorax
4x Camponotus Maritimus
5x Camponotus Ca02
7x Camponotus Sansabeanus
1x Myrmecocustus Testaceus
3x Prenolepis Imparis

#6 Offline Spazmops - Posted December 9 2020 - 6:57 AM

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A little too late to be asking for those. Unless you like infertile queens

Oh, lol. Will there be single queens of any Pogonomyrmex queens?

 

No, only small colonies.


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1 Formica fusca group- 0 workers

1 Tetramorium immigrans colony-20 workers

1 Dorymyrmex insanus- 1 queen, used to have workers

 

1 large P. occidentalis colony- around 50 workers, plenty of brood

 

 

#7 Offline Guest_StrickyAnts_* - Posted December 9 2020 - 1:04 PM

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why don't ya get colonies? lol


#8 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted December 9 2020 - 2:11 PM

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why don't ya get colonies? lol

I want to try founding from a queen. Also, single queens cost wayyy less :P


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#9 Offline AntsDakota - Posted December 9 2020 - 2:19 PM

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why don't ya get colonies? lol

I want to try founding from a queen. Also, single queens cost wayyy less :P
If that’s the case you should buy two or three queens just to be safe.
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#10 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted December 9 2020 - 2:41 PM

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why don't ya get colonies? lol

I want to try founding from a queen. Also, single queens cost wayyy less :P
If that’s the case you should buy two or three queens just to be safe.

 

Yeah :) I've found a seller of pogonomyrmex subdentatus and I'm going to purchase most likely 3


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#11 Offline Devi - Posted December 9 2020 - 2:45 PM

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why don't ya get colonies? lol

I want to try founding from a queen. Also, single queens cost wayyy less :P
If that’s the case you should buy two or three queens just to be safe.

 

 

Absolutely agreed.


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#12 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted December 9 2020 - 4:56 PM

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why don't ya get colonies? lol

I want to try founding from a queen. Also, single queens cost wayyy less :P
If that’s the case you should buy two or three queens just to be safe.

 

 

Absolutely agreed.

 

Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a colony that already has workers instead of 2-3 queens that may or may not get workers?


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#13 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted December 9 2020 - 5:04 PM

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why don't ya get colonies? lol

I want to try founding from a queen. Also, single queens cost wayyy less :P
If that’s the case you should buy two or three queens just to be safe.

 

 

Absolutely agreed.

 

Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a colony that already has workers instead of 2-3 queens that may or may not get workers?

 

True, but the main reason I'm getting single queens is because I want to "found" the colony. In my ~2 years of ant keeping I've only caught and founded one colony (all the others I've purchased as colonies with workers lol)


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#14 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted December 10 2020 - 7:02 AM

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founding colonies is a difficult process. be prepared for lots of die offs.

 

 


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