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#1 Offline Dry_Twig - Posted March 2 2021 - 4:12 PM

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1. Glendale-ish area

2. 3/2/2021
3.Under a rock near a lawn 
4. About 5 mm
5. Dark black, a little shiny, pretty small.

6. 2 petiole nodes
7. Curled up into a ball when picked up
8. Just a queen

9. Not sure, found under a rock with no wings and no visible brood.

10.

Use this 3 queen 3/2/2021
Use this 2  queen 3/2/2021
Use this  queen 3/2/2021

 


My ants: One small(0 worker) Solenopsis xyloni colony- Queen Colony died  :*( 

Link: https://www.formiculture.com/topic/14139-dry-twigs-solenopsis-sp-journal/

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#2 Offline Manitobant - Posted March 2 2021 - 4:30 PM

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This one kinda has me stumped. For one, it could be veromessor andrei, but it doesn’t look quite right. It could also be temnothorax, but those are much smaller than 5mm (unless your size estimates are way off, cause it does look awfully like these). Myrmica is also a likely possibility, but the large sized gaster is really throwing me off.

Edited by Manitobant, March 2 2021 - 4:34 PM.


#3 Offline antsandmore - Posted March 2 2021 - 4:40 PM

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This one kinda has me stumped. For one, it could be veromessor andrei, but it doesn’t look quite right. It could also be temnothorax, but those are much smaller than 5mm (unless your size estimates are way off, cause it does look awfully like these). Myrmica is also a likely possibility, but the large sized gaster is really throwing me off.

I would like to think temnothorax. I am pretty sure they are a good guess. 


also, i'm not sure if veromessor would hide under rocks, but wouldn't they rather dig a hole so that it would be easier when they need to forage for seeds?(or do they forage i forgot)


Ants I am keeping:

 none for now, planning on being more active this year


#4 Offline NickAnter - Posted March 2 2021 - 5:30 PM

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I'm going to say this is Temnothorax. My queens are about 5mm, and many tricarinatus group species are larger than Eastern species.

 

Either that or this is a Stenamma species.


Edited by NickAnter, March 2 2021 - 5:31 PM.

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). 


#5 Offline Dry_Twig - Posted March 3 2021 - 11:36 AM

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Are there any special care tips for founding Temnothorax or do I just put the queen in the test tube and leave her alone for a while? Since they are so small, do they need some substrate? Thanks for all the help everyone.


Edited by Dry_Twig, March 3 2021 - 11:37 AM.

My ants: One small(0 worker) Solenopsis xyloni colony- Queen Colony died  :*( 

Link: https://www.formiculture.com/topic/14139-dry-twigs-solenopsis-sp-journal/

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#6 Offline AleeGuy - Posted March 3 2021 - 11:50 AM

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Are there any special care tips for founding Temnothorax or do I just put the queen in the test tube and leave her alone for a while? Since they are so small, do they need some substrate? Thanks for all the help everyone.

Just in a test tube setup with no substrate, and they are fully claustral so yes leave her alone.

#7 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted March 3 2021 - 12:56 PM

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A strategy I came up with that you may want to try is to put some tubing in the test tube that goes up against the cotton so the queen can drink, while the actual test tube serves as a kind of outworld. Eventually the colony would outgrow the small tube and probably use the whole test tube, in which case you could use an actual outworld.


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#8 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted March 3 2021 - 1:23 PM

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A strategy I came up with that you may want to try is to put some tubing in the test tube that goes up against the cotton so the queen can drink, while the actual test tube serves as a kind of outworld. Eventually the colony would outgrow the small tube and probably use the whole test tube, in which case you could use an actual outworld.

That sounds cool, I’ll probably try that if I ever get any Temnothorax queens 


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