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Camponotus vicinus Journal (5-31-2015)

Started By Wamdar , May 31 2015 4:49 AM

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#21 Offline Wamdar - Posted June 11 2015 - 6:20 PM

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6-11-15:

She's added to her pile and is hanging out, there was some condensation on the surface of the plastic, its a little fuzzy because of that.

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#22 Offline dspdrew - Posted June 11 2015 - 6:36 PM

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Very nice pictures.

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#23 Offline Wamdar - Posted June 12 2015 - 5:46 PM

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Playing with the lighting a little. This lens looks like a telescope when fully drawn so you need powerful lighting at the focal point.

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#24 Offline Jonathan21700 - Posted June 13 2015 - 10:38 AM

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Amazing photos!

#25 Offline nurbs - Posted June 29 2015 - 3:49 AM

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What is interesting is that my C. vicinus eggs are white. I have never noticed them being yellow.

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#26 Offline Miles - Posted June 29 2015 - 5:44 AM

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What is interesting is that my C. vicinus eggs are white. I have never noticed them being yellow.

My C. vicinus always lay yellow eggs. It's a common occurrence in the Camponotus genus, but I'm failing to recall why.

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#27 Offline Wamdar - Posted June 29 2015 - 10:39 AM

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Most of the eggs have turned into very large larvae!

#28 Offline cpman - Posted June 30 2015 - 2:06 PM

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My C. vicinus always lay yellow eggs. It's a common occurrence in the Camponotus genus, but I'm failing to recall why.

One of my Camponotus queen lays amber colored eggs -- almost orange. Another lays pure white ones. I've got no idea why either.

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#29 Offline LC3 - Posted June 30 2015 - 8:32 PM

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My C. modoc lays white eggs with yellow in the middle. Nice ants by the way!

#30 Offline Wamdar - Posted July 16 2015 - 9:09 PM

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Updated 7-16-15: Workers are about to emerge any day from the cocoons!

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#31 Offline BugFinder - Posted July 16 2015 - 9:41 PM

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So it looks like you went about 6 weeks from eggs laid to eclosing. Does that sound right?

Wonderful photos btw. I had a terrible time trying to photograph my ants in the talus and never got any decent shots. Well done!

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#32 Offline drtrmiller - Posted July 17 2015 - 1:37 AM

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Very nice photos.

I wonder how much light you need to get those shots inside the cave?

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#33 Offline nurbs - Posted July 17 2015 - 2:00 AM

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nice images!

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#34 Offline Wamdar - Posted July 17 2015 - 6:01 AM

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I use a very high powered flashlight to take these pictures. Its almost blinding its so bright but through the lens its perfect! Its dual 18650 LED, Fenix tk35

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#35 Offline nurbs - Posted July 17 2015 - 6:29 AM

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I use a very high powered flashlight to take these pictures. Its almost blinding its so bright but through the lens its perfect! Its dual 18650 LED, Fenix tk35

Hey that's what I do too! I have a Fenix Tk35, a Jetbeam, and a Surefire.

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#36 Offline Wamdar - Posted July 17 2015 - 7:01 AM

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I was curious about the same thing bugfinder. They seemed to sit as eggs for quite some time. She laid a good 10 eggs and then for a few weeks they just sat there. Eventually I looked after being busy and they had turned to a pile of larvae with a cocoon. There was a couple new eggs but those seemed to have turned into larvae faster than the previous set of eggs. When I went to take these newer shots, most of the newer eggs had turned to small larvae which seemed way faster than the other eggs. Just a thought.