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Solenopsis Invicta - A Tale of Two Colonies


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#1 Offline Flu1d - Posted January 6 2023 - 10:08 PM

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Edited by Flu1d, January 7 2023 - 2:08 PM.


#2 Offline Ant-nig321 - Posted January 6 2023 - 10:17 PM

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Hope they live up to your expectation.

#3 Offline Flu1d - Posted January 6 2023 - 10:25 PM

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Hope they live up to your expectation.


I'm sure CoC will be fine, hoping BB has a strong comeback.

#4 Offline ANTdrew - Posted January 7 2023 - 2:47 AM

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If you paste a YouTube link, it will imbed.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#5 Offline LowQualityAnts - Posted January 7 2023 - 5:18 AM

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Is that a mite or water on BB?

#6 Offline Flu1d - Posted January 7 2023 - 10:57 AM

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Is that a mite or water on BB?


I have yet to see any mites, where are you referring to?

#7 Offline AntsTopia - Posted January 7 2023 - 11:39 AM

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I have a invicta colony and I'll give you some advice. (NEVER BROOD BOOST INVICTA QUEENS)
3 reasons for this

1) invicta queens when they founds are vicious and always hungry for whatever they can get to lay more eggs, so they will eat brood

2) collecting brood from a colony near your neighbrhood is not good because it could affect whether not you catch more invicta queens

3) Florida has 3 diffrent types of fire ants so you could mistake xyloni for invicta, and fire ant queens are very particular on brood

These are all my expirences on brood boosting invicta
Plus u don't need to boost them they grow so so so fast on their own and their founding rate is almost 100 percent guaranteed. So anyway good luck with ur colony.

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#8 Offline Ant-nig321 - Posted January 7 2023 - 11:50 AM

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You guys are luky to have S.xyloni or invicta while am stuck here with BIFA,no fair.

Edited by Ant-nig321, January 7 2023 - 12:37 PM.


#9 Offline AntsTopia - Posted January 7 2023 - 12:05 PM

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BIFA grow and have bigger majors I think than invicta or xyloni. Maybe even bigger than geminata, and you have geminata I think in Africa. PLUS YOU LIVE IN AFRICA! Like what ant you don't have that isn't cool! Honestly bro I would kill to be in Africa right now.

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#10 Offline Ant-nig321 - Posted January 7 2023 - 12:21 PM

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Yeah geminata are present.the species here may look cool but don't speak so much about them,their stings/bites are PAINFUL especially Dorylus which severally invade my house but that gives me the opportunity to see their queen.my favourite species here are Meranoplus,Pheidole,Nesomyrmex,Tetraponera and Discothyrea,their appearance truly caught my attention.You also have cool species there am i right?

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#11 Offline Flu1d - Posted January 7 2023 - 2:05 PM

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I have a invicta colony and I'll give you some advice. (NEVER BROOD BOOST INVICTA QUEENS)
3 reasons for this

1) invicta queens when they founds are vicious and always hungry for whatever they can get to lay more eggs, so they will eat brood

2) collecting brood from a colony near your neighbrhood is not good because it could affect whether not you catch more invicta queens

3) Florida has 3 diffrent types of fire ants so you could mistake xyloni for invicta, and fire ant queens are very particular on brood

These are all my expirences on brood boosting invicta
Plus u don't need to boost them they grow so so so fast on their own and their founding rate is almost 100 percent guaranteed. So anyway good luck with ur colony.


I highly doubt I would mistake xyloni for invicta, and that's the beauty of experimenting with invicta.. They're extremely replaceable, invasive and easy to raise. You made all of my points with that post, thank you for that.

#12 Offline AntsTopia - Posted January 8 2023 - 8:04 AM

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Your welcome, and why is the first post "f"?

Edited by AntsTopia, January 8 2023 - 8:05 AM.

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Atta Mexicana x 1

Messor Barbarus x 1

 

Ants are just better.





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