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ANTS_KL's Ant Journal!

Started By ANTS_KL , Jun 17 2021 4:01 AM

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#101 Offline ANTdrew - Posted March 25 2023 - 1:30 AM

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We need photos of such cool ants, even if you’re not fond of taking them!

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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#102 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted May 25 2023 - 10:09 PM

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UPDATE
Saturday (26/5/2023)

It's been another 2 months, sorry about that. I've just not been bothered to check this forum for quite some time now.
So, all of my founding queens from the previous post have workers excluding the Carebara spp. and Lophomyrmex sp.
They've all been growing nicely, and I've gotten an additional few queens and colonies to share about, as well as a few losses here and there.
New colonies:
Anochetus sp.- They have been growing slowly and nicely in my care.
Echinopla sp.- This queen was caught not long ago, and has a batch of oddly pink eggs.
Crematogaster cf. ferrarii- Queen was caught last month, new workers are enclosing now. Hoping these will grow and replace my Oecophylla as the most entertaining and active colony.

Losses:
O. smaragdina- Was nice having them around, but the queen has recently died.
Cardiocondyla sp.- Queens stopped laying eggs one day. Not sure why.

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Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

YouTube: https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)

Currently kept ant species: Camponotus parius, Ooceraea biroi, Carebara cf. diversa, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma), Tetraponera nigra, Polyrhachis cf. abdominalis, Lophomyrmex sp., Echinopla cf. striata, Anochetus sp., Crematogaster cf. ferrarii, Pheidole parva