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#1 Offline johcastro - Posted June 30 2021 - 10:11 PM

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Hello, my name is Johnny, I'm "starting" on formiculture, and I think I may have started a little bit too strong this summer.....

 

Last year I started with a Solenopsis queen, all good until I got about 20 workers... seems like I left the cotton a little bit too loose after feeding them cuz, the next morning there was not a soul in the test tube.... So I decided not to let it happen again, bought a 50 test tube pack locally and got everything ready, moved my office ( I work from home) to my basement (not an actual basement but sort of, with good ventilation and a nice view of the mountains), bought a UV lamp and last May I started turning it on with a LED saver light at the same time, long history short... I filled out the 50 tubes in about 1 month, so, I gave away the repeat ones, and kept one or 2 colonies from the uniques I got, so far I have 4 camponotus queens with eggs, 1 solenopsis queen with eggs, 3 black crematogaster queens with eggs, 3 colobopsis (these are the ones I'm most excited about) with eggs, 3 yellow crematogaster queens (these are the second ones I'm most excited about) and a bunch of queens with no eggs that I will not mention....

 

I'll post pictures for all egged queens on sunday when I check on them.


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#2 Online ZTYguy - Posted June 30 2021 - 10:15 PM

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Welcome to the forum. You should right a journal on all these queens. Have fun here. :)


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Ant Keeping Since June 2018
Currently Keeping:
A. versicolor, C. us-ca02, C. yogi, C. Vicinus, C. laevigatus, C. clarithorax, C. maritimus, C. ocreatus, M. mexicanus, M. placodops 01, V. andrei, V. pergandei, N. cockerelli, P. barbata, P. montanus

Hoping to Catch This season:

M. romanei, M. placodops 02, P. imberbiculus, Polyergus sp., F. moki, A. megomatta, Cyphomyrmex sp.,Temnothorax sp.


#3 Offline johcastro - Posted June 30 2021 - 11:23 PM

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Welcome to the forum. You should right a journal on all these queens. Have fun here. :)

 

Just kidding... already got lots of pictures but I'll post only one of each jajajaj, the latest one I took, I also started the Colobopsis Journal, cuz here in costa rica, the species is a) Not officially recognized or its not supposed to be here and B) well.. there is NO information at all regarding the species if its native...



#4 Offline johcastro - Posted June 30 2021 - 11:30 PM

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Some of these I havent been able to identify yet, specially the Camponotus, and the tiny mini pheidole that is the size of a Solenoptis gaster, also, the Yellow crematogaster got me in love because those are about 1/3rd the size of the regular black ones.
 
Solenopsis  Pheidole Tazita Mini  Crematogaster Amarilla 2
 
Camponotus 6  Camponotus 1
 
Camponotus 5b  Camponotus 5
 
Camponotus 4  Camponotus 4b
 
Camponotus 3 Camponotus 3b
 
Camponotus 2b  Camponotus 2
 

Also here is some videos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you enjoy as much as I do, if by any chance you got any idea on what sp are these.. you are welcome to let me know, also, I didn't post any of the Colobopsis because I got a separate album for them:

 

https://www.formicul...obopsis-jtl035/

2 Eggs 1 Queen
Album: Colobopsis JTL)#%
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Edited by johcastro, June 30 2021 - 11:36 PM.


#5 Offline gcsnelling - Posted July 1 2021 - 3:30 AM

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For information on ants in your area, the ultimate web resource is "the ants of Costa Rica" by Jack Longino.

 

https://ants.biology...fCostaRica.html


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#6 Offline johcastro - Posted July 1 2021 - 2:34 PM

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For information on ants in your area, the ultimate web resource is "the ants of Costa Rica" by Jack Longino.

 

https://ants.biology...fCostaRica.html

 

Thank you, love the pictures, but I wasnt able to find the ones I havent been able to identify unfurtunatelly.






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