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#81 Offline SYUTEO - Posted July 31 2021 - 7:01 PM

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Anochetus finally has a worker! Pics coming very soon (It's hard to take a picture of them because they keep hiding away from me.). Here's how long it took from egg to worker: egg to larva 3 days, larva to pupa 7 days, pupa to worker 14 days, egg to worker 24 days.


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#82 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted July 31 2021 - 10:45 PM

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Anochetus finally has a worker! Pics coming very soon (It's hard to take a picture of them because they keep hiding away from me.). Here's how long it took from egg to worker: egg to larva 3 days, larva to pupa 7 days, pupa to worker 14 days, egg to worker 24 days.

Now, find me a queen. Jk

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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Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): Camponotus irritans inferior, Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, Nylanderia sp., Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#83 Offline SYUTEO - Posted July 31 2021 - 11:52 PM

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Anochetus finally has a worker! Pics coming very soon (It's hard to take a picture of them because they keep hiding away from me.). Here's how long it took from egg to worker: egg to larva 3 days, larva to pupa 7 days, pupa to worker 14 days, egg to worker 24 days.

Now, find me a queen. Jk

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Even if I am able to find another queen I probably not able to give it to you because of MCO. Lol I know you're just joking.  :D


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#84 Offline SYUTEO - Posted August 4 2021 - 4:21 AM

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Everyone, Technomyrmex are back!!! So, my dad bought some mangosteen (a type of fruit) and with it come with a LOT of ants, I found only Dolichoderus and Technomyrmex workers but after a little while, I spotted a Technomyrmex alate and I quickly checked all the fruits, and in one of them there was a nest of Technomyrmex with brood and alates! At first, I thought this was only a satellite nest so I put all the ants in a petri dish to see if there was a queen. After most of the ants and their brood are placed in the petri dish, I started to worry that there was no queen and all of a sudden she appeared. Right now they are still in the petri dish but I will move them to a test tube later. The colony consists of 10-15 workers, 1 queen, 5 female alates, 1 male alate, some brood (most of them are female alate pupae and young larvae) and possibly intercastes.


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#85 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted August 4 2021 - 5:36 AM

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Everyone, Technomyrmex are back!!! So, my dad bought some mangosteen (a type of fruit) and with it come with a LOT of ants, I found only Dolichoderus and Technomyrmex workers but after a little while, I spotted a Technomyrmex alate and I quickly checked all the fruits, and in one of them there was a nest of Technomyrmex with brood and alates! At first, I thought this was only a satellite nest so I put all the ants in a petri dish to see if there was a queen. After most of the ants and their brood are placed in the petri dish, I started to worry that there was no queen and all of a sudden she appeared. Right now they are still in the petri dish but I will move them to a test tube later. The colony consists of 10-15 workers, 1 queen, 5 female alates, 1 male alate, some brood (most of them are female alate pupae and young larvae) and possibly intercastes.

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#86 Offline SYUTEO - Posted August 4 2021 - 8:52 PM

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Now I did promise all of you pictures of the Anochetus so here it is. 

Edit: In case you don't know, the worker in the pic is her second worker, not her first. (It's hard to get a pic of the first one

 

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And here's a pic of the new Technomyrmex (they're still living in a part of the mangosteen (I don't know what that part is called).). I wonder if this colony is even going to survive. :thinking:  :/ .

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#87 Offline SYUTEO - Posted August 5 2021 - 10:28 PM

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Checked the Monomorium today, no workers yet but two of her pupae has darkened and should be eclosing soon.


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#88 Offline SYUTEO - Posted August 8 2021 - 9:10 PM

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I know it isn't Friday yet but since her pupae has darkened a lot, I decided to check her a bit earlier just so I know when the workers are going to eclose and that they won't have to starve until the next Friday which means they might eat their brood (I've experienced it before). And guess what? I saw three workers! And they are tiny, only about 2-3mm long.


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#89 Offline SYUTEO - Posted August 13 2021 - 11:46 PM

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Not much going on right now, the only updates are: Monomorium has a new worker, Anochetus now has about 6-8 workers and the queen laid a few more eggs, and Camponotus irritans now has at least 30 workers, unfortunately, mites still present, due to lockdown I couldn't afford anything to stop the mites.


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#90 Offline SYUTEO - Posted August 14 2021 - 8:44 PM

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Sadly, Anochetus is also confirmed to have mites, as you saw in my previous post, I couldn't buy anything to kill the mites. But, since many of the other ant colonies with mites are still alive and well (in fact, C. irritans has mites when the colony only has 12-14 workers and now the colony has at least 30 workers), the mites may not be lethal to them.


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#91 Offline SYUTEO - Posted August 16 2021 - 7:02 PM

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Update: Monomorium laid a LOT more eggs! At least 20 eggs. I will upload pictures very soon.


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#92 Offline SYUTEO - Posted August 16 2021 - 10:41 PM

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Here's the pics:

 

Monomorium, the colony currently has six workers and for some reason, they positioned the eggs quite far away from the rest of the brood, possibly due to humidity.

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Camponotus irritans, this is how big this colony is now.

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#93 Offline SYUTEO - Posted August 19 2021 - 3:15 AM

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Camponotus parius is producing alates, again...


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#94 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted August 19 2021 - 6:43 PM

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lucky... now i rlly want anochetus... maybe my winged philidris will surprise me??


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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, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): Camponotus irritans inferior, Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, Nylanderia sp., Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#95 Offline SYUTEO - Posted August 19 2021 - 6:53 PM

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lucky... now i rlly want anochetus... maybe my winged philidris will surprise me??

Hopefully she will.


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#96 Offline SYUTEO - Posted August 20 2021 - 7:59 PM

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Unfortunately, one of the Crematogaster queens didn't make it, guess she was infertile.


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#97 Offline ANTdrew - Posted August 21 2021 - 4:39 AM

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Unfortunately, one of the Crematogaster queens didn't make it, guess she was infertile.

Dang, sorry.
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#98 Offline SYUTEO - Posted August 21 2021 - 5:57 AM

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Unfortunately, one of the Crematogaster queens didn't make it, guess she was infertile.

Dang, sorry.

 

Yeah, especially since Crematogaster is not very easy to find in where I live.


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#99 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted August 21 2021 - 6:29 AM

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Unfortunately, one of the Crematogaster queens didn't make it, guess she was infertile.

Dang, sorry.

 

Yeah, especially since Crematogaster is not very easy to find in where I live.

 

Crematogaster are impossible to find where i live lol


1X Pogonomyrmex occidentalis 40-50 Workers

1X Solenopsis molesta 10 Workers (mono)

Ants I Want: Crematogaster sp, Camponotus Sp., Ponera Pennsylvanica, Mymercocystus sp.

 

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#100 Offline SYUTEO - Posted August 22 2021 - 12:11 AM

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My dad went to my grandma's house yesterday and he caught a small, black Polyrhachis queen! She still has wings on but let's hope she's still a fertile queen. :)


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