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Jordan's Myrmecocystus placodops_02 Journal (now with workers)

Started By sirjordanncurtis , Jul 5 2021 12:39 AM
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#21 Offline sirjordanncurtis - Posted July 10 2021 - 1:27 PM

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Has about 30-ish eggs

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#22 Offline nurbs - Posted July 10 2021 - 1:47 PM

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Still no pewpee. Disappointed Jacob. Keep checking.


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#23 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted July 10 2021 - 1:55 PM

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No larvae yet? Weak :/


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#24 Offline B_rad0806 - Posted July 10 2021 - 11:17 PM

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I'd have workers by now only using 0.7% of my powers. C'mon Jacob 


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#25 Offline sirjordanncurtis - Posted July 11 2021 - 8:24 PM

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I'd have workers by now only using 0.7% of my powers. C'mon Jacob 

 

:boredom: sure brad

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#26 Offline sirjordanncurtis - Posted July 11 2021 - 8:29 PM

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Not very good pictures today, but I don't want to bother the queen too much. She has around 45-ish brood pieces, but apparently she's gonna eat a lot of them :(

On the other hand... LARVAE. She has ~4 ish small larvae from when I checked in the morning

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#27 Offline sirjordanncurtis - Posted July 12 2021 - 2:42 PM

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#28 Offline NickAnter - Posted July 12 2021 - 3:19 PM

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Nice! I see yelling and screaming at her worked.


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Myrmecocystus, Liometopum occidentale, Camponotus essigi, Camponotus fragilis, Manica bradleyi, Formica perpilosa, Pheidole hyatti, and a Parasitic Formica sp.

 

People are stupid. It explains a lot...

#29 Offline sirjordanncurtis - Posted July 13 2021 - 10:34 AM

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No new update today so here's yet another orange and black/gray? ant colony

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#30 Offline NickAnter - Posted July 13 2021 - 10:35 AM

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Nice! Do you know if that is sanguinea or rufa group?


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#31 Offline sirjordanncurtis - Posted July 13 2021 - 1:05 PM

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Nice! Do you know if that is sanguinea or rufa group?

 

The host workers are rufa group F. integroides. I keyed workers from where I caught the queen and they come out to sanguinea group F. aserva


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#32 Offline NickAnter - Posted July 13 2021 - 1:12 PM

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Ah, OK, I was wondering about that, the workers looked considerably different. The queen looks very similar to the sanguinea group Formica I see in the Eastern Sierras.


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#33 Offline sirjordanncurtis - Posted July 14 2021 - 8:01 AM

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Ah, OK, I was wondering about that, the workers looked considerably different. The queen looks very similar to the sanguinea group Formica I see in the Eastern Sierras

 

Yeah the ones in the eastern sierras are most likely aserva as well.


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#34 Offline NickAnter - Posted July 14 2021 - 8:07 AM

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Ill never forgive myself for letting those queens go...


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#35 Offline sirjordanncurtis - Posted July 14 2021 - 8:08 AM

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The brood pile keeps getting bigger :D
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#36 Offline sirjordanncurtis - Posted July 14 2021 - 4:24 PM

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I actually took this video yesterday but I didn't upload it until today. Here is the queen caring for her brood from two angles :D SOOO PRETTY


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#39 Offline sirjordanncurtis - Posted July 15 2021 - 9:09 AM

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#40 Offline nurbs - Posted July 15 2021 - 9:50 AM

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What if you check tomorrow and all the larva will be gone? Will you cry?
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