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7-31 and 8-1
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Congrats on the boosted worker!
Edited by Shazza, August 1 2021 - 2:20 AM.
yay!!!!!!!! nanitic!
1X Pogonomyrmex occidentalis 40-50 Workers
1X Solenopsis molesta 10 Workers (mono)
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Very nice! Hopefully they prosper!
Species being kept:
Solenopsis "plebeius", Camponotus maritimus, Formica cf. subaenescens, Formica cf. aerata, Lasius cf. americanus, Lasius aphidicola, Lasius brevicornis, Lasius nr claviger, Nylanderia vividula, Temnothorax nevadensis, Temnothorax chandleri, Temnothorax arboreus Solenopsis validiuscula, Solenopsis truncorum, Solenopsis xyloni, Formica perpilosa, Formica cf. lasiodes, Formica cf. neogagates Pogonomyrmex californicus, Pogonomyrmex salinus, and Myrmecocystus testaceus!!!!
Hoping to find this year:
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...
I just came back and immediately checked on the colony. They have 11 workers now and quite a bit of larvae. I'll update with pictures tomorrow morning, although with the state the tube is in, the quality probably won't be great.
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I just wanted to say that I have seen my Pogonomyrmex and formica subsericea feed an egg to a larvae. I think that's why often we will count like 30 eggs but end up with only 10 larvae. Perhaps eggs are just a simple way to store food and make ideal larvae snacks. Often ants separate the larvae from the eggs. I don't think that's just about temperature larva will eat eggs under some conditions, and I think this might be more normal than we think.
Just saying it's not always the queen who's doing the egg eating.
Don't know if this applies here of course. I just thought it was interesting that some of your eggs disappeared just as you got larva.
This queen is lovely and the photos are excellent. Looking forward to see more of the story. Congrats on the new ant!
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I like to make relaxing videos that capture the joy of watching ants.
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I just wanted to say that I have seen my Pogonomyrmex and formica subsericea feed an egg to a larvae. I think that's why often we will count like 30 eggs but end up with only 10 larvae. Perhaps eggs are just a simple way to store food and make ideal larvae snacks. Often ants separate the larvae from the eggs. I don't think that's just about temperature larva will eat eggs under some conditions, and I think this might be more normal than we think.
Just saying it's not always the queen who's doing the egg eating.
Don't know if this applies here of course. I just thought it was interesting that some of your eggs disappeared just as you got larva.
This queen is lovely and the photos are excellent. Looking forward to see more of the story. Congrats on the new ant!
Yeah I was more worried about the queen burning herself out than the brood actually disappearing lol. I've heard stories of queens that use up all of their energy to make pupae and then end up dying.
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YouTube video of clips from 8-8 to 8-9
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It's so cute how they have the same colors as the queen like little mini mes very "don't speak to me or my daughters ever again"
Starting this July I'm posting videos of my ants every week on youTube.
I like to make relaxing videos that capture the joy of watching ants.
If that sounds like your kind of thing... follow me >here<.
8-9
I'll be referencing different parts of the YouTube video from the last post and adding pictures here. I'm probably going to be relying on videos a lot more for coming updates because of how dirty their test tube is getting.
0:00: You can see the TON of larvae that they have (I stopped counting at 30). Most of these larvae were from before I even came back, and I'm a little confused about how they even found the food to raise these. I fed them some dubia on a piece of foil, and the workers loved it. They immediately dragged it back to the nest and began placing their larvae on it. This is probably the most receptive any of my formicine founding colonies have been to protein. The queen also has a third batch of eggs already...
1:01: More larvae eye candy
1:52: A lot of moving larvae
2:58: A second baby dubia that I fed today. Again, they were super interested in it and proceeded to move the dubia to the other end of the test tube basically immediately. I also gave them a piece of homegrown grapes which they liked as well. I'll probably stick to feeding these girls more solid sugar food until I can get them into a nest with a feeder. I tried feeding some sugar last night and 3 workers promptly decided to jump inside and get stuck. Thankfully, I pulled them out and their sisters cleaned them off
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It's so cute how they have the same colors as the queen like little mini mes very "don't speak to me or my daughters ever again"
Lmao. The workers will also get a fuller red head eventually.
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Oh man I'm so glad you could save them. It's wild how ants will manage to drown themselves in honey.
Starting this July I'm posting videos of my ants every week on youTube.
I like to make relaxing videos that capture the joy of watching ants.
If that sounds like your kind of thing... follow me >here<.
I just wanted to say that I have seen my Pogonomyrmex and formica subsericea feed an egg to a larvae. I think that's why often we will count like 30 eggs but end up with only 10 larvae. Perhaps eggs are just a simple way to store food and make ideal larvae snacks. Often ants separate the larvae from the eggs. I don't think that's just about temperature larva will eat eggs under some conditions, and I think this might be more normal than we think.
Just saying it's not always the queen who's doing the egg eating.
Don't know if this applies here of course. I just thought it was interesting that some of your eggs disappeared just as you got larva.
This queen is lovely and the photos are excellent. Looking forward to see more of the story. Congrats on the new ant!
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Wow I enjoyed reading through all this. VERY COOL!
8-25
Edited by sirjordanncurtis, August 24 2021 - 9:19 PM.
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You got lucky my queen decided to cause mass pupae failure. I'd be catching up to you.
9-6
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