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Posted June 24 2015 - 6:38 PM
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1. Location of collection: Simi Valley, CA
2. Date of collection: 6-23-15
3. Habitat of collection: Foothills
4. Length (from head to gaster): 6mm
5. Color, hue, pattern and texture: Bright orange
6. Anything else distinctive: Both queens I caught were trying to infiltrate a colony of S.aurea.
7. Nest description: Unknown.
Edited by Gregory2455, June 24 2015 - 6:38 PM.
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Posted June 24 2015 - 7:19 PM
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Hope that colony makes it! You should try giving it S.aurea brood.
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Posted June 24 2015 - 9:55 PM
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Looks like S. amblychila to me.
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Posted June 25 2015 - 4:48 PM
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Hope that colony makes it! You should try giving it S.aurea brood.
I would but I do not have a colony and the only wild colony I know of lives under a crack in the pavement, so digging that up for brood would cause trouble. Plus, if these are parasitic, then they should accept S.xyloni brood and workers too, which they did.
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Posted June 25 2015 - 4:54 PM
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Nice. I get really excited when someone tries keeping an ant that not a lot of people have done successfully.
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