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AntBoi3030’s tiny temnothorax journal (acorn ants)

Started By AntBoi3030 , Jun 27 2021 3:22 AM

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#1 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted June 27 2021 - 3:22 AM

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I caught a lot of these last night and I made five colony’s. Two two queen colony’s two one queen colony’s and one three queen colony. I already have a thread on an existing colony but I think it is always fun to watch queen progress (right?). I bee love these are all temnothorax curvispinosus

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My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#2 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted June 28 2021 - 5:12 AM

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I caught a lot last night more than before. This night there was a light spruced that had an orange head and thorax but had a yellow castor with a black stripe. On top of temnothorax I coughs a colobopsis queen and a camponotus castaneus queen ehich was awesome. I am done catching temnothorax queens this year because right have over a dozen colony’s now lol. I will be moving most of these into acorns when they have some workers and putting them in the woods. I plan on keeping one colony in half an acorn so pressed up against the glass we can see inside. It will be in a terrarium but i still don’t know how I would hydrate the acorn.

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My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#3 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted June 28 2021 - 5:26 AM

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check out this journal it might help https://www.formicul...llaris-journal/


Edited by Antkeeper01, June 28 2021 - 5:26 AM.

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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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#4 Offline ANTdrew - Posted June 28 2021 - 6:00 AM

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Just sprinkle some water on the acorn from time to time. I doubt these need that much moisture.
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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#5 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted June 28 2021 - 5:42 PM

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Anyone know this exact species of temnothorax?

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Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#6 Offline CatsnAnts - Posted June 29 2021 - 10:37 AM

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Anyone know this exact species of temnothorax?

It’s an undescribed species of Temnothorax. There are some people currently working on describing it, here is the ant web page for it:

https://www.antweb.o...03&rank=species

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#7 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted June 29 2021 - 10:45 AM

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Awesome, thanks
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My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#8 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted June 29 2021 - 11:06 AM

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cool i wish i had an undescribed sp


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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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#9 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted June 29 2021 - 11:59 AM

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I finished the terrarium. It has a base of potting soils and soils from my yard that I sterilized. I added some fake plants and put in half an acorn and drilled a hole in the top. Chick also would be proud :D. It is really hard to get a good picture of inside the acorn with a white lighthouse so I’ll try to get a better one when there are ants inside. here are some way overproduced photos of a 4x4 inch terrarium lol.

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Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#10 Offline ANTdrew - Posted June 29 2021 - 3:29 PM

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That’s cool. I’d try something like this if I didn’t have five million other tiny ants.
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#11 Offline NoveltyAntsYT - Posted June 29 2021 - 5:52 PM

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Wish we had acorn ants here in CA. Nice setup, 


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#12 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted June 29 2021 - 6:15 PM

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CA has plenty of Temnothorax more than us in Co i i collected multiple colonies over the weekend


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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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#13 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted July 1 2021 - 3:17 AM

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They all laid out eggs! They single queens have around three. And the multi queen ones have over 10. I’ll get some photos tomorrow or tonight
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My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#14 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted July 1 2021 - 3:18 AM

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They all laid out eggs! They single queens have around three. And the multi queen ones have over 10. I’ll get some photos tomorrow or tonight

Hope u succeed

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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.

#15 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted July 9 2021 - 5:04 PM

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Small update: lost one winged queen, all the others have eggs! Temnothorax curvispinosis seem to have laid the most
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My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#16 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted July 10 2021 - 3:43 AM

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I’ve diced to included my temnothorax colony that isn’t in the founding stage and have around 80 workers. They were collected a few months ago at 30 workers and I just moved them into their new acrylic nest! They look awesome inside it. :D

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#17 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted July 10 2021 - 3:46 AM

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I’ve diced to included my temnothorax colony that isn’t in the founding stage and have around 80 workers. They were collected a few months ago at 30 workers and I just moved them into their new acrylic nest! They look awesome inside it. :D

This is too cute to be true. Sucks to not have these here in southeast asia.

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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.

#18 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted July 10 2021 - 3:52 AM

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Yea the nest is tiny I think they’ll appreciate the smaller nest than a test tube. It’s I cozy space for them

My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#19 Offline cap_backfire - Posted July 10 2021 - 6:22 AM

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Those acrylic nests are so rad.   I'm definitely going to get one for the thief ants I am going to try to get next month when they do their flights.   I just love the striking 'red on white" they have going.   So cool.   
I also love how they all just snuggle up to each other in a tight ball.   Must be how they survive in an acorn in the wild!   Thanks for posting!


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#20 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted July 10 2021 - 7:17 AM

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Thief ants have started flying here I caught one a few days ago!
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My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

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