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#1 Offline zA-Z0-9 - Posted August 3 2021 - 4:36 PM

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ok so after i found those 2 proceratium workers i was determined to find more and it took me a while but here it is 

 

 

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#2 Offline zA-Z0-9 - Posted August 3 2021 - 4:37 PM

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btw i think this one is for sure a queen she's much larger compared to the two workers i found btw if someone knows how to take care of these guys id be happy to know anything


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#3 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted August 3 2021 - 6:34 PM

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was there any other ants in the nest or wast it just her if it was just her research about as much as you possibly can on this sp because not much is known

heres a website on the suspected sp

https://www.antwiki....atium_pergandei

but i you found workers collect the one that were with her


1X Pogonomyrmex occidentalis 40-50 Workers

1X Solenopsis molesta 10 Workers (mono)

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#4 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 4 2021 - 12:18 PM

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I don’t know about this specific species, but I have heard that Proceratium are spider eggs specialists, so unless you can get lots of spider eggs I don’t think you would be able to keep them alive.
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#5 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted August 6 2021 - 3:32 AM

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No one has ever kept these. Pls do try for us :D

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Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

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Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): Camponotus irritans inferior, Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, Nylanderia sp., Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp.,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.

#6 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 6 2021 - 7:46 AM

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No one has ever kept these. Pls do try for us :D

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No one keeps them for a reason.
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#7 Offline NickAnter - Posted August 6 2021 - 8:17 AM

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Actually a couple people have kept them I believe, foremost among them PurdueEntomology.


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Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 


#8 Offline zA-Z0-9 - Posted August 6 2021 - 8:09 PM

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guys I'm totally embarassed its like i can't keep something alive to save my own life i tried to conduct a science expirement to see if i could feed her an egg that's easier to acquire so i started with roach eggs and i cut open the shell and left it with her for about 4 hours then the next day i tried Camponotus eggs (don't judge me) and  she didn't eat any of it so i settled with a few spider eggs and today she was dead i don't get why she died maybe it was karma getting me back for being a bad person all i know is I'm super pissed right now so don't judge me for my  decisions  i realised what i did was stupid and i don't need help beating myself up 

 

 

 

but dang man i felt like i was the spearhead of ant discovery and i went from the top to the bottom of the cool guy leaderboard  if you know what i mean this just totally frickin sucks 


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#9 Offline ponerinecat - Posted August 7 2021 - 8:41 AM

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She was a dealate too


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