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OiledOlives Lasius Parasites (currently Lasius aphidicola)

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#21 Offline OiledOlives - Posted September 9 2022 - 6:05 AM

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Also Temnothorax cf. duloticus

The worker was attacking it so I removed the curvispinosus queen and the aggressive worker, leaving the cf duloticus queen with only 2 workers, 4 pupae, and 2 larvae.2eeef5294e1f1fd9dcfe1bbc9b76cd1c.jpg

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#22 Offline OiledOlives - Posted September 9 2022 - 2:13 PM

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Colony 1 response to an adult female cricket. They have eggs, pupae, and larvae of all instars. 07d718bbbe9935f008c575549876c56b.jpg

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#23 Offline OiledOlives - Posted September 21 2022 - 12:11 PM

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Colony 2 got bio workers

Colony 1 is still doing great. They can easily take 8 mealworms a day and drain sugar water from their two feeders.018e6c63a4cbbc659c7e1562eeaae107.jpg47746b8f3e886cd08c71b468bb2a20d5.jpg378957ced56bf39e7a891664e2fbb3ad.jpgfbf9e8d8f0187995bbed7ab5c9ab7b48.jpg

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#24 Offline AntsCali098 - Posted September 21 2022 - 12:19 PM

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Its cool to have multi-colored workers in one colony until they become all bio workers. 


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#25 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted September 22 2022 - 5:12 AM

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What founding method did you use for these parasitic lasius queens?


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#26 Offline OiledOlives - Posted September 22 2022 - 11:07 AM

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What founding method did you use for these parasitic lasius queens?

For the first queen, I added two or three workers, let her kill them, and then threw her and around 100 workers into a nest. I then boosted them with hundreds of americanus pupae throughout founding.

For the second queen, I just added around 200 pupae and 3 callows.

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#27 Offline AntsCali098 - Posted September 22 2022 - 6:23 PM

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How long did it take you to find all those pupae?

Edited by AntsCali098, September 22 2022 - 6:23 PM.

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#28 Offline OiledOlives - Posted September 23 2022 - 2:50 AM

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How long did it take you to find all those pupae?

Not long. Lasius americanus nests are pretty common under rocks, tiles, and in wood. I mostly stumbled across brood by accident.

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#29 Offline OiledOlives - Posted October 6 2022 - 6:36 PM

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Some old photos of colony 2 that I never uploaded here10582db526fc395e9dda1f5c83425b7b.jpg248f8876f491d76a808f486184125d9d.jpg

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#30 Offline OiledOlives - Posted October 18 2022 - 5:17 PM

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Lasius interjectus died in the fridge49319c1c3c21cbe36db43f10d8ddbc60.jpg

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#31 Offline BDantsalberta - Posted January 9 2023 - 10:37 AM

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Update?



#32 Offline OiledOlives - Posted January 9 2023 - 11:18 AM

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Update?

Nothing much has happened.

L. aphidicola colony 1 - still in diapause, only 2-300 workers have died so far

L. aphidicola colony 2 - has not started diapause yet, I am waiting for several pupae to eclose before I put them in

I have one L. aphidicola queen and two L. claviger queens without hosts that are also in diapause.


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#33 Offline BDantsalberta - Posted January 26 2023 - 1:29 PM

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I wish you luck with claviger! Can't wait to see how the founding goes!



#34 Offline OiledOlives - Posted June 7 2023 - 6:04 PM

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Lasius aphidicola colony 1:
Once I took them out of diapause, the larvae remained the same size no matter how much I fed them and most of the workers died after I forgot to water them twice. I then froze the queen and the last couple workers.

Lasius aphidicola colony 2:
After I took this colony out of the fridge, somebody wanted it and I don't really like formicines so I got rid of them.

I had 5 parasite queens in the fridge and I finally decided to grab some americanus pupae. I introduced 4 aphidicola and 1 claviger and one aphidicola queen died.

The three aphidi queens and 1 claviger are all introduced now and I am just waiting for the americanus pupae to eclose, which will happen in about 2-3 weeks. Until then, I just have to remember to keep them alive.fe1030dc7e7734f43a82f6fecf4b22e3.jpg

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#35 Offline Jonathan5608 - Posted June 7 2023 - 7:24 PM

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I’m gonna give parasitic lasius another shot next year

#36 Offline BDantsalberta - Posted June 7 2023 - 7:40 PM

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I currently have aphidicola, claviger, umbratus, and subumbratus all of which are doing decent. Love lasius parasites!



#37 Offline ANTdrew - Posted June 8 2023 - 2:01 AM

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I currently have aphidicola, claviger, umbratus, and subumbratus all of which are doing decent. Love lasius parasites!

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#38 Offline OiledOlives - Posted October 22 2023 - 1:41 PM

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I have no Lasius parasites right now (biggest aphidicola died out after diapause after the brood never grew + the queen never laid + I forgot to water their nest twice, I got scammed for the second one (other guy never shipped the ants that I traded him the aphidicola for), and the ones from this year were sold off/died while I was in Mississippi). 

I have some L. aphidicola queens that I found in claustral chambers now and are now in the fridge. I probably missed L. claviger flights this year but maybe I can get L. interjectus next week.



#39 Offline Jonathan5608 - Posted October 22 2023 - 3:34 PM

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I have no Lasius parasites right now (biggest aphidicola died out after diapause after the brood never grew + the queen never laid + I forgot to water their nest twice, I got scammed for the second one (other guy never shipped the ants that I traded him the aphidicola for), and the ones from this year were sold off/died while I was in Mississippi).

I have some L. aphidicola queens that I found in claustral chambers now and are now in the fridge. I probably missed L. claviger flights this year but maybe I can get L. interjectus next week.

claviger was flying like crazy a few weeks ago. I probably caught 40+ queens. Hopefully I can raise a few to workers. I had a aphidicola but she ate her eggs and died.

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#40 Offline ANTdrew - Posted October 22 2023 - 5:57 PM

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I have no Lasius parasites right now (biggest aphidicola died out after diapause after the brood never grew + the queen never laid + I forgot to water their nest twice, I got scammed for the second one (other guy never shipped the ants that I traded him the aphidicola for), and the ones from this year were sold off/died while I was in Mississippi).

I have some L. aphidicola queens that I found in claustral chambers now and are now in the fridge. I probably missed L. claviger flights this year but maybe I can get L. interjectus next week.

Warm weather next weekend may trigger some claviger flights I found one on Halloween a few years ago.
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