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OiledOlives Lasius Parasites (currently Lasius aphidicola)

Started By OiledOlives , Jan 14 2022 2:08 PM
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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!


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