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Platythyrea punctata


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#1 Offline PurdueEntomology - Posted April 20 2022 - 4:38 AM

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Here are some pics of my small but growing Platythyrea punctata colony.  I keep them in a Petri dish with some bark and spaghnum moss.  I feed them termites, 2-3rd instar meal worm larvae and fruit flies. They are a unique species and you can read more about them in the care sheet I created on this forum.  They are a very fast ant and getting a good image was difficult.  I think they are an elegant and lovely ant.  They are a  parthenogenetic species so workers are able to clone themselves, but this colony has a queen. 

 

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#2 Offline ZTYguy - Posted April 20 2022 - 7:25 AM

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Those photos are awesome! How large of colonies do they get, they seem quite interesting.
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#3 Offline PurdueEntomology - Posted April 20 2022 - 12:45 PM

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Those photos are awesome! How large of colonies do they get, they seem quite interesting.

These ants can have small colonies of less than a dozen individuals to up to 200 (https://link.springe...-030-28102-1_97)


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#4 Offline lazyant - Posted April 20 2022 - 1:30 PM

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Amazing never heard of these!


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