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[Zeiss]

This is one of the many ants I got from Sub a week or so ago after not having ants for a while.  She and the other queens took a bit to start laying eggs, but now since they've started, I have started the journals for them.  So far I have just been giving her some water every now and then, sugar water, and just recently a dead fruit fly for possible larvae.  I will post more once I can tell for sure if there are any larvae or changes.  Keeping her in a THA founding thing.   

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Edited by Zeiss, September 18 2019 - 12:38 AM.

[dspdrew]

It's cool how many people have these this year. Now we will be able to see how well they do under all sorts of different care and setups.

[nurbs]

I had six. Now I got five. Just checked on them and one of them has died. They are all in a test tube/dirt setup. All of them had eggs.

 

She's not yellow anymore, either. Kind of a  burnt orange now.

[Zeiss]

9-6-15 

It has been a while since I have last posted about my ants.  I think it is time for an update.  She has thinned out quite a bit since I have posted this.  She doesnt have eggs currently, but she does have a bunch of cocoons and 2 or 3 larvae.  I put some cricket abdomens in with her and she just ignores them along with any sugar water.  I will post some pictures later today hopefully.  

[Tpro4]

u should give humming bird nectar or honey water

[Zeiss]

u should give humming bird nectar or honey water

She always has water, and with the nectar I give her she just uses the substrate to soak it up and then she ignores it.

[William. T]

Nothing to do then but to leave her in quiet.

[Zeiss]

23-3-2019

The colony you see above has died a long time ago.

 

The new colony I have is doing fairly well so far.  These images were taken last week, so they're a bit dated.  She now has two nanitics with her after having her original group of about 6 die due to me being unable to provide them with food for a while.  I'll take more pictures when I'm not too lazy.

[Antking117]

Looks pretty cool. She has quite the inflated gaster.

[Zeiss]

Looks pretty cool. She has quite the inflated gaster.

Yeah, she drank a lot of Sunburst Ant Nectar a day or so before I took the images.

[TennesseeAnts]

I did not know you had any journals. I wish I had Myrmecocystus in Tennessee...

[Zeiss]

I did not know you had any journals. I wish I had Myrmecocystus in Tennessee...

Most of these were from 2015 and have been hidden since then, haha.  I am usually too lazy to make/update any journals.

[Zeiss]

18-9-2019

The queen above has died.

 

I don't have many pictures of my Myrmecocystus mexicanus founding queens, but I had originally caught 17 queens right as they were digging their founding chambers.  When dspdrew and I came across them, we were pretty damn happy, haha. Right now, the slowest queen has several eggs in a pile and the fastest has 4 cocoons.

Yes, my picture quality is bad.

Edited by Zeiss, September 18 2019 - 12:47 AM.