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Started By JustabirdfromFlorida , Feb 16 2023 4:02 PM

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#21 Offline JustabirdfromFlorida - Posted May 16 2023 - 12:53 PM

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The first one is Dorymyrmex Bureni
The second is a unidentified Phedolie
The third is Invicta

#22 Offline JustabirdfromFlorida - Posted May 18 2023 - 2:47 AM

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I caught another queen I believe she is pheidole dentigula

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#23 Offline JustabirdfromFlorida - Posted May 19 2023 - 1:29 PM

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I acquired a 20 worker strong Harvester ant colony. I put them in a sand farm and the have been eating my parrots millet seeds.IMG-20230519-172423.jpg

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All the single queens I previously mentioned have eggs

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#24 Offline JustabirdfromFlorida - Posted May 21 2023 - 7:43 AM

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I will be going to India tonight so I will not be updating on these ants but I will update about other and species in India
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#25 Offline JustabirdfromFlorida - Posted May 25 2023 - 6:52 PM

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I caught a Camponotus irritans queen

And I sucked up a ten black crazy ant queen colony that were moving there were more queens but ten was enough. One even mated in my aspirator.

#26 Offline JustabirdfromFlorida - Posted May 26 2023 - 6:41 AM

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Black crazy ant
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Messor Instabilis
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I caught a winged Messor Instabilis queen she broke her wings in my holding container

Edited by asim, May 26 2023 - 6:43 AM.

#27 Offline ANTdrew - Posted May 26 2023 - 12:11 PM

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Do they have Messor in Florida??
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#28 Offline Flu1d - Posted May 26 2023 - 3:28 PM

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Do they have Messor in Florida??


We do not. The only harvester we have is actually native here and is Pogonomyrmex badius.

#29 Offline UtahAnts - Posted May 26 2023 - 4:30 PM

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Are you keeping these in india? See any Oecophylla sp?

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#30 Offline JustabirdfromFlorida - Posted May 27 2023 - 7:47 AM

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Um I already posted I am in India and I am constantly looking for weaver ant queens

#31 Offline Flu1d - Posted May 27 2023 - 8:34 AM

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He asked are you going to keep them in India, not if you were in India. I think people are curious if you are planning on bringing ants to the USA. The only legal way to do that would be as dead specimens preserved in some way (at least, as far as I know, this is legal, someone please correct me if I am wrong).

#32 Offline ANTdrew - Posted May 27 2023 - 9:49 AM

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Sorry, I missed the India part.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#33 Offline JustabirdfromFlorida - Posted May 27 2023 - 7:16 PM

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I am going to release the colonies as these are all native species to my state

#34 Offline JustabirdfromFlorida - Posted May 27 2023 - 7:34 PM

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I will also try a multi species attempt with the camponotus irritnas queen and camponotus compresesus. C. Compresseus flies later in the year while C. Irritnas flights are just ending.


As for messor yes we have two messor species in my state.


Weaver ants my state fly a little later in the year in the end of June. Luckily I will still be here. My dad told me he used to see Weaver ant workers every where when he was a kid. So fingers crossed I find some.


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Sorry for my wrong spellings

#35 Offline Flu1d - Posted May 28 2023 - 8:26 AM

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I had no idea India had states

Edited by Flu1d, May 28 2023 - 8:31 AM.

#36 Offline JustabirdfromFlorida - Posted May 28 2023 - 7:27 PM

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Yes we do we have 32 or 33 states.

#37 Offline JustabirdfromFlorida - Posted June 8 2023 - 8:23 PM

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My messor queen did not make it sadly. I do believe she had not mated.

#38 Online Ernteameise - Posted June 8 2023 - 11:41 PM

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Oh no, that is sad.

Don't give up, though!


#39 Offline JustabirdfromFlorida - Posted July 4 2023 - 8:33 PM

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I released all my ants as I will be heading back to the states soon

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#40 Offline JustabirdfromFlorida - Posted August 11 2023 - 2:50 PM

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none of the queens made it through the founding stage  :*(

Though i did order a Tetramorium Immigrans colony from Buckeye Myrmycology hopefully they survive  :)


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