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#1 Offline steam_funk - Posted June 25 2023 - 5:11 PM

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Now that I have graduated high school and have more time on my hands, I've decided to get back into ant keeping and have started 3 new colonies for now.

 

The first is a Camponotus Floridanus queen I caught about a week ago, she somehow wandered into my house and I found her in the bathroom.

It's been a good while since our house has been sprayed with indoor pesticide, and she seems active and has laid a fair number of eggs so I think she is fine.

 

The second is a three-queen colony of Solenopsis Invicta I caught two days ago.

I've put them in a Hitechants founding formicaria rather than a test tube so that feeding them with the first generation will be easier.

They've already created an impressive ball of eggs and are cooperating, so I am very interested to see how their polygyne develops.

 

The third is a five-queen test tube colony of what I am fairly certain is Lasius Americanus, which I also caught yesterday.

They have not laid eggs yet, but all queens seem to be getting along. I distinctly remember raising this species before without hibernation, so I will try it that way again.

 

I do not have pictures yet as I want to avoid stressing them out so early with the obnoxious flash of my macro camera, but I will probably try to get some good photos in about a week.

I also have a senior friend whose brother in middle school has gotten way into ant-keeping,

he does a ton of research and has a huge colony of trap jaws and has even started a Trachymyrmex septentrionalis colony with a few queens, so I will be sure to recommend him to this forum.

 

 






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