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DinoH’s first Stigmatomma pallipes

Started By DinoH , Aug 16 2023 8:25 AM

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#1 Offline DinoH - Posted August 16 2023 - 8:25 AM

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While I was camping at Cape May I found my fist Stigmatomma pallipes queen!

I put her in a setup that was reserved for Strumigenys that I could not find any.

I am struggling to catch ground centipedes since they are too fast for me.

Yesterday I tried giving her a larger centipede that I knew was the wrong species but I tried feeding her anyway. She refused it.

My setup is a cotton carpet with a mixture of soil with sand.

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#2 Offline DinoH - Posted August 16 2023 - 8:31 AM

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I also put pieces of leaf litter and springtails to the setup.

#3 Offline ANTdrew - Posted August 16 2023 - 1:53 PM

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Carpet?

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#4 Offline DinoH - Posted August 16 2023 - 6:13 PM

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Carpet?

I made a carpet like layer of cotton beneath the dirt to hold moisture.

#5 Offline DinoH - Posted September 5 2023 - 2:43 AM

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I think my queen laid an egg!
https://youtube.com/...uaHCRPv80qq09GF

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#6 Offline Virginian_ants - Posted September 5 2023 - 3:00 AM

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Wow, good luck!

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#7 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted September 6 2023 - 1:15 AM

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Pretty sure they also eat the usual feeders. Also pretty sure they reproduce through fission, but I'm probably mistaken. Good luck.

Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

YouTube: https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)

Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), ★ Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#8 Offline Virginian_ants - Posted September 6 2023 - 2:50 AM

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Stigmatomma pallipes have queens and while they do eat other insects they can stump their growth according to VenomousBeast, he has kept many colonies and queens. Your speices in Asia are probably like what you described.