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#81 Offline cooIboyJ - Posted October 8 2024 - 2:13 PM

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One of the queens is dead now!!!! The other is not harmed at all. Also, I now have a major!!!!!!!!!!!! :yahoo: :lol: I was shining my phone light on the test tube to see inside and out of the hole in the dirt where the queen and brood are, a major came out! I saw the major a couple days after the ants ate up a whole mealworm (large size, but I don't think that the meal worm was fully grown). The major has not come out of the test tube yet.


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Solenopsis invicta

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#82 Offline AntsGodzilla - Posted October 8 2024 - 2:34 PM

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That's awesome! Majors of any species are great.


 

And many Carnivorous plants such as: Dionea muscipula (fly trap), Sarracenia x 'Fiona' ( American Pitcher plant), Nepenthese ventrata (Tropical Pitcher plant), and Pinguicula agnata x emarginata (Butterwort) (show off your plants here)

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Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores it's provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6: 6-8

 

Myrmecocystus depilis

 


#83 Online GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted October 8 2024 - 2:38 PM

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One of the queens is dead now!!!! The other is not harmed at all. Also, I now have a major!!!!!!!!!!!! :yahoo: :lol: I was shining my phone light on the test tube to see inside and out of the hole in the dirt where the queen and brood are, a major came out! I saw the major a couple days after the ants ate up a whole mealworm (large size, but I don't think that the meal worm was fully grown). The major has not come out of the test tube yet.

Could it be a media at this size?


Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

1 M.ergatognya

 

 

 

 

Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 


#84 Offline AntsTx - Posted October 8 2024 - 3:36 PM

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Could it be a media at this size?

 

 

 

Could be. I hade some sad-looking "majors" at 30 workers


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Camponotus texanus x2                                             Pheidole obtusospinosa - 2 workers

Camponotus vicinus - 15-20 workers                         Solenopsis xyloni x7 - Batch of eggs

Camponotus pennsylvanicus - 95-100 workers         Pheidole lamia - 4 workers                                                                                                                                 

Dorymyrmex bureni - 3 workers

Formica spp. - 5 workers

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis x2

Neoponera villosa x15

Crematogaster lineolata x5 - 75-100 workers 


#85 Offline cooIboyJ - Posted October 19 2024 - 10:48 AM

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I found a colony of Solenopsis invicta at a skate park and they had a ton of majors all eating chocolate on the ground. The majors were HUGE, probably around the size of a queen. I have now realized that I do not have majors but soldiers. 


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Currently keeping:
Brachymyrmex patagonicus

Solenopsis invicta

Crematogaster sp.


#86 Offline cooIboyJ - Posted November 22 2024 - 11:58 AM

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I have been wondering about why my ants are not very active (they do not even come out of the test tube) so I wondered if they were hibernating, but that would go against what most people told me. They told me that the ants won't hibernate. but after a bit of messing with them I found out that they are just resting, not hibernating. I think that this is because they do not find much food in the winter, so they do not expect food, and also my lack of feeding has probably convinced them of resting also :lol:


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“You’ll survive” -wise man.
Currently keeping:
Brachymyrmex patagonicus

Solenopsis invicta

Crematogaster sp.


#87 Online GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted November 23 2024 - 8:45 AM

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I found a colony of Solenopsis invicta at a skate park and they had a ton of majors all eating chocolate on the ground. The majors were HUGE, probably around the size of a queen. I have now realized that I do not have majors but soldiers. 

The term Majors and soldiers are the same thing but Majors is like more scientific.


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Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

1 M.ergatognya

 

 

 

 

Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 


#88 Offline cooIboyJ - Posted November 23 2024 - 11:44 AM

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I found a colony of Solenopsis invicta at a skate park and they had a ton of majors all eating chocolate on the ground. The majors were HUGE, probably around the size of a queen. I have now realized that I do not have majors but soldiers. 

The term Majors and soldiers are the same thing but Majors is like more scientific.

 

Then maybe not majors but sub-majors.


“You’ll survive” -wise man.
Currently keeping:
Brachymyrmex patagonicus

Solenopsis invicta

Crematogaster sp.


#89 Online GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted November 24 2024 - 10:45 AM

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To be honest i would just call them majors and that's it.


Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

1 M.ergatognya

 

 

 

 

Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 






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