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#1 Offline shuwen2.0 - Posted September 30 2024 - 11:33 AM

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The ants I kept before I came to the US

#2 Offline shuwen2.0 - Posted September 30 2024 - 11:39 AM

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Formica cunicularia 6.19 2019
Found these queens at school, brought them home, these are the first ants I’ve kept, I don’t even have a test tube setup, just feeding them fruits every day, they went through eggs stage no problem, but one day when I got home, they were gone.
Maybe my grandpa thought they were trash and threw them away
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#3 Offline shuwen2.0 - Posted September 30 2024 - 7:48 PM

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The ants I kept before I came to the US


Messor strutor, Messor barbarus, Messor capitatus, pheidole sinca, pheidole yeensis, carebara diversa, Tetramorium caespitum, Lasius alienus, lasius umbratus, Harpegnathos venator, Odontomachus monticola, monomorium minimum, Camponotus japonicus, Camponotus turkestanus, Oecophylla smaragdina, Crematogaster rogenhoferi, Pogonomyrmex rugosus, Formica cunicularia

#4 Offline shuwen2.0 - Posted September 30 2024 - 7:57 PM

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i bought 10 messor stuctor queens for 10$, young me doesn't even understand what polygyny means, so i had 9 queens in a single testube, hopingthat they wouldform a huge colony.
i also added a messor barbarus worker by soaking it in water.

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#5 Offline shuwen2.0 - Posted September 30 2024 - 8:01 PM

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the single m.structor queen that did not want to work with any other queens,
it goes crazy biting everything when encountering another queen

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#6 Offline shuwen2.0 - Posted September 30 2024 - 8:06 PM

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i bought 10 messor stuctor queens for 10$, young me doesn't even understand what polygyny means, so i had 9 queens in a single testube, hopingthat they wouldform a huge colony.
i also added a messor barbarus worker by soaking it in water.

they died soon after, when i got home one day after school, most of the queens are dead, the rest that are alive has detached gasters.
and that is the end of my “polygynous m.structor” died 1 month after i put them together.

#7 Offline shuwen2.0 - Posted September 30 2024 - 8:10 PM

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messor barbarus 6.1 2021
this is the first colony that actually survived in my hands for more than a year,

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#8 Offline shuwen2.0 - Posted September 30 2024 - 8:17 PM

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the queen has red on her head, thorax, and gaster, i was super happy as a kid, because triple reds are not that common

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