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Greg's Pogonomyrmex rugosus Journal (Discontinued)

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#21 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted September 28 2014 - 11:03 PM

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The bejeweled ones worker is eclosing as I write this! :D



#22 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 3 2014 - 9:19 PM

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Update: 10/3/2014

Some of the infertile queens have started to die now, I am down to 18 of these queens, three of which have workers, and a few are getting near.

As of now, the bejeweled one has had this worker for a few days. The worker does not seem to want to take off the dead Solenopsis xyloni from her leg!  :yahoo:

Here are some pictures of the bejeweled one with her first worker. :)

 

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#23 Offline Tpro4 - Posted October 3 2014 - 10:32 PM

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So about this, what is your plan to catch them.
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#24 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 3 2014 - 11:30 PM

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What do you mean catch them? They are in test tubes. :thinking:



#25 Offline dspdrew - Posted October 4 2014 - 7:50 AM

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Maybe your test tubes are falling?



#26 Offline Tpro4 - Posted October 4 2014 - 9:03 AM

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I meant how do you catch them, or attract them.
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Current Queens:
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#27 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 4 2014 - 10:38 AM

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Maybe your test tubes are falling?

 

What?



#28 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 4 2014 - 10:40 AM

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I meant how do you catch them, or attract them.

 

Tpro, let me get you started. I will make a new thread explaining how I do my anting in the desert, Drew and others who go to the desert can contribute. It is basically the same as anting anywhere else, but rain matters the most for a flight to start.



#29 Offline dspdrew - Posted October 4 2014 - 10:43 AM

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What?

Tpro4 asked how you planned to catch them.



#30 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 4 2014 - 10:47 AM

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I know, but what did you mean by, "Maybe your test tubes are falling?"


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#31 Offline dspdrew - Posted October 4 2014 - 11:14 AM

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Haha, falling test tubes should be caught. :facepalm:



#32 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 4 2014 - 12:41 PM

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I have never dropped a test tube. :)



#33 Offline Foogoo - Posted October 4 2014 - 6:45 PM

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It sounds like it took your Bejeweled worker about 2 weeks to go from pupae to eclosing? Is this about the time frame for more Pogonomyrmex? My californicus has a pile of larvae and at least a few pupae and I'm impatiently waiting for more workers!


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#34 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 4 2014 - 6:46 PM

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Pogonomyrmex take for ever for brood to develop. :(



#35 Offline dspdrew - Posted October 4 2014 - 7:47 PM

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It sounds like it took your Bejeweled worker about 2 weeks to go from pupae to eclosing? Is this about the time frame for more Pogos? My californicus has a pile of larvae and at least a few pupae and I'm impatiently waiting for more workers!

Should be about a month and a half from egg to worker.



#36 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 5 2014 - 12:03 AM

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#37 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 5 2014 - 1:25 AM

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#38 Offline dspdrew - Posted October 5 2014 - 2:30 AM

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That fire ant on her leg is pretty funny.



#39 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 5 2014 - 11:29 AM

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Yeah, the worker doesn't care about it as of now, so looks like it might stay on. :)



#40 Offline DesertAntz - Posted October 5 2014 - 12:59 PM

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I wonder how that happened? Did the ant die of old age as it was attacking her (lol) or was it unable to remove itself and died of starvation? 


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