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[MegaMyrmex]

So this will be my first ant keeping journal. It is about my Ponera pennsylvanicus colony. It was found under a rock and is about 13 workers strong. Although they are queenless, some or one worker has taken on the role of egglaying. They are housed in a small glass box with a hige clump of peat moss as their nest. Tjey prefer high humidity and they are strictly predacious and eat only D. hydei fruit flies.They have a small clump of eggs. Hopefully the colony will grow...

[Martialis]

 P. pennsylvanica have queens very morphologically similar to workers.

[Leo]

cool

[MegaMyrmex]

True, but after intensive observation, they seemed to be all workers. I recently moved them into a test tube setup with sand because the mold was uncontrollable in the container.

[MegaMyrmex]

This is long overdue, but I should post it anyways-

Test tubes, for whatever reason, don't work for these ants, and sand doesn't seem to work. The colony died, so I recently acquired 2 new colonies and added peat moss to their nest area. Currently, they are all doing well so far. All of my colonies are queenless. I will have to make a separate forum about these ants...