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[Diffeomorphismus]

Hello,

 

in this journal I'd like to present all my colonies. So I don't have to write a journal for each one. Because it's very hard for me to write all these things about ant keeping in English I will mostly use pictures.

 

Today I start with my newest colony: Tetramorium cf. semilaeve. I got this colony just a few days ago (1 queen + 22 workers). At the moment they live in a little box. The nest ist just a test tube.  

 

They are really active ants and they are always hungry. As all my colonies they like Turkestan cockroaches (Shelfordella lateralis). In Germany we call this cockroaches "Schokoschaben" (chocolate cockroaches). But I have never tasted them.

 

Here you can see a worker with the rest of a cockroach:

 

And here is the queen:

 

At the right of this picture you can see the rest of a little spider. As I said they are always hungry:

 

The colony has lots of brood and the workers take care of it:

 

 

I hope you enjoyed this first impressions of my little Tetramorium. Next time I will present another colony to you.

 

Kind regards,

Diffeomorphismus

Edited by Diffeomorphismus, January 15 2015 - 11:34 PM.

[Gregory2455]

Great pictures!

[Diffeomorphismus]

Hello,

 

today I will present my Camponotus nicobarensis colony to you. I bought this colony in July 2014 from a private seller: 1 queen + 3 workers. Colonies of this Asian species have an enormous huge growth. So today my colony has more than 200 workers. They live in a tank of 50x30cm:

 

 

Here is the queen:

 

A major worker:

 

As I said in my post before: All my ants like Turkestan cockroaches:

 

I have already presented some pictures of this colony in this forum. You can find them here: http://www.formicult...s-nicobarensis/

 

Kind regards from Germany,

Diffeomorphismus

[Jonathan21700]

Nice photos! I wish my colonies could grow so fast.

[Myrmicinae]

Great photos!  Very interesting ants as well.  What other species do you keep?

[dspdrew]

Very nice photos. I like your Camponotus out world.

[Diffeomorphismus]

Great photos!  Very interesting ants as well.  What other species do you keep?

 

Thank you! My other colonies are: Camponotus cruentatus, Pheidole spathifera and Solenopsis fugax.

[Jonathan21700]

How did you get the Solenopsis fugax going?

[Diffeomorphismus]

I don't know if exactly understand your question. I didn't start with a single Solenopsis fugax queen. I got a colony with round about 40 workers. 

[Jonathan21700]

Thanks! How fast does their brood develop from egg to worker?

Edited by Jonathan21700, January 24 2015 - 12:04 PM.

[Myrmicinae]

Would you be able to post some pictures of your Solenopsis fugax colony?  I know that their tiny size might make that difficult... 

[kellakk]

Those are some really cool pictures!

[Diffeomorphismus]

Thanks! How fast does their brood develop from egg to worker?

 

Sorry, I don't know.

 

 

Would you be able to post some pictures of your Solenopsis fugax colony?  I know that their tiny size might make that difficult... 

 

Here are some (bad) pictures of Solenopsis fugax. The workers are so small: 1.5 millimeters.

 

 

 

[AntsAreUs]

Reminds me of Solenopsis molesta workers!

[Jonathan21700]

Cool photos!

[kellakk]

Those workers are tiny!

[Myrmicinae]

 

Would you be able to post some pictures of your Solenopsis fugax colony?  I know that their tiny size might make that difficult... 

 

Here are some (bad) pictures of Solenopsis fugax. The workers are so small: 1.5 millimeters.

 

 

Nice photos!  I find it interesting that the workers of S. fugax are nearly identical to those of the North American S. molesta, but the queens of these two species appear very different.

What nest are you keeping them in currently?  The minor workers of my Pheidole ceres colony are about this size and containing them is very difficult.

Edited by Myrmicinae, January 26 2015 - 11:24 AM.

[InsideAntz]

Really nice!

[Diffeomorphismus]

 

 

Would you be able to post some pictures of your Solenopsis fugax colony?  I know that their tiny size might make that difficult... 

 

Here are some (bad) pictures of Solenopsis fugax. The workers are so small: 1.5 millimeters.

 

 

Nice photos!  I find it interesting that the workers of S. fugax are nearly identical to those of the North American S. molesta, but the queens of these two species appear very different.

What nest are you keeping them in currently?  The minor workers of my Pheidole ceres colony are about this size and containing them is very difficult.

 

At the moment I still use the test tube.  

[Diffeomorphismus]

Hello,

 

here are some pictures which show a worker of my Tetramorium spec. colony is drinking some invert sugar. (As a result of a discussion in a German forum it seems to be clear that this species is not T. semilaeve.)

 

 

 

 

Kind regards,

Diffeomorphismus

Edited by Diffeomorphismus, January 28 2015 - 11:17 AM.