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Greg's Solenopsis invicta Journal (Discontinued)

Started By Gregory2455 , Sep 28 2014 2:43 PM
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#41 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted January 31 2015 - 9:47 PM

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Update: 1/31/2015

Despite them being at five workers, I thought a foraging container would be good for them, so I placed them in one of my new "boxbox" containers. :)


#42 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted March 21 2015 - 3:56 PM

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All the workers died and I had to take her out of the boxbox foraging container. :( She is all alone now.


#43 Offline dspdrew - Posted March 21 2015 - 4:09 PM

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Sounds like all of mine, except the one I have now that seems to be pretty successful.


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#44 Offline Vendayn - Posted March 21 2015 - 6:44 PM

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#45 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted April 14 2015 - 6:08 PM

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Discontinued.

She died today...


#46 Offline Alexant - Posted April 15 2015 - 1:01 AM

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Its a shame. They are a beautiful species. its just a shame about their invasive nature.


#47 Offline dspdrew - Posted April 15 2015 - 4:13 AM

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Well that sucks.


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#48 Offline AntsCalifornia - Posted December 19 2017 - 4:21 PM

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I thought it was illegal to keep these in CA...


#49 Offline Superant33 - Posted December 19 2017 - 6:44 PM

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An easy way to start a s. invicta colony is to boost the queen. Chill some wild caught workers and introduce them to your queen. Bingo. Near 100% success rate. Try boosting them. You will do well. Wish this worked with harvesters. My Pogonomyrmex success rate is negative 100%. Damn Pogonomyrmex.

#50 Offline AntsCalifornia - Posted December 19 2017 - 10:33 PM

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This is a 2015 post, I'm just saying a bunch of people scolded me for keeping S. invicta so I got rid of them. These people live very near to me, so I was wondering why they kept this species. I was told it was illegal. 


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