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#101 Offline Gracegarden - Posted September 30 2019 - 6:52 PM

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Anyone found any queens yet this year?

This past week I've caught a F. fusca, and 5 Manica hunteri queens.  I also have a seemingly healthy (captured) small F. fusca colony.  Started with about a dozen workers, queen and lots of brood.  I'll be moving them into a mini hearthXL tomorrow, so wanting to get a good head count.  I've seen lots of new silver workers stretching their pretty little legs!  



#102 Offline smares - Posted October 9 2019 - 4:15 PM

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Nice catches! I can never seem to catch the Formica flights around me. What area of Colorado are you in?

#103 Offline Gracegarden - Posted October 12 2019 - 6:21 PM

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Buena Vista.   All five of the M. hunteri queens have egg clusters now, I assumed they would wait until next season.  Now I have to figure out how to deal with them  :facepalm:


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#104 Offline smares - Posted October 15 2019 - 10:27 PM

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Maybe wait until they have a few workers and hibernate them a bit later? It would be cool to see pics of them.

#105 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted March 23 2021 - 11:36 AM

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Hello does anyone actually keep manica hunteri on here anymore and have any tip or am i just on a thread full of inactive people?


1X Pogonomyrmex occidentalis 40-50 Workers

1X Solenopsis molesta 10 Workers (mono)

Ants I Want: Crematogaster sp, Camponotus Sp., Ponera Pennsylvanica, Mymercocystus sp.

 

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#106 Offline NickAnter - Posted March 23 2021 - 11:43 AM

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I would PM AntsBC, he has kept them before, as well as Miles.


Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 


#107 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted March 23 2021 - 11:56 AM

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ok


1X Pogonomyrmex occidentalis 40-50 Workers

1X Solenopsis molesta 10 Workers (mono)

Ants I Want: Crematogaster sp, Camponotus Sp., Ponera Pennsylvanica, Mymercocystus sp.

 

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