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Formica subsericea! - Megamyrmex

Started By MegaMyrmex , Sep 24 2017 2:04 PM

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#1 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted September 24 2017 - 2:04 PM

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Caught a queen in late July, and she now has some pupae. I caught another queen and it had some pupae, but she died so I gave the pupae to the older queen. She now has 4 nanitics with more coming. Unfortunately, they forgot to help one of their siblings eclose so I had to do it for them, but the lottle ant's exoskeleton had already hardened😯

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Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
    consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
    and gathers its food at harvest.

#2 Offline FeedTheAnts - Posted September 24 2017 - 3:22 PM

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Awesome! Good luck.

I accidentally froze all my ants

#3 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted April 3 2018 - 7:48 PM

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Update?

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#4 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted April 4 2018 - 3:36 AM

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Oh man, forgot about this. The workers died off one by one and eventually the queen died too, I can never manage to get these ants past the "first nanitics" stage," something(for me) always seems to go wrong. I'll try to restart this in a few months when the queens start flying again.

Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
    consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
    and gathers its food at harvest.