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#1 Offline Vendayn - Posted January 26 2015 - 9:35 PM

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#2 Offline Vendayn - Posted January 26 2015 - 9:47 PM

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#3 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted January 26 2015 - 10:38 PM

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Vendayn posted pictures! :D I see what you mean.


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#4 Offline Vendayn - Posted January 26 2015 - 11:26 PM

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#5 Offline dspdrew - Posted January 27 2015 - 7:17 AM

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I just have my smart phone android (Nexus 4, updated to Nexus 5 I guess...)

 

Sorry if it is hard to tell. But, you can sort of see the paper-like material they made. Both about same picture, one might be clearer. I took more, but for some reason the pictures got corrupted after I took them as they aren't retrievable...a bit weird.

 

http://i4.photobucke...0126_213827.jpg

 

http://i4.photobucke...0126_213824.jpg

 

It is lower in the picture, toward the middle. It blends in a bit with the wood...but, should be able to see it a little bit if you are good at Finding Waldo... :P

OMG pictures! :o



#6 Offline Servercheck - Posted January 27 2015 - 7:22 AM

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My dad got a Bougainvillea ( not sure of the spelling ) plant a while back with a gigantic colony of Pheidole megacephala in it. I tried to collect tem, but they moved somewhere before I could and now they're gone.

I don't think they died out, cause it was a huge colony with at least 5 queens. I guess they might have moved across the road to the jungle...

Anyway, part of the plant's stem was almost completely hollowed out much like the pictures you posted. I didn't know they were the ones who did it... It was pretty amazing, their hidden tunnels throughout the plant made it hard to collect them without damaging the plant, and I also spent a long time looking through cracks in the wood to observe them.

Definitely made them a species in my wishlist.

#7 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted January 27 2015 - 8:25 AM

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I'm gonna start anting in exotic plant nurseries. It will be like shopping! Oh, I will take one Atta colony, an Odontomachus colony, and a Dinoponera colony! :P

#8 Offline Crystals - Posted January 27 2015 - 10:20 AM

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Any box store or plant nursery is a great place to go anting.  I know of several people who have found hitch hikers.  Usually Tapinoma or Solenopsis invicta.

I have yet to find any myself, but it isn't for the lack of trying.  I plan on hitting a massive tropical plant nursery in the big city one day.  Even if I don't find any ants, they have some beautiful plants and chances are I will come home with some.  :D


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