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Straywolf94's Linepithema humile concentration camp

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#1 Offline Straywolf94 - Posted June 16 2018 - 7:26 PM

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My kitchen was getting overrun with argentines, so I decided to hunt down their nest.  Tracked their trails to a crack between the fence and dirt in my backyard.  So I used a water hose and flooded them out.  After 10 minutes, the ants were taking their brood up the fence, and a few queens followed.  I nabbed 4-5 queens into a test tube, and a bunch of the ants.  Then throughly sprayed the fence and trails with Raid, and poured boiling water down the nest.  Hope that will keep their numbers down temporarily.

 

I took the queens and popped them into a quickly made hydrostone outworld in a madeline container and dumped all the captive ants in there as well.   I contained them with a moat of water since they were crawling up baby powder barrier with ease.

After 1 day, over 75% of them had fell into the soapy water moat.  The few that are left huddle between the rocks, or are pretty inactive inside the test tube.

 

It seems they do need a lot of area for foraging and trails.  I've left sugar water, honey, jam, crackers, chicken in the outworld - all things they normally swarm over in the kitchen, but in captivity, they seem uninterested.

 

Let's see how they do over next few weeks.  There is a small egg bundle laid by the queens in the tube but I don't know if they are being fed well enough to sustain.

 

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Edited by Straywolf94, June 16 2018 - 7:59 PM.

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#2 Offline Derpy - Posted June 16 2018 - 7:50 PM

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I wouldn’t keep this species if I were you. Keep in mind these are the same ruthless killers, that have killed many of people’s colonies over years.

-1x Parasitic Formica Sp. Colony

-1x Pogonomymrex Californicus Colony

-1x Camponotus Hyatti Colony

 


#3 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted June 16 2018 - 9:22 PM

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I wouldn’t keep this species if I were you. Keep in mind these are the same ruthless killers, that have killed many of people’s colonies over years.

If he is going to make this a concentration camp, why not :lol:. If you want to give your utmost care to this colony, don't do it, and follow Derpy's advice. If you want to make it a hellhole for them, by all means, do it! I would poison them with borax for 24 hours, then release them into the wild to infect more. Rinse and repeat.
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#4 Offline Straywolf94 - Posted June 16 2018 - 9:45 PM

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I check on them every hour with a ultra bright flashlight, keeps me from checking and disturbing my other queens too often. I put them into the outword 15 mins after casting it, so no, don't really care too much for them. There were a few sunk into the halfway into the hydrostone lol.

I expect they won't last too long, but was curious.

Edited by Straywolf94, June 16 2018 - 9:48 PM.


#5 Offline ponerinecat - Posted May 18 2019 - 4:44 PM

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This is actually really effective for controlling populations. done this for the past few years and local ants are rehabilitating, with pheidole coming back. Even have a crematogaster colony here! less and less argentines.



#6 Offline CatsnAnts - Posted May 18 2019 - 5:03 PM

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Omg, this is hilarious, XD, this is what happens when you start invading what isn’t your’s.

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#7 Offline FSTP - Posted May 18 2019 - 5:16 PM

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Next thing you know they're going to start thier own baseball team and start having weekend theater plays.


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