Genus: Aphaenogaster
Species: floridana
Common Name:
Colony Stage: Fresh Queen
Caught Date: 05-28-2020
Eggs: 05-30-2020
Larva: 06-28-2020
Pupa:
Nanitics: 07-13-2020
Diet:
Special Needs:
Do they Sting or bite?:
Escape Artists?:
Queen or colony count: 1 Queen
05-30-2020:
Seemed healthy and laid her first egg.
07-13-2020:
Noticed her first worker today!
02-15-2022:
Thriving! But nest tends to mold. They seem to be bad about keeping old food and pooping in their nest. However I water them with tiny test-tubes with cotton. They have shredded some of the cotton and used it both to soak up and clean up mold/poo and takes that out into their graveyard/trash pile. They also use the cotton to soak up and pull honey from their honey feeder.
Edited by BitT, February 15 2022 - 4:04 PM.