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[XZero38]

Randomly found this queen and wasnt going to start a journal for her until she had some brood, well she has 4 eggs right now. Hoping she will be successful as this is the largest species I have now.

 

 

I seem to keep finding species that no one else on the site has raised before.

[Canadian anter]

I have these!
Well.... similar size and color.
Might be something else

Edited by Canadian anter, August 23 2016 - 9:44 AM.

[YawningGull]

I'm pretty sure I have a formica argentea queen. There's formica fusca nests (F. argentea I think) all around my house and I love them . Cuz they're so big and fast. But my dad wants to spray pesticides and kill them ;(

Edited by YawningGull, August 26 2016 - 11:01 AM.

[XZero38]

I'm pretty sure I have a formica argentea queen. There's formica fusca nests (F. argentea I think) all around my house and I love them . Cuz they're so big and fast. But my dad wants to spray pesticides and kill them ;(

Gotta get yourself a queen before that happens!

[YawningGull]

I'm pretty sure I have a formica argentea queen. There's formica fusca nests (F. argentea I think) all around my house and I love them . Cuz they're so big and fast. But my dad wants to spray pesticides and kill them ;(

Gotta get yourself a queen before that happens!

Yeah I'm gonna brood boost my current queens and try and capture as many colonies as I can before he sprays.
He wants to spray around the house, like in cracks. Will this kill a colony that's like 2-3 meters from where he wants to spray?

[sgheaton]

What's your plan for this species? Buy somethin' or you makin'?

[Shareallicu]

How's your colony doing?  I found a Formica Argentea too!  She hasn't laid eggs yet.  I gave her dirt and sugar water, but she hasn't started.  I don't know why

[Batspiderfish]

Exterminating a Formica species is so dumb. Just trading one "pest" for all the others which Formica hunt.

[Canadian anter]

Exterminating a Formica species is so dumb. Just trading one "pest" for all the others which Formica hunt.

especially predatory formic like aserva.A least it's not one of those

[Salmon]

How's your colony doing?  I found a Formica Argentea too!  She hasn't laid eggs yet.  I gave her dirt and sugar water, but she hasn't started.  I don't know why

I found one and put her in a normal test tube and she started laying within a couple days.

[Shareallicu]

 

How's your colony doing?  I found a Formica Argentea too!  She hasn't laid eggs yet.  I gave her dirt and sugar water, but she hasn't started.  I don't know why

I found one and put her in a normal test tube and she started laying within a couple days.

 

Nice, I witnessed her laying an egg last night!!  Very excited!  My first egg.... I mean, her first egg...

[XZero38]

Quick update, I checked in on her over the weekend and she only has one pupae and no other brood at the moment

[Batspiderfish]

My Formica neogagates is kinda doing the same thing. I'm afraid of checking on her or taking photographs and causing her to realize how late in the year it is to have a pupa. Yum, yum.

[XZero38]

So after not checking on her for a couple weeks i decided to check on her the other day. She now has one worker and another pupae.

Yesterday i decided to give her and the worker a cricket leg and when i went to give her the leg she had eaten her other pupae, the casing was discarded and flat on the other side of the test tube.

I'm hoping that she will get at least one more worker before going into hibernation for the winter.

 

Ill post pictures later today when i get home, I plan on updating all of my journals

Edited by XZero38, September 29 2016 - 5:26 AM.

[sgheaton]

Ill post pictures later today when i get home, I plan on updating all of my journals

 

And you better believe I'm going to hold you to it!

[XZero38]

Completely forgot to take pictures of her when i got home, nothing to exciting at this point though just the queen and one worker.

Ill try to remember to do it when i get home today after work.

[sgheaton]

AND YOU BETTER POST THEM CORRECTLY OR FACE THE WRATH OF STRANGERS NOT WANTING TO CLICK LINKS!!!

Said I would hold you too it. Not sure what that means. I was wanting to see a picture just to see how you're housing her. Still test tube? 

[XZero38]

Yeah her and my molesta queen are just chillin in test tubes for now.

[sgheaton]

Haha....didn't...even think about the Molesta queen.  

 

....you gonna leave 'em in there for their hibernation chamber?

[XZero38]

probably just gonna leave them in the tube for the winter since molestia only has 4 larva and argentea has 1 worker