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[super_oil]

5/10/17. I caught four Colobopsis queens at night using a black light. I thought they were Dorymyrmex queens at first. After three days all but one queen shed her wings and laid eggs. I did not want to disturb her so I did not take a picture.

[123LordOfAnts123]

Nice find. They're probably one of the more common visitors to light traps here in Florida at this time.

In my experience the founding queens can be rather finicky in accepting test tubes. Almost all of the ones I've captured and kept in standard tubes never shed their wings and would take a long time of settling in before laying eggs, if at all. I've had the best luck using 5mm glass tubes which better mimics their ecology. Their first batch is usually only 4-5 eggs. They have one of the strangest eggs of any ant here. Large relative to body size, and extremely elongated.

[super_oil]

Nice find. They're probably one of the more common visitors to light traps here in Florida at this time.

In my experience the founding queens can be rather finicky in accepting test tubes. Almost all of the ones I've captured and kept in standard tubes never shed their wings and would take a long time of settling in before laying eggs, if at all. I've had the best luck using 5mm glass tubes which better mimics their ecology. Their first batch is usually only 4-5 eggs. They have one of the strangest eggs of any ant here. Large relative to body size, and extremely elongated.

May I ask where you bought those 5mm test tubes?

[123LordOfAnts123]

https://www.avogadro...NvXKGgLcufD_BwE

I use a glass tubing cutter which they also sell to cut them to preferred lengths.

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