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Acromyrmex versicolor
2019 Queen with fungus
(some early pictures are of a 2018 queen, 2019 wild caught worker)
1. Location (on a map) of collection: Tucson, AZ, southern foothills of Santa Catalina Mountains
2. Collections:
Date of mated Queen collection August 11, 2019 day after heavy rain grabbed as she was digging founding next
3. Habitat of collection: Sonoran Desert, 2400ft, foothills of Santa Catalina Mountains, mesquite trees and cactus
4. Length (from head to gaster): workers 8 mm
5. Color, hue, pattern and texture: Queens Dark red and spiky
6. Distinguishing characteristics:
7. Distinguishing behavior: Fungus Farmers
8. Nest description: Nests have round ring small pebbles, you can see yellow debris
9. Nuptial flight time and date: August 11, 2019 10AM morning after very heavy rain, founding nest in soft fine dirt in shade of a tree
10. Fungus success included some soil from under tree of collection
11. Using https://www.formiculture.com/user/2-dspdrew/ formicarium for founding fungus farmers
http://antwiki.org/wiki/Acromyrmex_versicolor
(Not tested but from https://www.formiculture.com/topic/112-preferred-food-by-species/ post)
Likes (used as fungus fertilizer):
Oat meal
Various cereals
Fish pellets
Sunflower petals
Poppy seeds
Ironwood leaves and flower petals
Rose petals
(some early pictures are of a 2018 queen, 2019 wild caught worker)
1. Location (on a map) of collection: Tucson, AZ, southern foothills of Santa Catalina Mountains
2. Collections:
Date of mated Queen collection August 11, 2019 day after heavy rain grabbed as she was digging founding next
3. Habitat of collection: Sonoran Desert, 2400ft, foothills of Santa Catalina Mountains, mesquite trees and cactus
4. Length (from head to gaster): workers 8 mm
5. Color, hue, pattern and texture: Queens Dark red and spiky
6. Distinguishing characteristics:
7. Distinguishing behavior: Fungus Farmers
8. Nest description: Nests have round ring small pebbles, you can see yellow debris
9. Nuptial flight time and date: August 11, 2019 10AM morning after very heavy rain, founding nest in soft fine dirt in shade of a tree
10. Fungus success included some soil from under tree of collection
11. Using https://www.formiculture.com/user/2-dspdrew/ formicarium for founding fungus farmers
http://antwiki.org/wiki/Acromyrmex_versicolor
(Not tested but from https://www.formiculture.com/topic/112-preferred-food-by-species/ post)
Likes (used as fungus fertilizer):
Oat meal
Various cereals
Fish pellets
Sunflower petals
Poppy seeds
Ironwood leaves and flower petals
Rose petals
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