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Cloud's Camponotus castaneus Journal(Updated July 18th, 2019)

Started By Ferox_Formicae , Nov 1 2018 6:27 AM

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#41 Online ANTdrew - Posted May 17 2019 - 8:05 PM

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Please don’t try anything experimental with these queens, and now you have no need to remove successful castaeus colonies from the wild.

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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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#42 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted May 17 2019 - 8:09 PM

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Please don’t try anything experimental with these queens, and now you have no need to remove successful castaeus colonies from the wild.

I wasn't going to collect a wild colony of these. They dig down too deep. I was also just going to found them the classic way, like how I'm founding my Camponotus nearcticus queens, just not together, as Myrmentoma seem to be pretty accepting of other queens, as opposed to Camponotus and Taenaemyrmex, the subgenus C. castaneus is in.


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#43 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted May 18 2019 - 2:45 AM

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Bad news, the queen is flying, so she is probably not mated. I did put a male in with her last night though, but they haven't mated yet. Is there any way I could get them to mate?


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#44 Online ANTdrew - Posted May 18 2019 - 2:54 AM

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Sorry about that. You never know, though. Two of the winged chromaiodes queens I found have eggs now. I didn’t think they were mated.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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#45 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted May 18 2019 - 10:32 AM

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Sorry about that. You never know, though. Two of the winged chromaiodes queens I found have eggs now. I didn’t think they were mated.

Yes, but she isn't just winged, she's flying.


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#46 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted May 18 2019 - 1:20 PM

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I just took her out to check on her, and she flew away and go loose in my room. :(


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#47 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted May 21 2019 - 4:29 AM

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My girlfriend has said that she has laid a nice batch of eggs!


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#48 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted May 25 2019 - 7:53 PM

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Got a new queen from under a rock today! She has around 10 eggs.


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#49 Online ANTdrew - Posted May 26 2019 - 1:50 AM

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Nice!
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#50 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted May 26 2019 - 2:21 AM

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She consumed her eggs. :(


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#51 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted May 29 2019 - 6:42 PM

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She's laid three new eggs and is looking nice and plump! :)


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#52 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted July 18 2019 - 7:01 PM

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I have three queens at the moment, two with workers, both with two workers. The other has a very small amount of brood. They're doing pretty good so far!


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