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Ant_Dude2908's Aphaenogaster cf. rudis Journal (Discontinued)

Started By TennesseeAnts , Mar 10 2019 12:50 PM

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#1 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 10 2019 - 12:50 PM

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I just found this colony of 150-200 workers in a VERY rotten log. They seem to be producing alate larvae.

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#2 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 13 2019 - 8:32 AM

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They have moved into a new nest, and have been eating like crazy! The queen has laid more eggs too.


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#3 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 24 2019 - 5:44 AM

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Dead.

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#4 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 24 2019 - 5:46 AM

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Ok! New colony time! They have about 15 workers and tons of brood. Some dark pupae too. And queen keeps laying eggs.

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#5 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted April 18 2019 - 8:54 AM

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They are doing really well! Lots of brood and around 50 workers.


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#6 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted April 29 2019 - 9:13 AM

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They started a steep decline, and when they had 11 workers, I froze them. :*(

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#7 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted April 29 2019 - 10:38 AM

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They started a steep decline, and when they had 11 workers, I froze them. :*(

Rest in peace. It's always sad to loose a colony. I hope you can possibly find another colony, and I hope those ones do better than your other ones have. Where I'm from, I see Aphaenogaster carolinensis all of the time, and nine times out of ten, I can find the queen very easily. Hopefully you can find a good sized colony.


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#8 Offline ANTdrew - Posted April 29 2019 - 12:13 PM

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Sorry for your colony.
Just my impression, but I see everybody just having problems with Aphaenogaster. I like seeing them in the wild, but I have no interest in keeping them.
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#9 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted May 12 2019 - 10:14 AM

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We are back in business! I traded my smallest Crematogaster cerasi colony for this small A. rudis colony of about 10 workers and 10-11 pupae. High hopes for this colony!

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#10 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted May 12 2019 - 10:16 AM

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We are back in business! I traded my smallest Crematogaster cerasi colony for this small A. rudis colony of about 10 workers and 10-11 pupae. High hopes for this colony!

Nice! I hope they do well!  (y)


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#11 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted May 12 2019 - 10:23 AM

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They better!

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#12 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted May 12 2019 - 10:24 AM

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They better!

Yeah. I actually have yet to have but one death in my colony, and they have lots of brood!


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#13 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted May 16 2019 - 8:25 AM

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Dead again.

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#14 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted May 16 2019 - 10:35 AM

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That's a shame. Are you giving them enough hydration? They needs lots of it in order to survive. I left my Aphaenogaster miamiana colony in a small container with a moist cotton ball for two days while I went on vacation, and the cotton ball dried up and they died.


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#15 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted May 16 2019 - 10:45 AM

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Yeah. I think I let the cotton dry out.

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#16 Offline NickAnter - Posted May 29 2019 - 4:53 PM

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Are all Aphaenogaster this temperamental?  I wonder if these colonies would have done better if they were fed sugar, as in a lump, not sugar water. If you get another one, try this, I have read somewhere that that is one way they will accept sugars.  It is also possible that the humidity was not high enough.


Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

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I know what happened to the last colony. I dehydrated them.

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#18 Offline NickAnter - Posted May 29 2019 - 4:56 PM

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Oh.


Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

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Are all Aphaenogaster this temperamental?  I wonder if these colonies would have done better if they were fed sugar, as in a lump, not sugar water. If you get another one, try this, I have read somewhere that that is one way they will accept sugars.  It is also possible that the humidity was not high enough.

 

Very limited experience here, but I have an A. fulva colony I captured thinking it was something else. They swarm honey they seem to love it!


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