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Leo's ants Updated 29/09/19

Started By Leo , Mar 24 2019 6:06 PM

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#41 Offline Dnail - Posted September 20 2019 - 8:40 AM

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can i see the set up for Carabera queen?

 

 

this one

 

 

Carebara diversa 25mm queen

Critter keeper with soil and buried boiling tube

900 workers, 300+ larvae

 

Pupae are enclosing  :o


Colony:

2 Odontomachus aciculatus 

2 Polyrachis Dives

3 Camponotus sp

#42 Offline Leo - Posted September 20 2019 - 4:00 PM

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can i see the set up for Carabera queen?

 

 

this one

 

 

Carebara diversa 25mm queen

Critter keeper with soil and buried boiling tube

900 workers, 300+ larvae

 

Pupae are enclosing  :o

they had a huge die off, and are slowly recovering. only about 100 workers and 3 super majors left.


#43 Offline Leo - Posted September 28 2019 - 5:14 PM

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Update: 29/09/19

 

Ants that died:

Camponotus sp (silver band)  :*( 

After months of no eating, I found the queen dead yesterday...

Odontomachus monticola

Died without laying.

All cataglyphis workers suddenly died

The queen is still alive

Polyrachis

Actually died to cordyceps. I quarantined all their setups and burned the fungus  :lol:

 

Stuff that isn't dead:

 

Meranoplus bicolor

Dirt setup 

1 queen, 40 workers

 

 

Acanthromyrmex sp

Test tube

1 queen

 

no eggs

 

 

Carebara diversa

can i see the set up for Carabera queen?

 

 

this one

 

 

Carebara diversa 25mm queen

Critter keeper with soil and buried boiling tube

900 workers, 300+ larvae

 

Pupae are enclosing  :o

 

 

New colonies:

Camponotus irritans (large form)

Pheidole sp

 

 

Odontoponera sp


#44 Offline Guy_Fieri - Posted September 28 2019 - 7:00 PM

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Wow, that Pheidole colony has a lot of majors!

#45 Offline Leo - Posted September 28 2019 - 9:38 PM

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Wow, that Pheidole colony has a lot of majors!

yeah, its weird


#46 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 29 2019 - 9:57 AM

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ooh, love the meranoplus and acantomyrmex. 


#47 Offline Leo - Posted November 12 2019 - 11:12 PM

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Welp, quick update. I've been really stressed lately and do not have much time to care for my ants. 

Currently, my collection is down to:

Ectatomma

meranoplus

Carebara (doing terrible  :( )

diacamma

and my tarantula 

 

See ya'll in a couple months!


#48 Offline NickAnter - Posted June 20 2020 - 4:10 PM

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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). 

#49 Offline ANTdrew - Posted June 20 2020 - 5:01 PM

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He disappeared a long time ago.
"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 Antkid12 - Posted June 20 2020 - 5:02 PM

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He disappeared a long time ago.

 He visited on May 31.


Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 

#51 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted June 20 2020 - 5:04 PM

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Just a visit, though. Oh, well, he may come back eventually. But then again, he may not. It’s happened to tons of members.
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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#52 Offline Manitobant - Posted June 20 2020 - 5:14 PM

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Why did he leave? Was it because of the unrest in hong kong?

Edited by Manitobant, June 20 2020 - 5:15 PM.

My journals:

Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#53 Offline Antkid12 - Posted June 20 2020 - 5:28 PM

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Just a visit, though. Oh, well, he may come back eventually. But then again, he may not. It’s happened to tons of members.

I hope I will never leave.  :D


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Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 

#54 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted June 20 2020 - 5:44 PM

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Just a visit, though. Oh, well, he may come back eventually. But then again, he may not. It’s happened to tons of members.

I hope I will never leave.  :D

I, for one, never plan to. 


"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#55 Offline Hightlyze - Posted June 20 2020 - 10:02 PM

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What happened to Leo? Haven't seen him in a while


i eat cars for breakfast everynight

#56 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted June 21 2020 - 6:26 AM

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That’s what we were just talking about.

"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#57 Offline Hightlyze - Posted June 21 2020 - 6:29 AM

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Oh didn't read above. Saw this thread and suddenly remembered him and how he disappeared


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i eat cars for breakfast everynight

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