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TennesseeAnts' Ant Journals (Back for now)

Started By TennesseeAnts , May 30 2019 4:29 AM
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#581 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 6 2020 - 12:36 PM

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Prenolepis imparis (Colony #1)
3-6-20
I found these two queens yesterday. I saw one mate, and she has removed her wings.

Awesome! I’m hoping these fly for me on Monday when we’re set to hit 71.

Oh and I sold the Pheidole bicarinata colony yesterday. They arrived safely, and are happy.

Why did you sell them?

The guy wanted them, and I can get more this season, as they're extremely common.

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#582 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted March 6 2020 - 1:42 PM

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I think I'll go looking this weekend as it'll be 64 for a high. Fingers crossed I'll find some queens! Time to bike to the woods and go huntin'  


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#583 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted March 6 2020 - 2:37 PM

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Same here.


"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

#584 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 16 2020 - 9:35 AM

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Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Colony #1)
3-16-20

Up to 16 workers, with around 30 large larvae and pupae and about 35-40 eggs and small larvae. I am moving them into a clean tube with new sand.

Crematogaster lineolata (Colony #2)
3-16-20

She has 5 larvae and a bunch of eggs now, with one of the larvae just about ready to pupate.

Crematogaster lineolata (Colony #1)
3-16-20

I forgot what @ANTdrew and I named this queen, but she just laid a batch of around 300-400 eggs, and the brood she over wintered (600-700 microlarvae) is all pupae and large larvae now. A die off of about 50 workers took place earlier in the month, but I'm not worried as they were all the smallest workers, and she still has 375-425 workers. Her colony is about to triple in size! I expect alates this year, so I hope they don't disappoint!

Nylanderia cf. terricola (Colony #1)
3-16-20

Up to about 175 workers, and the queen just laid a large batch of eggs containing about 100 eggs. The brood pile is ever growing, and it's reached about 300 pieces of brood.

Formica integra (Colony #1)
3-16-20

By the time it warms up enough to get the rest of the colony, their pheromones would have changed too much, so I guess I'll keep two colonies. One with one queen and one with two.
Anyways, into the update! The queen has been an egg laying machine, laying eggs every other day. Three hosts have died, but she still has 12, and..... They have more than 60 eggs and small larvae!!! Parasitic Formica are just as easy as I remember them being...

Formica pallidefullva (Colony #1)
3-16-20

Up to 31 workers, with lots of brood. The queens are always laying new eggs, and the brood pile contains about 50 items, mostly eggs and small larvae.

Aphaenogaster tennesseensis (Colony #1)
3-16-20

First time I've checked on them in about a week, and she has 3 hosts left, but she has 2 parasitic workers! The brood pile is slowly growing, and contains a few pupae, some larvae and a couple eggs.

Edited by Ant_Dude2908, March 16 2020 - 9:57 AM.

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#585 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 16 2020 - 9:47 AM

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Crematogaster cf. ashmeadi (Colony #1)
3-16-20

Oh yeah! I found this queen after a small flight last week. She's calmed down, but I can't see any eggs yet. She has dropped her wings, so that's a good sign.
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#586 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 16 2020 - 2:32 PM

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Here's a short video of the Aphaenogaster tennesseensis colony: https://www.youtube....h?v=fSc-kg_gPy0


Edited by Ant_Dude2908, March 16 2020 - 2:35 PM.

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#587 Offline ANTdrew - Posted March 16 2020 - 6:09 PM

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We’re set to hit 80 on Friday after soaking rains Thursday. Hoping for flights in VA!
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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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#588 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted March 17 2020 - 4:55 AM

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Good luck! Closest flights we have are Prenolepis in a month or so.
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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

#589 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted March 17 2020 - 5:42 AM

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Yeah, and then Camponotus soon too..... :yahoo:


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#590 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 17 2020 - 7:18 AM

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Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Colony #1)
3-17-20

Up to 17 workers now. They've been hoarding seeds, seemingly in preparation of COVID-19...
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#591 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted March 17 2020 - 7:25 AM

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I think they're out of toilet paper...


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#592 Offline ANTdrew - Posted March 17 2020 - 8:29 AM

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Ants make their own sanitizer with their metapleural gland. No price gauging there.
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#593 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted March 17 2020 - 1:01 PM

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lol


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#594 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 18 2020 - 12:07 PM

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Prenolepis imparis (Colony #1)
3-18-20

We've got eggs! Well, only one egg, but still! I might separate the queens for a while, just to see which one is laying the eggs.
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#595 Offline ANTdrew - Posted March 18 2020 - 12:40 PM

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

#596 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted March 19 2020 - 4:17 AM

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Prenolepis imparis (Colony #1)
3-18-20

We've got eggs! Well, only one egg, but still! I might separate the queens for a while, just to see which one is laying the eggs.

but wouldn't separating them stress the egg laying queen, preventing her from laying eggs?


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#597 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 19 2020 - 1:47 PM

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Prenolepis imparis (Colonies #2, #3)
3-19-20

Found 5 new queens today. I could've got more, but I only collected queens that I saw mate. One tube has 3 queens and the other has 2. Pics will come later this week.

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#598 Offline ANTdrew - Posted March 19 2020 - 2:28 PM

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Dude, how?? I’ve been out everyday we’ve hit 70, and all I find are drones only sausage parties.
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#599 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 19 2020 - 2:43 PM

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I found these queens hanging out on trees by the edge of a forest. They were just crawling all up and down them, waiting to be tackled by drones.
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#600 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted March 19 2020 - 2:55 PM

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Good to know. I’ll be looking........
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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

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