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Kael’s Ant Journal (Lasius confusion)

Started By Kaelwizard , Jul 19 2019 3:21 PM

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#41 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 7 2019 - 1:25 PM

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I am back from my trip and I have some bad news. Queen 3 is dead. Queen 1’s brood looks dead but she may have eggs I can't see.

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#42 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 16 2019 - 7:14 AM

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The queen wasn’t laying and her brood was dead. I fed her to a pet spider.

I am hoping to buy a P. occidentalis queen.

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#43 Offline ANTdrew - Posted August 16 2019 - 10:06 AM

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Lots of dead queens. Sorry.
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#44 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 17 2019 - 11:51 AM

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I might be buying a P. occidentalis queen off of tarheelants today!


#45 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 17 2019 - 3:46 PM

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Just ordered a queen with workers! They will arrive in 2 days!


#46 Offline ForestDragon - Posted August 17 2019 - 4:00 PM

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GG i should probably order one but do they need hibernation or not 


#47 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 17 2019 - 5:18 PM

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GG i should probably order one but do they need hibernation or not

I don’t think so. I would ask Drew.

#48 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 20 2019 - 8:55 AM

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I found out that for orders that were placed before today will ship on Friday...

#49 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 22 2019 - 7:25 AM

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The colony should arrive next week. For those of you who also ordered from tarheelants, you know why.

Edited by Kaelwizard, August 22 2019 - 7:38 AM.

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#50 Offline Antennal_Scrobe - Posted August 23 2019 - 12:05 PM

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Did you pick the Mini-Hearth option?


Currently keeping:

 

Tetramorium immigrans, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Myrmica punctiventris, Formica subsericea

Formica pallidefulva, Aphaeogaster cf. rudis

Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Camponotus nearcticus

Crematogaster cerasi

Temnothorax ambiguus

Prenolepis imparis

#51 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 23 2019 - 6:17 PM

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Did you pick the Mini-Hearth option?

I already have one so no.
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#52 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 27 2019 - 3:43 PM

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I just caught a Brachymyrmex depilis queen! They are a dream species for me.
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#53 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 28 2019 - 4:21 AM

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She is being housed in a vial with moist coco coir. I gave her a starter tunnel and she has dug a tiny chamber at the top of it: She still has her wings, but she behaves like a fertile queen. I am heating her for now. I will hibernate her sometime in October and take her out of hibernation in March.

#54 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 28 2019 - 4:27 AM

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I was wrong about the ID! She is Solenopsis molesta!

#55 Offline NickAnter - Posted August 28 2019 - 6:17 AM

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Haha.  So many people do that, confusing B. depilis with S. molesta.  :lol:


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). 

#56 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 28 2019 - 7:38 AM

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Haha. So many people do that, confusing B. depilis with S. molesta. :lol:

Her super bright yellow abdomen gave it away! :lol:

#57 Offline ANTdrew - Posted August 28 2019 - 12:16 PM

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Why aren’t you using the traditional test tube set up for founding? How will you keep the substrate moist?
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#58 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 28 2019 - 2:17 PM

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Why aren’t you using the traditional test tube set up for founding? How will you keep the substrate moist?

I would just water the sub when necessary. Also the test tubes I have are extremely wide and best suited for large species.

#59 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 28 2019 - 5:33 PM

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She has taken off one wing. I think she is fertile.

#60 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted August 29 2019 - 6:16 AM

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Nice. My Proceratium pergandei queen should lay soon. I found her running around in the woods.

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