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Formica Subsericea

Started By Amazant , Aug 12 2019 10:55 AM

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#21 Offline Amazant - Posted September 11 2019 - 1:53 PM

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The larvae has gotten really big and the queens gaster is huge but I’m not seeing any eggs which could be from the similar colored sand or they are hiding it under the cotton ball chamber they made but they are doing good and the workers gasters are pretty big after drinking some honey.
Colonies: Formica pallidefulva, Lasius neoniger, Camponotus decipiens, Camponotus sp, Camponotus Vicinus, Crematogaster Sp

#22 Offline Amazant - Posted April 17 2020 - 12:54 PM

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The colony died during hibernation when my dog moved the nest around at night causing the queen to kill all her workers and run into the outworld and died a few minutes later, probably from Formic acid.
Colonies: Formica pallidefulva, Lasius neoniger, Camponotus decipiens, Camponotus sp, Camponotus Vicinus, Crematogaster Sp

#23 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted April 17 2020 - 1:11 PM

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Sorry to hear that. My colony died of some unknown poison from an earthworm I fed them. They used the queen as sort of a replete, and was subsequently the first one to die.
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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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