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Why do my odontoponera keep dying

Started By Hightlyze , Aug 19 2019 4:14 AM

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#21 Offline Hightlyze - Posted August 21 2019 - 4:40 PM

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I don't have much info. Will an image help?

i eat cars for breakfast everynight

#22 Offline Manitobant - Posted August 21 2019 - 4:44 PM

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I don't have much info. Will an image help?

it might. Post it anyways
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/

#23 Offline Hightlyze - Posted August 21 2019 - 4:57 PM

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#24 Offline Hightlyze - Posted August 21 2019 - 5:09 PM

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Technically a video not image

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#25 Offline ponerinecat - Posted August 21 2019 - 7:15 PM

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Looks fine, maybe moisturize the dirt. Did you collect these from the wild? Typically the oldest ants go forage, so their lifespan may already be short


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#26 Offline Hightlyze - Posted August 21 2019 - 7:39 PM

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From front yard and parking lot

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#27 Offline Leo - Posted August 21 2019 - 11:18 PM

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My ants die easily
No queen
Temperature changes sometimes
Under my table

No queen.

NO QUEEN

"Why do my ants die?"
I dOn‘T KnOw, MaYbE BeCaUsE tHeY HAVE NO QUEEN

(other ants are acceptable, but Odontoponera are pretty hardy. Odontomachus and carebara I can understand.)

go find camponotus, pheidole or crematogaster. If you can keep those then odontoponera should be fine.


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#28 Offline Hightlyze - Posted August 21 2019 - 11:39 PM

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My ants die easily
No queen
Temperature changes sometimes
Under my table

No queen.
NO QUEEN
"Why do my ants die?"
I dOn‘T KnOw, MaYbE BeCaUsE tHeY HAVE NO QUEEN
(other ants are acceptable, but Odontoponera are pretty hardy. Odontomachus and carebara I can understand.)
go find camponotus, pheidole or crematogaster. If you can keep those then odontoponera should be fine.

They died only few days there or hours

i eat cars for breakfast everynight

#29 Offline Leo - Posted August 21 2019 - 11:41 PM

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My ants die easily
No queen
Temperature changes sometimes
Under my table

No queen.
NO QUEEN
"Why do my ants die?"
I dOn‘T KnOw, MaYbE BeCaUsE tHeY HAVE NO QUEEN
(other ants are acceptable, but Odontoponera are pretty hardy. Odontomachus and carebara I can understand.)
go find camponotus, pheidole or crematogaster. If you can keep those then odontoponera should be fine.

They died only few days there or hours

 

they tend to die fairly quickly without a queen or brood =\

please, unless there is a queen, don't do this.


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#30 Offline Hightlyze - Posted August 21 2019 - 11:51 PM

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What do I do now?

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#31 Offline Hightlyze - Posted August 22 2019 - 12:38 AM

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Ik give up

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#32 Offline Canadian anter - Posted August 22 2019 - 2:28 AM

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Ya WAIT till you find a queen
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#33 Offline ANTdrew - Posted August 22 2019 - 2:31 AM

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With all due respect, I say everyone should stop taking this guy’s bait.
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#34 Offline Hightlyze - Posted August 22 2019 - 3:00 AM

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What?

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#35 Offline Leo - Posted August 22 2019 - 3:25 AM

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What?

He means you are acting like a troll. 


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#36 Offline Hightlyze - Posted August 22 2019 - 3:38 AM

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Wth am I being attacked again

Edited by Hightlyze, August 22 2019 - 3:39 AM.

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#37 Offline Leo - Posted August 22 2019 - 4:38 AM

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Wth am I being attacked again

We WANT to help you. But you do silly things, and have obviously not researched at all. Then when you give us random unhelpful bits of information, you expect us to know EXACTLY what is going on. Then when we ask you for more info, we realize that you have made many many easily avoidable mistakes, and when we try tell you that, you feel attacked.

 

Sit down, and read our answers and use some common sense to piece together what you did wrong. Then do some more research. Its not that hard dude, we aren't asking you to keep a scarcely documented species like Protanilla ok? Just try that^^^


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#38 Offline Hightlyze - Posted August 22 2019 - 6:44 PM

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i think i know why they some are killed. i found different odontoponera species. i found a nest near the front gate which are bigger and have big heads.

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#39 Offline Leo - Posted August 22 2019 - 7:31 PM

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Get a queeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen, EVEN I FOUND ONE TODAY


#40 Offline Hightlyze - Posted August 22 2019 - 7:37 PM

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Bruh how

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