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Started By Hightlyze , Sep 5 2019 3:13 AM

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#201 Offline Barristan - Posted November 14 2020 - 3:33 AM

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If someone buys an ant colony infested by a lot of mites and refuses to complain:

 

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#202 Offline Manitobant - Posted November 14 2020 - 5:38 AM

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That is f*cking disgusting. I literally feel like I'm gonna throw up.
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#203 Offline ANTdrew - Posted November 14 2020 - 7:10 AM

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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.

#204 Offline ANTdrew - Posted November 16 2020 - 6:24 AM

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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.

#205 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted November 16 2020 - 6:49 AM

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i thought it should be to teach them there's no cream in atogaster


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We don’t talk about that

#206 Offline Spazmops - Posted November 16 2020 - 8:22 AM

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I see people misspell gaster more than crematogaster, but honestly Myrmecocystus is the worst in terms of spelling. 


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Ants I have:

1 Formica fusca group- 0 workers

1 Tetramorium immigrans colony-20 workers

1 Dorymyrmex insanus- 1 queen, used to have workers

 

1 large P. occidentalis colony- around 50 workers, plenty of brood

 

 

#207 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted November 16 2020 - 9:13 AM

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I see people misspell gaster more than crematogaster, but honestly Myrmecocystus is the worst in terms of spelling.

I agree with this 100% but people actually spell it like goster.
We don’t talk about that

#208 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted November 16 2020 - 9:51 AM

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I used to spell Crematogaster ‘Crematoghaster’.

"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

#209 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted November 16 2020 - 9:58 AM

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I used to spell Crematogaster ‘Crematoghaster’.

*creamtoegaster


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He travels, he seeks the p a r m e s a n.

#210 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted November 16 2020 - 10:12 AM

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I used to spell Crematogaster ‘Crematoghaster’.

*creamtoegaster

 

gotta get those lovely creamy toe ants 


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#211 Online Ants_Dakota - Posted November 16 2020 - 11:10 AM

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aphaenogaster is misspelled many times as well.


Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. -Proverbs 6: 6-8

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#212 Offline Barristan - Posted November 21 2020 - 1:51 PM

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mites queen

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#213 Offline ANTdrew - Posted November 21 2020 - 2:13 PM

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

#214 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted November 21 2020 - 2:41 PM

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New Ant keepers coming into the hobby because of their friends be like:


Edited by KitsAntVa, November 21 2020 - 2:41 PM.

We don’t talk about that

#215 Offline Barristan - Posted November 21 2020 - 8:48 PM

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Some reactions to my mite meme:

 

mite reaction0
 
mite reaction1
 
mite reaction2
 
mite reaction3

 


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#216 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted November 22 2020 - 8:24 AM

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Some reactions to my mite meme:

 

I mean what did you expect.(also you forgot to edit a name out)


Edited by DDD101DDD, November 22 2020 - 8:25 AM.

He travels, he seeks the p a r m e s a n.

#217 Offline Barristan - Posted November 22 2020 - 4:18 PM

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Some reactions to my mite meme:

 

I mean what did you expect.(also you forgot to edit a name out)

 

 

I am allowed to name him.


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#218 Offline M_Ants - Posted November 22 2020 - 6:06 PM

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Screenshot 2020 11 21 At 19.56.46

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Veromessor pergandei

Veromessor andrei

Crematogaster sp. 

Pogonomyrmex cf cali and rugosus

Various Pheidole

C. yogi 

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#219 Offline ANTdrew - Posted November 22 2020 - 7:15 PM

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Lol, but they can inspire hysterical panic in any home that has some wood.
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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.

#220 Offline Pumpkin_Loves_Ants - Posted November 23 2020 - 6:05 AM

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He’s not wrong though. It IS less than one football field.
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Lasius Neoniger (Around 23ish workers)

Tetramorium Immigran (8 Workers)

Myrmica Queen (Not 100% on species)

Formica Subsericea (No workers)

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