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#461 Offline FloridaAnts - Posted July 21 2022 - 7:13 PM

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Therapist: Most ants are small, so don't worry, they can't hurt you.

Dinomyrmex gigas, Myrmecia brevinoda, and Dinoponera gigantea:

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I love when people use the word Most and Usually


Little add on: Most ants are sugar ants, and they don’t event bite! They are so tiny…


Reality: Australian Antkeepers get bit my Camponotus sugar ants

Edited by FloridaAnts, July 21 2022 - 7:15 PM.

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#462 Offline FloridaAnts - Posted July 22 2022 - 11:13 AM

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Pest control: Its Camponotus, as you can tell by the stunning 4mm.
Me: But its just a-
Pest control: We sent it to the “lab”. Its Camponotus
Me: its just Lasi-
Pest control: You can call us to discuss your options, and the inspection is 100$, and the ID is 200$, since we sent it to the “lab”
Me: But it was done wrong and-
Pest control: I told you, you can schedule your tenting at get rid of ants .com Bye now!

Reality of the “lab”
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#463 Offline bmb1bee - Posted July 22 2022 - 3:02 PM

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"Float like a butterfly sting like a bee, his eyes can't hit what the eyes can't see."
- Muhammad Ali

Check out my shop and cryptic ant journal! Discord user is bmb1bee if you'd like to chat.

Also check out my YouTube channel: @bmb1bee

#464 Offline Leptomyrmx - Posted July 22 2022 - 4:28 PM

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Little add on: Most ants are sugar ants, and they don’t event bite! They are so tiny…


Reality: Australian Antkeepers get bit my Camponotus sugar ants

 

 

Yeah, Camponotus nigriceps and intrepidus majors really hurt.


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My Ants:

Colonies: Camponotus humilior 1w, Opisthopsis rufithorax 11w, Aphaenogaster longiceps ~5w, Pheidole sp. ~235w ~15m, Iridomyrmex sp. 2q 1w, Brachyponera lutea 6w, Crematogaster sp. ~20w, Podomyrma sp. 1w

Queens: Polyrhachis cf. robinsoni, Polyrhachis (Campomyrma) sp. (likely infertile)

Previously Kept: Colobopsis gasseri, Technomyrmex sp., Rhytidoponera victorae, Nylanderia cf. rosae, Myrmecia brevinoda/forficata, Polyrhachis australis, Solenopsis/Monomorium

Key: Q = Queen, W = Worker, M = Major

Youtube Channel: Ants of Sydney - YouTube

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#465 Offline FloridaAnts - Posted July 26 2022 - 5:07 PM

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People that work really hard on there journals and ID’ing ants when the deserve 2k rep



People who rant about AC and cause drama supported by 2% of the community and yet have more rep


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#466 Offline lazyant - Posted July 26 2022 - 6:07 PM

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Who are you referring to? Haha


"Loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix." -Comic book guy 

#467 Offline bmb1bee - Posted July 26 2022 - 6:25 PM

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People that work really hard on there journals and ID’ing ants when the deserve 2k rep

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People who rant about AC and cause drama supported by 2% of the community and yet have more rep

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LMAO, I get the second one.


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#468 Offline FloridaAnts - Posted July 26 2022 - 6:31 PM

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Who are you referring to? Haha


Mostly manitobot and active members like ANTdrew(but if rep=cash he would be rich lol), and other people like Nickanter. I will not list them all, but there is few people who are actually dedicated to ID’ing ants or their journals. I kind of mess around on my journals, and I honestly don’t care for rep points now.
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#469 Offline lazyant - Posted July 26 2022 - 6:37 PM

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Who are you referring to? Haha


Mostly manitobot and active members like ANTdrew(but if rep=cash he would be rich lol), and other people like Nickanter. I will not list them all, but there is few people who are actually dedicated to ID’ing ants or their journals. I kind of mess around on my journals, and I honestly don’t care for rep points now.

 

I meant in the second punchline. But still those two amazing members shaped the forum.


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#470 Offline FloridaAnts - Posted July 26 2022 - 6:43 PM

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Who are you referring to? Haha


Mostly manitobot and active members like ANTdrew(but if rep=cash he would be rich lol), and other people like Nickanter. I will not list them all, but there is few people who are actually dedicated to ID’ing ants or their journals. I kind of mess around on my journals, and I honestly don’t care for rep points now.
I meant in the second punchline. But still those two amazing members shaped the forum.

People like Idontexist but who know how to use words better, most are inactive and get 3 likes from the same group of people every post. We should have “invasive ant” or “native ant” under our names :lol:. That way, we know who is number 1 or two(two being invasive ant)
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#471 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 27 2022 - 3:33 AM

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LOL. I got all my rep points answering the same questions thousands of times to help new ant keepers. It would be nice if I could convert them to cash.
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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.

#472 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted July 27 2022 - 4:34 AM

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ichi byo ga keika
ni byo ga keika
san byo ga keika
yom byo ga keika
wu byo ga keika
roku byo ga keika
ROAD ROLLER DA! WRYYYYYYYY


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Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

YouTube: https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)

Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), ★ Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#473 Offline FloridaAnts - Posted July 27 2022 - 11:10 AM

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LOL. I got all my rep points answering the same questions thousands of times to help new ant keepers. It would be nice if I could convert them to cash.

LOL. I got all my rep points answering the same questions thousands of times to help new ant keepers. It would be nice if I could convert them to cash.


I think dspDrew would cash in rep if you got the site over 1M users(Are there that many Antkeepers+termite keepers?) :lol:. Then he could add google adds and get a pretty steady income from here
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#474 Offline ColAnt735 - Posted July 27 2022 - 9:09 PM

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I'm going to post two me mes (memes).  :D

 

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This one is a joke don't take it seriously.

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"If an ant carries an object a hundred times it's weight,you can carry burdens many times your size.

#475 Offline lazyant - Posted July 27 2022 - 9:57 PM

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#476 Offline futurebird - Posted July 30 2022 - 10:08 AM

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Starting this July I'm posting videos of my ants every week on youTube.

I like to make relaxing videos that capture the joy of watching ants.

If that sounds like your kind of thing... follow me >here<. 

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Breaking news: Australian native ant framed as a Fire Ant!

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"If an ant carries an object a hundred times it's weight,you can carry burdens many times your size.

#478 Offline futurebird - Posted July 30 2022 - 1:47 PM

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This is slander!! Poor thing, I wonder if her colony will even talk to her after this. They'll keep call her "fire ant" and tossing her in the water to see if she can float. 


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Starting this July I'm posting videos of my ants every week on youTube.

I like to make relaxing videos that capture the joy of watching ants.

If that sounds like your kind of thing... follow me >here<. 

#479 Offline lazyant - Posted July 30 2022 - 2:20 PM

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The final bosses origin story revealed! 


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#480 Offline Leptomyrmx - Posted July 30 2022 - 2:52 PM

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I was too lazy to add actual images, but this is a sort of meme-format thing:

 

Myrmecia: We're such a cool genus. We're so endemic to Australia, right everyone?

 

Myrmecia apicalis:


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My Ants:

Colonies: Camponotus humilior 1w, Opisthopsis rufithorax 11w, Aphaenogaster longiceps ~5w, Pheidole sp. ~235w ~15m, Iridomyrmex sp. 2q 1w, Brachyponera lutea 6w, Crematogaster sp. ~20w, Podomyrma sp. 1w

Queens: Polyrhachis cf. robinsoni, Polyrhachis (Campomyrma) sp. (likely infertile)

Previously Kept: Colobopsis gasseri, Technomyrmex sp., Rhytidoponera victorae, Nylanderia cf. rosae, Myrmecia brevinoda/forficata, Polyrhachis australis, Solenopsis/Monomorium

Key: Q = Queen, W = Worker, M = Major

Youtube Channel: Ants of Sydney - YouTube

Patreon (for YouTube channel): https://www.patreon.com/antsofsydney

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