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Da_NewAntOnTheBlock's Ant Journal (Discontinued)

Started By Da_NewAntOnTheBlock , Sep 29 2019 7:13 AM
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#181 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted March 9 2020 - 7:38 AM

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Up here in South Dakota, we don't get to choose if we want to keep ants, we have to! There are so few nuptial flights, that all queens are good queens :D!


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#182 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted March 9 2020 - 12:23 PM

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Well, I wouldn’t say that exactly....... it’s just super easy to find the plain species and so hard to find the more interesting ones.

"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

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Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#183 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted March 9 2020 - 5:28 PM

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Well, I wouldn’t say that exactly....... it’s just super easy to find the plain species and so hard to find the more interesting ones.

You wouldn't reject a queen, would you?


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#184 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted March 12 2020 - 3:57 AM

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Queen Aphrodite moved her legs [barley] when I took the lid of the container off, but she hasn't been able to do much since...
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#185 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted March 12 2020 - 8:23 AM

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Queen Aphrodite moved her legs [barley] when I took the lid of the container off, but she hasn't been able to do much since...

What do you mean by that. is she dying?


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#186 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted March 12 2020 - 12:24 PM

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Well, I wouldn’t say that exactly....... it’s just super easy to find the plain species and so hard to find the more interesting ones.

You wouldn't reject a queen, would you?
If you lived in Rapid and Pogonomyrmex flew en mass every year, would you reject a queen?
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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

#187 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted March 12 2020 - 12:36 PM

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Well, I wouldn’t say that exactly....... it’s just super easy to find the plain species and so hard to find the more interesting ones.

You wouldn't reject a queen, would you?
If you lived in Rapid and Pogonomyrmex flew en mass every year, would you reject a queen?

 

I guess that is true, but i mean here in SD.


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#188 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted March 12 2020 - 12:38 PM

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My point is, rejecting a queen is irrelevant to diversity and rarity. It just depends on what the keeper wants.
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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

#189 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted March 12 2020 - 3:38 PM

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Aphrodite is alive and more 'alive', so she's just not a morning person...I also went looking for the amber queen and only found two Lasius Aphicola queens. I think she got munched on... 


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#190 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted March 12 2020 - 3:49 PM

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Oh no! So, I am still kinda confused on the story...so one of your queens ran away, and so you were trying to find her?


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#191 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted March 12 2020 - 3:54 PM

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nah, I just couldn't find her today which was unfortunate but you can't get 'em all...


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#192 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted March 12 2020 - 6:11 PM

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Ok :)


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#193 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted March 14 2020 - 9:06 AM

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Hey a mini update but queen Selene hasn't laid in quite a while so I was wondering if I should move her into a test tube again. Any advice?


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#194 Offline ANTdrew - Posted March 14 2020 - 9:42 AM

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Definitely not. It will only stress her more and will make no difference. She’s either not warm enough, too disturbed, or possibly just a dud. Keep patient.
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#195 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted March 14 2020 - 9:44 AM

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ok, I'll try


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#196 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted March 14 2020 - 9:46 AM

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The temp in my room is 76, is that good enough?


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#197 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted March 14 2020 - 10:00 AM

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I don't see why not. My room is a little lower than that, and my formica have laid eggs.


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Attention Ant-Keepers in South Dakota! Join the SoDak(Society Of Dakotan Ant Keepers)

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#198 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted March 14 2020 - 10:34 AM

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Hey a mini update but queen Selene hasn't laid in quite a while so I was wondering if I should move her into a test tube again. Any advice?

If mold hasn’t taken over the tube, don’t move her. I would recommend lengthening the time between checkups.

"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

#199 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted March 14 2020 - 12:58 PM

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she's in a mini-hearth and would lay in her tube, but hasn't in the mini-hearth is what I'm saying


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#200 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted March 14 2020 - 1:13 PM

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I still would lengthen time between checkups.

"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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