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Exotic Ants Spotting Thread

Started By Antennal_Scrobe , Oct 12 2019 2:59 PM
anting temperate tropical exotic indoor

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#1 Offline Antennal_Scrobe - Posted October 12 2019 - 2:59 PM

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There are spotting threads for cryptic and arboreal ants, so I thought I would make one for people who want to find tropical ants like Paratrechina longicornis, or even temperate ants from other areas, in indoor locations like greenhouses. I, for one, would like to search the Mitchell Park Domes in Milwaukee at some point, as well as the greenhouses at the local garden centers.


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Tetramorium immigrans, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Myrmica punctiventris, Formica subsericea

Formica pallidefulva, Aphaeogaster cf. rudis

Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Camponotus nearcticus

Crematogaster cerasi

Temnothorax ambiguus

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#2 Offline Manitobant - Posted October 12 2019 - 3:02 PM

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In the rainforest exhibit at the zoo here in Winnipeg I've found tetramorium bicarinatum, tapinoma melanocephalum, nylanderia fulva and monomorium pharaonis. I currently have a colony of the former two.
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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/

#3 Offline Antennal_Scrobe - Posted October 12 2019 - 3:06 PM

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What is the exhibit like? Is it a sort of heated, indoor garden, like the Domes?


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Tetramorium immigrans, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Myrmica punctiventris, Formica subsericea

Formica pallidefulva, Aphaeogaster cf. rudis

Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Camponotus nearcticus

Crematogaster cerasi

Temnothorax ambiguus

Prenolepis imparis

#4 Offline Manitobant - Posted October 12 2019 - 3:16 PM

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Its basically a giant dome filled with animal exhibits and exotic plants.
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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/

#5 Offline Antennal_Scrobe - Posted October 12 2019 - 3:45 PM

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So very similar! 


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Tetramorium immigrans, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Myrmica punctiventris, Formica subsericea

Formica pallidefulva, Aphaeogaster cf. rudis

Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Camponotus nearcticus

Crematogaster cerasi

Temnothorax ambiguus

Prenolepis imparis

#6 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted October 12 2019 - 4:03 PM

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Solenopsis invicta and rchrti.... Everywhere...... On everything....

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#7 Offline Antennal_Scrobe - Posted October 12 2019 - 4:11 PM

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Solenopsis invicta and rchrti.... Everywhere...... On everything....

Just to clarify, by "exotic", I mean ants that aren't normally local. Like tropical ants in a greenhouse, rare invasives (Like Brachyponera in Wisconsin.), or foreign ants in a flower pot, rather than local invasive ants like these.


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Currently keeping:

 

Tetramorium immigrans, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Myrmica punctiventris, Formica subsericea

Formica pallidefulva, Aphaeogaster cf. rudis

Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Camponotus nearcticus

Crematogaster cerasi

Temnothorax ambiguus

Prenolepis imparis

#8 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted October 12 2019 - 4:23 PM

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Oh.... Ok.... :rofl:
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#9 Offline ponerinecat - Posted October 12 2019 - 5:35 PM

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Solenopsis invicta and rchrti.... Everywhere...... On everything....

apparently they crossbred richteri and xyloni


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#10 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted October 12 2019 - 7:26 PM

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I know. And there's Solenopsis invicta x rchrti.

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