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Tylrs’s Ant Journal

Started By TylrsAnts , Oct 21 2019 5:17 PM

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#1 Offline TylrsAnts - Posted October 21 2019 - 5:17 PM

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So, hi all, I’m pretty new to formiculture (I used to be a no account viewer) and am now starting a journal on all my ants colonies. Any advice would be helpful (I’m located in SoCal). Thanks

#2 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted October 21 2019 - 5:19 PM

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Hi. What ants are you currently keeping?


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

#3 Offline Canadant - Posted October 21 2019 - 5:20 PM

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Socal. I'm Jelly.

Welcome to the forums. There is a thread for journals. Feel free to post away.

Edited by Canadant, October 21 2019 - 5:20 PM.

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"You don't get what you want. You get what you deserve".

#4 Offline TylrsAnts - Posted October 30 2019 - 6:15 PM

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10/30/19
I keep 6 Pheidole spp queens together and have 10+ pupa along with a Pogonomermex spp queen in a dirt thingy.

#5 Offline TylrsAnts - Posted October 30 2019 - 6:19 PM

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Planning to get a camera to take ACTUAL pictures.
So there will be some bad pictures until I invest enough money.
Thanks.

#6 Offline TylrsAnts - Posted November 3 2019 - 4:30 PM

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My pheidole queens have 15+ pupa with one being orange.

#7 Offline TylrsAnts - Posted November 6 2019 - 4:40 PM

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My six pheidole queens just got their 1st Nanitic!

#8 Offline TylrsAnts - Posted November 14 2019 - 8:35 PM

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Sorry for the late update, my queen now has 7+ workers.
Pic of setup:

#9 Offline TylrsAnts - Posted November 14 2019 - 8:37 PM

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How do you post pics?
Dosen’t post for me

#10 Offline camponotuskeeper - Posted November 14 2019 - 9:01 PM

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There are different ways but people have already made a thread about this somewhere

#11 Offline TylrsAnts - Posted November 20 2019 - 7:22 PM

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Ok. Thanks.
By the way, by the time I found out that my pheidole queens were either p. Navigate or p. Morens, the workers began attacking queens. Any help on what to do?

#12 Offline Formicoidea - Posted November 20 2019 - 7:36 PM

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Ok. Thanks.
By the way, by the time I found out that my pheidole queens were either p. Navigate or p. Morens, the workers began attacking queens. Any help on what to do?

 

did you add workers from another colony?


Current Queens/Colonies:

- Iridomyrmex Bicknelli                          - Iridomyrmex Sp. (x2)

- Camponotus Consobrinus                - Camponotus Sp.

- Myrmecia Sp.                                        - Rhytidoponera Metallica

- Rhytidoponera victoriae                       - Notoncus Sp. (x2)

- Anonychomyrma Cf. Froggatti (x6)

#13 Offline Mdrogun - Posted November 21 2019 - 1:54 AM

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Ok. Thanks.
By the way, by the time I found out that my pheidole queens were either p. Navigate or p. Morens, the workers began attacking queens. Any help on what to do?

If you can, you can separate them, as long as the queen(s) separated are given some workers. However, Pheidole navigans and Pheidole moerens are very common, so I wouldn't sweat it, you'll likely be able to find many more next year. I'd just let them fight it out.


Currently Keeping:
Trachymyrmex septentrionalis

Pheidole pilifera

Forelius sp. (Monogynous, bicolored) "Midwestern Forelius"
Crematogaster cerasi

Pheidole bicarinata

Aphaenogaster rudis

Camponotus chromaiodes

Formica sp. (microgena species)

Nylanderia cf. arenivega

#14 Offline TylrsAnts - Posted November 26 2019 - 11:04 AM

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OK. I did and it turns out that there is only one queen left which is doing fine. Thx ender Ants.


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#15 Offline TylrsAnts - Posted November 26 2019 - 11:06 AM

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Yeah, they are pretty common. At my school, if I caught every queen that flew, I would have come home with 300 or more queens.
I mean, Mdrogun. Sorry.
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#16 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted November 27 2019 - 9:53 AM

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Sounds like Lasius.


"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

#17 Offline TylrsAnts - Posted February 3 2020 - 6:36 PM

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Nah, I just got a major.


#18 Offline TylrsAnts - Posted July 10 2020 - 1:39 PM

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So, after a long period of ant keeping burn out. I have finally returned. I caught a Pogonomermex queen that appears to be a semi claustral species of pogonomermex. I also caught another Pogonomermex queen that appears to be fully claustral. 


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#19 Offline TylrsAnts - Posted July 10 2020 - 1:53 PM

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Pics of the semi claustral queen.
Pics

#20 Offline TylrsAnts - Posted July 10 2020 - 1:54 PM

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Nvm. Can’t post pics:
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