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What are is your favorite exotic(s) that you wish you could keep?

Started By TechAnt , Aug 6 2020 6:40 PM
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#1 Offline TechAnt - Posted August 6 2020 - 6:40 PM

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First thing, please don’t kill each other in an argument about exotics. That’s not what this thread is about, I know that happens a lot when talking about exotics here.

So, what is your favorite exotic ant / ants that you wish you could keep?

My top 4 list:
Atta spp.
African Honeypot spp.
Asian Odontomachus spp.
Myrmecia spp.

Edited by TechAnt, August 7 2020 - 11:43 AM.

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My Ants:
(x1) Campontous semitstaceus ~20 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Camponotus vicinus ~10 workers, 1 Queen (all black variety)
(x1) Tetramorium immigrans ~100 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Myrmercocystus mexicanus -1 Queen
(x2) Mymercocystus mimcus -1 Queen
(x1) Mymercocystus testaceus ~45 workers, 1 Queen

#2 Offline ANTdrew - Posted August 6 2020 - 6:55 PM

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Not sexy, but Lasius niger and Crematogaster scutellaris.
Edit: Oh and Lasius emarginatus!

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#3 Offline NickAnter - Posted August 6 2020 - 7:02 PM

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Oecophylla smaragdina, Lasius fuliginosus, Mystrium sp, Myrmecia fulvipes, Rhytidoponera aspersa, Carebara affinis, and Gigantiops destructor(forgot about them)


Edited by NickAnter, August 7 2020 - 7:01 AM.

Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#4 Offline SleepyAsianAnter - Posted August 6 2020 - 7:11 PM

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Gigantiops destructor, Harpagnethos venator, Dinoponera gigas, and O D O N T O M A C H U S


#5 Offline Manitobant - Posted August 6 2020 - 7:45 PM

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Solenopsis invicta, solenopsis invicta, solenopsis invicta, solenopsis invicta, and did i mention solenopsis invicta?
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#6 Offline TechAnt - Posted August 6 2020 - 8:06 PM

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Solenopsis invicta, solenopsis invicta, solenopsis invicta, solenopsis invicta, and did i mention solenopsis invicta?


Why would you want to keep Solenopsis invicta lol, they are meanies..
My Ants:
(x1) Campontous semitstaceus ~20 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Camponotus vicinus ~10 workers, 1 Queen (all black variety)
(x1) Tetramorium immigrans ~100 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Myrmercocystus mexicanus -1 Queen
(x2) Mymercocystus mimcus -1 Queen
(x1) Mymercocystus testaceus ~45 workers, 1 Queen

#7 Offline AnthonyP163 - Posted August 6 2020 - 8:45 PM

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I would keep a trimorphic Pheidole


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#8 Offline CheetoLord02 - Posted August 6 2020 - 8:48 PM

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Polyrhachis ypsilon, easily.


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#9 Offline Otter - Posted August 6 2020 - 8:55 PM

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Pheidole rhea, 14mm desert crematogaster, iridomyrmex purpureus, atta cephalotes but the bicolor variant, and I'm sure there's skme really cool obscure rainforest sp in South America and southern Africa.

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#10 Offline BlueLance213 - Posted August 7 2020 - 3:32 AM

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Saharan Silver Ants.

 

Also ANTdrew, the fact that Lasius niger is exotic for you made me chuckle because in Scotland its beyond common XD


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#11 Offline 1Shadow1 - Posted August 7 2020 - 4:10 AM

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Myrmecocystus


#12 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted August 7 2020 - 4:40 AM

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Some Cephalotes would be nice.


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#13 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 7 2020 - 5:26 AM

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Dolichoderus scaribdus. Cyphomyrmex wheeleri. Camponotus consobrinus. Dorymyrmex bicolor (I know it’s a U.S species but still). Opisthopsis. Pinkomyrmex floyderus (always wanted to keep a giant, whale eating, and cloud dwelling species).

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#14 Offline Antkid12 - Posted August 7 2020 - 5:37 AM

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Carabara affinis, Pheidole rhea, Atta sp , Lasius niger, Orecthognathus verisicolor or Daceton armigerum , and Pheidole biconstricta. 


Edited by Antkid12, August 7 2020 - 5:37 AM.

Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 

#15 Offline to_be_announced - Posted August 7 2020 - 5:38 AM

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I would love to keep some Odontomachus ants if they were native to where I live.


Currently keeping Tetramorium Immigrans and Camponotus Pennsylvanicus in THA mini hearths.  I also have a couple Prenolepis Imparus queens in test tubes.

#16 Offline Antkid12 - Posted August 7 2020 - 5:41 AM

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First thing, please don’t kill each other in an argument about exotics. That’s not what this thread is about, I know that happens a lot when talking about exotics here.

So, what is your favorite exotic ant / ants that you wish you could keep?

My top 4 list:
Atta spp.
African Myrmecoystus spp.
Asian Odontomachus spp.
Myrmecia spp.

There are no Myrmecocystus in africa.


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Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 

#17 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted August 7 2020 - 6:15 AM

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Odontomachus, Myrmecia, Rhytidoponera, huge Pheidole, exotic Camponotus, South American Atta.


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Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#18 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted August 7 2020 - 7:14 AM

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Mine is actually harvester ants because when I first started abt keeping messor was the only ant I really saw cause I would watch robjs ants and novo ants stuff like that. So when I found out Pogonomyrmex was one that shipped and it was a harvester ant I decided to get me a p occidentalis queen from THA and it should be here soon I got a set up and everything. Edit I guess it’s exotic as we have have no harvester ants in va but now we kinda do.

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We don’t talk about that

#19 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted August 7 2020 - 8:12 AM

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First thing, please don’t kill each other in an argument about exotics. That’s not what this thread is about, I know that happens a lot when talking about exotics here.

So, what is your favorite exotic ant / ants that you wish you could keep?

My top 4 list:
Atta spp.
African Myrmecoystus spp.
Asian Odontomachus spp.
Myrmecia spp.

There are no Myrmecocystus in africa.

 

I was literally about to point that out...


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#20 Offline Spazmops - Posted August 7 2020 - 8:47 AM

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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

 

 

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