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All my inverts

Started By ponerinecat , Dec 9 2019 5:13 PM

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#221 Offline ponerinecat - Posted June 5 2020 - 9:25 AM

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Cyphoderidae sp. An exceedingly common soil dwelling group, and often found in ant nests.


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#222 Offline ANTdrew - Posted June 5 2020 - 9:35 AM

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Cyphoderidae sp. An exceedingly common soil dwelling group, and often found in ant nests.

Good to know. Thanks!
I had these living in a sealed jar terrarium, which I left totally unattended in the teachers’ lounge of my school since March. I was able to pick it up on Tuesday, and both the plants and springtails are doing great. I added in some new springtails today, including Isotomidae.

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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.

#223 Offline ponerinecat - Posted June 9 2020 - 8:09 AM

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Just caught some more ligium and the small pink sp, third times the charm. The murina and granulatum have also had their first manca under my care, and my Cyphoderidae are starting to boom.


#224 Offline ponerinecat - Posted June 10 2020 - 10:52 AM

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Cubaris murina manca

 

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Armadillidium granulatum manca

 

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Octoglena anura, finally found another one! Sadly, its only one.

 

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Polyxenids are having a party.

 

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#225 Offline ponerinecat - Posted June 11 2020 - 7:29 PM

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An early version of the Porcellio scaber lava morph.

 

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An orange Porcellionides pruinosus, getting a lot of these.

 

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And a very small, very pretty species of earwig. Adults are the same size as Liometopum workers.

 

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#226 Offline ponerinecat - Posted June 13 2020 - 9:12 AM

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The small earwigs (labia minor) are certainly fun to watch. They dig individual tunnels, are very active, territorial but not aggressive, and extremely nervous. Whenever I open their container one or two on the surface scramble to find a tunnel, and I see others already inside of their tunnels poke their heads out or stick their antennae out to gauge the situation. They feed nervously, bobbing up and down as they scrape tiny pieces off the food, and when another individual comes to check it out the more dominant one charges at them rear fist, often missing completely but still scaring off their competitor. I believe I can occasionally hear some form of stridulation but it could just be natural noise caused by movements. Thinking about getting some ring legged earwigs as well.


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#227 Offline ponerinecat - Posted June 15 2020 - 9:01 AM

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More octos

 

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Also found a single Hesperonemastoma modestum, which is a cool find.

 

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#228 Offline ponerinecat - Posted June 17 2020 - 5:07 PM

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Doing well.

 

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#229 Offline ponerinecat - Posted June 21 2020 - 6:13 PM

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Labia minor have babies! They run all over the place.

 

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Adult and young compared with a fish pellet and crushed yeast flakes.

 

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Brachycibe like to roam around at night. I was able to solve the mystery of them curling up en mass as well, they were just shedding. For some reason they all do it together in the same place at roughly the same time. Interesting behavior.

 

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#230 Offline ponerinecat - Posted June 27 2020 - 7:52 AM

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My Temnothorax have a deformed worker. One of the tergites on the gaster (I believe the one normally found below the first) has moved up to the side. Makes the gaster look heart shaped, and seems to reduce the total amount of food she can store.

 

 

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Caught this cute maculatum playing with his food. It's a male, as if you look at the pleopods underneath the pleon you can see that the genital projection characteristic of male isopods is present.

 

 

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Cubaris murina are doing well, already more mancae are being dropped. This one decided to give my finger a hug.

 

 

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Entomobrya unostrigata are doing pretty well.

 

 

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And my Camponotus hyatti got her first naitics.

 

 

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#231 Offline ponerinecat - Posted June 29 2020 - 8:38 AM

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Obtained some great moss  :)

 

 

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#232 Offline ponerinecat - Posted July 1 2020 - 6:09 PM

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Testing the new camera on some inverts.

 

 

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#233 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted July 1 2020 - 6:12 PM

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Wow. These are some awesome photos, especially the two isopod ones at the top. What are those little guys called?


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#234 Offline ponerinecat - Posted July 1 2020 - 6:28 PM

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Wow. These are some awesome photos, especially the two isopod ones at the top. What are those little guys called?

Armadillidium maculatum.


#235 Offline ponerinecat - Posted July 2 2020 - 2:59 PM

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Most of the Camponotus have 1-2 nanitics, the Hyatti have a stunning 5. Got some nice pics.

 

 

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Let the Armadillidium vulgare go. I may pick some up again if I find an interesting enough morph that can be bred into a population.

 

 

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Calicina are still doing well, as are the Ortholasma, but so far no sign of reproduction.

 

 

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#236 Offline ponerinecat - Posted July 5 2020 - 7:04 PM

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New springtail! These steel blue Lepidocyrtus sp. popped up in my Cubaris murina habitat, likely came in on the rotted pine wood I gave them.

 

 

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#237 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 6 2020 - 5:48 AM

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Even better photos. What kind of camera did you get?
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#238 Offline ponerinecat - Posted July 6 2020 - 7:55 AM

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Even better photos. What kind of camera did you get?

Nikon D3300


#239 Offline ponerinecat - Posted July 9 2020 - 12:26 PM

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Pics of a cute emerald that came my lights.

 

 

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#240 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 9 2020 - 12:33 PM

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Nice! 


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

 

                    

                   

 

 

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