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Started By ponerinecat , Dec 9 2019 5:13 PM

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#321 Offline ANTdrew - Posted September 12 2020 - 9:24 AM

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Woah, hold up. What are Neanura?
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#322 Offline Antkid12 - Posted September 12 2020 - 9:42 AM

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Woah, hold up. What are Neanura?

I searched it up, Its a genus of springtails.


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

 

                    

                   

 

 

#323 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 12 2020 - 10:22 AM

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Woah, hold up. What are Neanura?

Small neanurid springtails, resemble warty, wrinkly, hairy jellybeans. Move slowly and can't jump. Often purple/blue or rarely pale white.


#324 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 12 2020 - 10:34 AM

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Moved some Ligium to a pair of little cork islands floating in a 5 gallon aquarium of amphipods. Hope they do better in here, with direct access to clean water.

 

 

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Found an astonishing 4 ironclads under a log, each smaller than the rest.

 

 

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And I finally found a suitable food fungus for the Brachycibe growing in my tank. This will have to keep them alive until i can get more in winter.

 

 

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#325 Offline ANTdrew - Posted September 12 2020 - 12:05 PM

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Woah, hold up. What are Neanura?

Small neanurid springtails, resemble warty, wrinkly, hairy jellybeans. Move slowly and can't jump. Often purple/blue or rarely pale white.
Sounds like a cool species.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#326 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 16 2020 - 2:37 PM

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First globs of the year.

 

 

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#327 Offline ANTdrew - Posted September 16 2020 - 6:10 PM

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I found the coolest springtail today under a piece of bark. It was huge (3mm) and shiny black. I wasn’t sure it was a springtail until it sprung away from me, never to be found again.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#328 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 17 2020 - 12:19 PM

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I found the coolest springtail today under a piece of bark. It was huge (3mm) and shiny black. I wasn’t sure it was a springtail until it sprung away from me, never to be found again.

Sounds like Tomocerus or maybe Orchesella. Something in sierinae may be possible to. I still need to find out how to culture those big ones.


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#329 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 19 2020 - 10:31 AM

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Undescribed Seira species, listed as sp 13 under bugguide.

 

 

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Entomobrya atrocincta are out and about again.

 

 

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#330 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 20 2020 - 8:41 AM

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Tiny Isotoma viridris.

 

 

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#331 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 21 2020 - 4:49 PM

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So apparently that wasn't Isotoma at all. Not sure what it is. But heres an Isotomurus.

 

 

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Comparison between Seira sp 13 and Entomobrya atrocincta.

 

 

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Unknown purple entomobryan.

 

 

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#332 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 23 2020 - 12:39 PM

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https://www.nature.c...icles/srep11957New insight on culturing poduromorphs, if anyones interested.


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#333 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 24 2020 - 4:31 PM

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Brachycibe rosea. Noticed individuals collected at higher elevations are darker than those collected locally. 

 

 

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Those myrmecophilous silverfish from a while ago are still alive, which is surprising.

 

 

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And the onychiuridae are doing very well, always a good sign.

 

 

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#334 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 25 2020 - 12:56 PM

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Second soldier!

 

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#335 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 27 2020 - 8:07 AM

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Pheidole have developed a sort of median worker, not quite major or minor.

 

 

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#336 Offline TechAnt - Posted September 27 2020 - 8:33 AM

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Ooh, interesting. What sp. is that?
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

#337 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted September 27 2020 - 8:42 AM

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I do not want to be bitten by that soldier!

#338 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 27 2020 - 9:05 AM

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Ooh, interesting. What sp. is that?

No idea, Steven Wang said one of the californica group.

 

I do not want to be bitten by that soldier!

Not even a full major yet.


#339 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted September 27 2020 - 9:09 AM

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Ooh, interesting. What sp. is that?

No idea, Steven Wang said one of the californica group.

I do not want to be bitten by that soldier!

Not even a full major yet.
Well it still looks threatening...

#340 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 29 2020 - 2:11 PM

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All the termites died, maybe due to nematodes.


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