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What ant genus/species do you dream of keeping?

Started By TheMicroPlanet , Dec 15 2019 3:27 PM

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#61 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted January 11 2020 - 2:52 PM

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When telling someone something the don't know-

 

 

"Worker ants don't lay eggs, ya'know."

 

"Gotcha." (I see, I understand)


"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

#62 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted January 11 2020 - 2:59 PM

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Can't some workers (of some species) lay male eggs in times of distress?


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#63 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted January 11 2020 - 3:04 PM

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Can't some workers (of some species) lay male eggs in times of distress?


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#64 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted January 11 2020 - 3:07 PM

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I would say a lot of species. To me the behavior sounds pretty primitive, but Lasius do it. I've seen them.


"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

#65 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted January 11 2020 - 3:36 PM

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It might be primitive but it sounds like a great last-ditch chance to propogate your genetic code 


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#66 Offline NickAnter - Posted January 11 2020 - 4:41 PM

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Another genus I really like is Mystrium.  And on the whole slang stuff, I too know hardly any of it, as I don't associate with the goons obsessed with keeping up with the latest trends.  I basically talk to the same(normal) people every day.


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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). 

#67 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted January 11 2020 - 5:01 PM

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Another genus I really like is Mystrium.  And on the whole slang stuff, I too know hardly any of it, as I don't associate with the goons obsessed with keeping up with the latest trends.  I basically talk to the same(normal) people every day.

The whole English language is on a one way route to gibberish if people keep talking with slang. And wow that's a really cool ant!


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#68 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted January 11 2020 - 6:05 PM

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I've never heard it either, which is why I assumed ANTdrew said it. Must be an East Coast thing, ya'know.

I've never heard it either.


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#69 Offline Amazant - Posted January 11 2020 - 6:12 PM

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Cephalotes, Banded sugar ant, Odontomachus, Myrmecocystus, and polyrhachis dives would be my dream ants.
Colonies: Formica pallidefulva, Lasius neoniger, Camponotus decipiens, Camponotus sp, Camponotus Vicinus, Crematogaster Sp

#70 Offline ponerinecat - Posted January 11 2020 - 6:19 PM

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mystrium are amazing. recently labeled one of the two fastest animals in the world.


#71 Offline NickAnter - Posted January 11 2020 - 6:20 PM

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Oh, I totally forgot about Cephalotes!  Yeah, that would be my dream genus.


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). 

#72 Offline PacificNorthWestern - Posted January 11 2020 - 7:00 PM

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def not an east coast thing...


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#73 Offline AnthonyP163 - Posted January 11 2020 - 8:10 PM

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My dream species would be Solenyergobopcropygastennametopumessorbardontoecophyllamoriumyrmexenogasterhacheciaonotiodolipithema geminvictloninstructorudissimpressaragdinapiculatucutiversalocephalumilricorufescenigropacinclavatarenarius.

 

The second line is the species name.  ;)


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#74 Offline ponerinecat - Posted January 12 2020 - 10:14 AM

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My dream species would be Solenyergobopcropygastennametopumessorbardontoecophyllamoriumyrmexenogasterhacheciaonotiodolipithema geminvictloninstructorudissimpressaragdinapiculatucutiversalocephalumilricorufescenigropacinclavatarenarius.

 

The second line is the species name.  ;)

DO I SEE LINEPITHEMA IN THERE


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#75 Offline Manitobant - Posted January 12 2020 - 4:58 PM

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I would also really want to keep neivamyrmex nigrescens or another subterranean army ant species. I've been thinking about making a special nomadic setup for them that involves a mess of nests and outworlds connected with tubing.
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Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
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#76 Offline ponerinecat - Posted January 12 2020 - 8:42 PM

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Ask Purdue entomology, he's had a decent run with them.


#77 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted January 13 2020 - 5:34 AM

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Shoot, I forgot about Nomamyrmex esenbeckii! Only the best Doryline in the world! Heavily armored, beautifully colored, and they freaking attack fully grown Atta and Acromyrmex colonies and win just to eat!


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#78 Offline ponerinecat - Posted January 13 2020 - 4:04 PM

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Shoot, I forgot about Nomamyrmex esenbeckii! Only the best Doryline in the world! Heavily armored, beautifully colored, and they freaking attack fully grown Atta and Acromyrmex colonies and win just to eat!

Don't forget the hairy tufted males. Only way I can remember these is hairy males.


#79 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted January 13 2020 - 4:04 PM

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 they freaking attack fully grown Atta and Acromyrmex colonies and win just to eat!

But I like leafcutters.....  :(


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"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

#80 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted January 13 2020 - 5:03 PM

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Shoot, I forgot about Nomamyrmex esenbeckii! Only the best Doryline in the world! Heavily armored, beautifully colored, and they freaking attack fully grown Atta and Acromyrmex colonies and win just to eat!

Don't forget the hairy tufted males. Only way I can remember these is hairy males.

 

Oof...

 

 

 they freaking attack fully grown Atta and Acromyrmex colonies and win just to eat!

But I like leafcutters.....  :(

 

Yeah but still, it's insane. They're the only species in the world who can take them on.


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Camponotus chromaiodes, Camponotus nearcticus, Stigmatomma pallipes, Strumigenys brevisetosa, Strumigenys clypeata, Strumigenys louisianae, Strumigenys membranifera, Strumigenys reflexa, Strumigenys rostrata

 

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