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How long have you been keeping ants?

Started By Ants_Dakota , Feb 16 2020 11:26 AM
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#1 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted February 16 2020 - 11:26 AM

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So, running off of the most recent topics, i would like to start this topic out of curiosity of how many years you have been keeping ants. I have been keeping ants for 5 years now.


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#2 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted February 16 2020 - 12:18 PM

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5.3 years. I still have my first queen too. She's a Formica pacifica queen with 2-3,000 workers.

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#3 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted February 16 2020 - 12:39 PM

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Technically about 2 years or so.


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#4 Offline Ants4fun - Posted February 16 2020 - 12:43 PM

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6 years and counting

#5 Offline Manitobant - Posted February 16 2020 - 1:06 PM

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3 and a half years.
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#6 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted February 16 2020 - 2:43 PM

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So, running off of the most recent topics, i would like to start this topic out of curiosity of how many years you have been keeping ants. I have been keeping ants for 5 years now.

We started together, so the same.


"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

 

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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

#7 Offline ponerinecat - Posted February 16 2020 - 2:47 PM

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6 years. Half my life.


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#8 Offline Major - Posted February 16 2020 - 3:59 PM

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Edited by Major, February 16 2020 - 3:59 PM.


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#9 Offline CheetoLord02 - Posted February 16 2020 - 10:06 PM

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Only under 2 years for me. Got my first colony, a C. pennsylvanicus with 8 workers on May 22 2018, and I still have that colony with around 200 workers now
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#10 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted February 17 2020 - 9:23 AM

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You're lucky you still have your first colony.


"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

#11 Offline kgollehon - Posted February 17 2020 - 10:42 AM

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3 years!
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#12 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 17 2020 - 10:59 AM

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Nearing the 1.5 year mark


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#13 Offline NickAnter - Posted February 17 2020 - 6:16 PM

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Just about 1.5 years. Caught my first queen about 6 years ago, but I never knew how to keeps them. I really started keeping ants in the summer of 2018.


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). 

#14 Offline Acutus - Posted February 18 2020 - 11:35 AM

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April will be one year.  :D


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#15 Offline ForestDragon - Posted February 18 2020 - 12:44 PM

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this is my 3-4th year, this is my first year I've had stuff make it through hibernation, usually all my ants die


#16 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 18 2020 - 3:09 PM

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congrats!


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#17 Offline AntHUB - Posted February 18 2020 - 3:17 PM

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since june 2016


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#18 Offline AntHUB - Posted February 18 2020 - 3:21 PM

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Over that time I have kept over 30 species of ants, over 500 colonies, caught approximately 800-1000 queens, and kept over 50,000 ants. I have sold or traded  approximately $1200 of colonies this year and last, and lost at least 400 of them during that time almost always due to travel. Some of my favorites include carebara longii, odontomachus ruginodis, and hypoponera. I have truly embraced this hobby and have started getting more interested in the photography and taxony side of it as well.


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#19 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 18 2020 - 3:22 PM

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wow, you're like a veteran at antkeeping


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#20 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 18 2020 - 3:23 PM

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Except a veteran that refused to go out of the ant keeping army so cleverly disguised himself and did even more in his new career and then became the head of the whole army 


There is a important time for everything, important place for everyone, an important person for everybody, and an important ant for each and every ant keeper and myrmecologist alike

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