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#1 Offline Vendayn - Posted April 9 2015 - 3:16 PM

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#2 Offline Ants4fun - Posted April 9 2015 - 3:30 PM

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Congrats! You can also add more queens as you find more!



#3 Offline Vendayn - Posted April 9 2015 - 4:21 PM

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#4 Offline Ants4fun - Posted April 9 2015 - 4:23 PM

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I meant that you could catch them from nuptial flights!



#5 Offline Vendayn - Posted April 9 2015 - 4:45 PM

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#6 Offline Vendayn - Posted April 9 2015 - 6:48 PM

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#7 Offline Vendayn - Posted April 10 2015 - 11:14 AM

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#8 Offline Vendayn - Posted April 12 2015 - 8:07 PM

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#9 Offline SMILEforAnts - Posted April 12 2015 - 8:45 PM

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Yeah fluon is a godsend!

 

And they probably have a laid back personality because you know what they say about California.....the best weed is grown there and you know the air must be filled with a little something something if you know what I mean! lol jk. Good luck with them though!


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#10 Offline Vendayn - Posted April 13 2015 - 4:19 PM

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I found a dying Camponutus queen, swarmed by Argentine ants. Queen was yuge. I froze her and gave her to the Pheidole colony. I put a piece of chicken too, which had a few ants eating it. But,less than 5 minutes hundreds of ants were already getting the Camponotus queen. A huge, one inch sized queen meal for them. :)

#11 Offline AntLover101 - Posted April 13 2015 - 4:24 PM

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"Queen sized meal" :lol: :lol:
I wanna get my hands on some Campontus Pennsylvanicus or Ponera Pennsylvanica Queens!:D

#12 Offline Vendayn - Posted April 13 2015 - 4:46 PM

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Haha! Yup. :P

Also, like I said in smile's journal of his pheidole colony. I'm glad I probably got two queens. I don't want as many ants in that fast of a time period. :P I wouldn't know what to do lol.

#13 Offline dspdrew - Posted April 14 2015 - 5:42 AM

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Where'd you find the Camponotus queen?



#14 Offline Vendayn - Posted April 14 2015 - 10:27 AM

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Along the sidewalk. On the other side of the hill is a bunch of trees and other stuff (can't really see it). I've never been there because its blocked off, but Solenopsis invicta are over there too. And, some other species I never got an ID on (maybe another type of Camponotus, or a Formica species). They fenced the entire area off though, so I can't even get onto the hillside.

 

The Camponotus queen was big, pure black and very shiny too. Reminded me of a Camponotus modoc queen I found up in Yosemite a few years ago. Looked pretty much the same. Do we have any species that are similar down here?



#15 Offline dspdrew - Posted April 14 2015 - 1:04 PM

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Did it have white hairs?



#16 Offline Vendayn - Posted April 14 2015 - 7:17 PM

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Well, I looked at the leftover abdomen and yeah, it has white hairs. I see Camponotus modoc has those, but I thought that was a northern California species. I'll have to see if I can't find an actual living queen, tomorrow. It be great to have a colony of them, without going 9 hour drive north. :P From my understanding, their colonies get really huge. Unless there is a similar looking species down here.



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#20 Offline Vendayn - Posted May 6 2015 - 9:53 PM

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Something I've observed of Pheidole moerens, that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere. They are mostly active at night. When I have the heat lamp on, I barely see any out. At night, I turn it off and they become a lot more active. However, I have seen them active in shady areas in the day time or on cooler days. So, they seem to like cooler temperatures, which may account for them becoming active when I turn off the heat lamp.






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