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Messor structor being weird

Started By Manitobant , Apr 8 2020 4:24 PM

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#1 Offline Manitobant - Posted April 8 2020 - 4:24 PM

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My messor structor colony is probably the strangest colony I've ever kept. Whenever I feed them or look into the nest, they carry all the brood into the outworld for some reason. Does anyone else have experience with ant colonies doing weird things?
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Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#2 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted April 8 2020 - 4:56 PM

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My messor structor colony is probably the strangest colony I've ever kept. Whenever I feed them or look into the nest, they carry all the brood into the outworld for some reason. Does anyone else have experience with ant colonies doing weird things?

Where in earth would you get a European species???
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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

#3 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted April 8 2020 - 5:14 PM

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I think dracula ants do the same thing, but of course, they're dracula ants, not harvesters. Could there be a connection?


 

My messor structor colony is probably the strangest colony I've ever kept. Whenever I feed them or look into the nest, they carry all the brood into the outworld for some reason. Does anyone else have experience with ant colonies doing weird things?

Where in earth would you get a European species???

 

Maybe from Europe.


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#4 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted April 8 2020 - 5:54 PM

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Is that........ legal?

"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

#5 Offline Manitobant - Posted April 8 2020 - 6:10 PM

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Is that........ legal?

I will make it legal.
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Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#6 Offline FSTP - Posted April 25 2020 - 6:56 AM

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how do you make it legal ?


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#7 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted April 25 2020 - 7:08 AM

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My point exactly.
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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

#8 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted April 25 2020 - 12:45 PM

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Wait, what...


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#9 Offline Manitobant - Posted April 25 2020 - 1:36 PM

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Guys it was a star wars quote...
My journals:

Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#10 Offline Otter - Posted April 25 2020 - 3:44 PM

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My messor structor colony is probably the strangest colony I've ever kept. Whenever I feed them or look into the nest, they carry all the brood into the outworld for some reason. Does anyone else have experience with ant colonies doing weird things?

Where in earth would you get a European species???

Imma guess from europe

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#11 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted April 25 2020 - 3:47 PM

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I assumed that. I guess I was asking how a Canadian could import such a species short of smuggling them in, or getting a permit.

"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

#12 Offline Manitobant - Posted April 25 2020 - 8:30 PM

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Note to self: don't mention you have exotics on a pro native forum
My journals:

Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#13 Offline Otter - Posted April 25 2020 - 10:57 PM

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I assumed that. I guess I was asking how a Canadian could import such a species short of smuggling them in, or getting a permit.

Ding you guessed it, he got them smuggled in. 


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#14 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted April 26 2020 - 7:09 AM

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Note to self: don't mention you have exotics on a pro native forum

I would be fine with it if they were acquired legally.
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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

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