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Giant Springtails

Started By RushmoreAnts , Apr 11 2020 12:07 PM

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#1 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted April 11 2020 - 12:07 PM

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They’re as large as a Camponotus queen!

https://en.m.wikiped...i/Holacanthella
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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

#2 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted April 11 2020 - 12:10 PM

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That's huge. How high can they jump?


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#3 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted April 11 2020 - 12:12 PM

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They can’t jump.

"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

#4 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted April 11 2020 - 12:14 PM

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I'm suddenly not interested in them anymore.


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#5 Offline RVAOsprey - Posted April 11 2020 - 12:39 PM

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Wow so cool. I love the vibrant colors on the exterior nodules


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#6 Offline ANTdrew - Posted April 11 2020 - 2:05 PM

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So amazing! Sounds like they’re on trouble, though. They only live in mature forest in New Zealand.
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#7 Offline ponerinecat - Posted April 11 2020 - 8:12 PM

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New Zealand has the highest springtail diversity in the world, as far as I know, combined with New Caldonia, which also has a fair share of bizzare isopods. The inability to jump is common in such large poduromorpha. The jumping organ, the furca, is absent or reduced. I myself have 2-3 species unable to jump. Extremely large poduromorphs are actually quite common in New Zealand and Caldonia, although none get quite as big as these. Large entomobryomorphs, meanwhile, can jump 1/3 of a foot from an elevated position. This makes them super hard to catch, and aggravate me to the extreme.

 

Some examples:

https://www.inatural...ations/30222104

https://www.inatural...ations/19592542

https://www.inatural...ations/35006103


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#8 Offline Temperateants - Posted April 12 2020 - 10:02 AM

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Ants would feast on these guys.


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#9 Offline ponerinecat - Posted April 12 2020 - 10:03 AM

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Please don't feed these to your ants, they're good pets on their own. Very few people appreciate springtails for what they are. :*(


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#10 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted April 12 2020 - 11:08 AM

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I prefer isopods myself, but if springtails were a little bigger and easier to catch..........
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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

#11 Offline Solenoqueen - Posted May 6 2020 - 1:40 PM

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I prefer isopods myself, but if springtails were a little bigger and easier to catch..........

 Just use aspirator, lol.


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#12 Offline Temperateants - Posted May 6 2020 - 2:13 PM

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springrtails are the target practice of ant stingers.


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#13 Offline BugFinder - Posted May 6 2020 - 7:00 PM

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That is so cool!  Thanks for sharing that!


“If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.”  ― Matshona Dhliwayo

 

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Pogonomyrmex subdentatus

Camponotus Vicinus

Camponotus sansabeanus

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