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Specific Ant Species Housing Build

Started By Squidkid , May 27 2020 9:47 PM

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#41 Offline Antkid12 - Posted June 5 2020 - 10:15 AM

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Nice! (y)

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Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, ~~Brachymyrmex sp.~~ possibly infertile , Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: ~~Pheidole morrisii~~

#42 Offline Squidkid - Posted June 5 2020 - 11:03 AM

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Ok. Now that photos can be seen.
I want to share the locations of Where I have found these colonies
All the heart pins are locations where I have spotted Them.

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#43 Offline Manitobant - Posted June 5 2020 - 11:22 AM

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I captured the Male. He was present in the emigration trail. He was not from that Colony but a Foreign Male. He ended up Dying and I don't think They Mated. She never produced. I really think She was an unmated Daughter, and not The Queen.

maybe that queen didn't mate enough? Army ant queens often mate with many males before becoming fully fertile.

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/

#44 Offline Squidkid - Posted June 5 2020 - 12:23 PM

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Thank You Antkid12
Manitobant, Maybe... that goes with My theory that She was a yonger queen.

#45 Offline Squidkid - Posted June 10 2020 - 9:23 AM

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So currently I am tracking a colony of N. opacithorax. The N. nigrescens colony appears to have left the area and I cannot seem to locate them again. Hopefully an emigration will happen soon.