Genus: Crematgaster
Species: pinicola or laeviuscula ?
Common Name: Acrobat Ants, Saint Valentine Ants
Colony Stage: Fresh Queen
Caught Date: 05-27-2020 and 05-28-2020
Eggs: 06-03-2020
Larva: 06-28-2020
Pupa: 07-12-2020
Nanitics: 07-23-2020
Diet:
Special Needs:
Do they Sting or bite?:
Escape Artists?: "Heck yes!" - ANTdrew
Queen or colony count: 3 queens
Red Tube (1): First sign of eggs 06-03-2020, Larva 06-28-2020, Pupa 07-12-2020, Nanitics 07-23-2020
Orange Tube (2): First sign of eggs 06-08-2020, Larva 06-28-2020, Nanitics 07-23-2020
Green Tube (3): First sign of eggs 06-08-2020, Larva 06-28-2020, Nanitics 07-23-2020
07-19-2020:
Red has pretty dark pupa and I'm waiting for the first worker any day now.
Green loves to hang her brood upside down just sticking piled on the roof.
07-23-2020:
We have workers! Took them long enough! Aside from my impressa these girls seemed to take the longest. All 3 colonies seem to currently have two workers each and seem healthy.
Green Tube's workers just hang upside down like their queen and her brood so I'm kinda getting attached to them for this quirkiness.
Orange Tube's queen still has her wings and they're tangled with cotton. I had to untangle her a while back when she got her wings so tangled in cotton she was stuck to the water side and could hardly move and wouldn't have been able to feed or clean her brood. So I got out the tiny scissors I use to trim my dog's feet and my ant tweezers and carefully freed her. I tried to get as much as I could off without hurting her but as you can see in the video it's not all off. I hope she drops her wings sooner than later for her own safety.
I know the clownish music is kinda silly but figured since one queen tripped over her pupa and the other likes to hang her brood upside down and the fact they are "acrobat ants" that it kinda fit? IDK
08-01-2020:
Orange still hasn't dropped her wings and they tend to get cotton tangled in them. I think the workers are trying to clean them up for her. It's kind of funny though watching them as they crawl all over her.
Red decided to move house. I thought they escaped and it gave me a scare. lol
Edited by BitT, August 1 2020 - 12:33 PM.