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Sleepy's Novomessor Cockerelli Journal

Started By SleepyAsianAnter , Aug 23 2020 3:52 PM

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#1 Offline SleepyAsianAnter - Posted August 23 2020 - 3:52 PM

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Bought a colony off nurbs, loving these so far. Their large size and interesting habits are pretty cool. This is definitely one of my favorite species. A week or so after I bought the colony, I bought a couple more founding queens. I'm hoping to get some polygenous colonies founded, as there are examples of them being polygenous before. I have 1 colony from last season in a mini-hearth, 4 tubes of single queens (one with wings), and 3 tubes of (hopefully) polygenous double queens. The poly ones have been friendly so far. 

 

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#2 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted August 23 2020 - 3:55 PM

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Okay Sleepy you need to define "interesting habits"!

And if you see them sneaking out of their formicaria to plug up Pogonomyrmex formicaria with sand, take video.


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Formiculture Journals::

Veromessor pergandei, andrei; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis; also separate journal: Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola

Liometopum occidentale;  Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive)

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus and californicus (inactive)

Tetramorium sp.

Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis

 

Isopods: A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus

Spoods: Phidippus sp.

#3 Offline Fatatoille - Posted August 24 2020 - 12:03 PM

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Love this species, if I could keep any of north American species, it would be these girls.


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Prawn and Mayo sandwiches taste nice.

#4 Offline SleepyAsianAnter - Posted April 13 2021 - 8:45 AM

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I'm down to 2 colonies, 1 30 worker and 1 100 worker. I will be acquiring a 500 worker soon. 

 

I hand-built a nest for my 100 worker colony, they moved in overnight and took 5 crickets immediately.

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My 30 worker colony is being kept in the nest I got them in, they have a pile of brood but I plan to boost them with pupae from the aforementioned 500 worker colony

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