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Sexy time! (Lasius Niger)

Started By Jimmydave937911 , Jun 18 2020 9:20 AM

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#1 Offline Jimmydave937911 - Posted June 18 2020 - 9:20 AM

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These will be my first ever workers so I’m sure you can understand my excitement! How long do you reckon these little bad boys have got left?

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#2 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted June 18 2020 - 9:41 AM

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Maybe a couple weeks.
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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 Antkid12 - Posted June 18 2020 - 9:49 AM

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Congrats!  :)


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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!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

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

 

                    

                   

 

 

#4 Offline Jimmydave937911 - Posted June 18 2020 - 11:58 AM

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Quick question then. I think these pupae/cocoons turn slightly brown don’t they? Does the worker literally hatch from the cocoon?
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#5 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted June 18 2020 - 12:06 PM

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Quick question then. I think these pupae/cocoons turn slightly brown don’t they? Does the worker literally hatch from the cocoon?

Yes, and yes.
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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

#6 Offline ANTdrew - Posted June 19 2020 - 4:11 AM

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LOL. The content blocker on my work computer blocked this thread. Good luck with the cocoons.


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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#7 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted June 19 2020 - 5:35 AM

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And imo the newborn callows are so cute.

Edited by AntsDakota, June 19 2020 - 5:35 AM.

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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 OhNoNotAgain - Posted June 19 2020 - 9:54 AM

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Technically those would be "bad girls" (not "bad boys") unless your queen wasn't fertilized, but sheesh, that has whole other connotations in our messed-up society.

:facepalm: Anyway congrats! Nanitics can be a little disappointing because when they are young they tend to just stick near mama and apparently do almost nothing, but it's probably the most adorable phase of an ant colony. (Just wait til your colony is constantly staging massive escape attempts and looks like a solid black seething mass... less cute.)


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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.

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