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Greetings from Tennessee!

Started By ButcherBird , Jun 26 2020 4:51 AM

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#1 Offline ButcherBird - Posted June 26 2020 - 4:51 AM

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Hi all, fellow invert keeper here from middle TN. If you're on Arachnoboards.com you may know me as GemTheBirder. I keep a few different things, isopods, millipedes, scorpions, beetles etc.. Currently, my only ants are a Camponotus queen and a hand full of workers and brood which I recently collected while moving a pile of wood. Thanks for accepting my request to join and I'm looking forward to learning a thing or two about ants.
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#2 Offline Antkid12 - Posted June 26 2020 - 5:16 AM

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Hello, and welcome to the forum!


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

 

                    

                   

 

 

#3 Offline Temperateants - Posted June 26 2020 - 5:22 AM

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Welcome!


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#4 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted June 26 2020 - 6:11 AM

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Welcome! I’m sure you’ll learn a lot here.

"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

#5 Online ANTdrew - Posted June 26 2020 - 6:12 AM

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Welcome! You’re in a very ant-diverse state with some great ant-keepers like Ant_Dude2908.
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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.

#6 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted June 26 2020 - 6:14 AM

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Welcome! You’re in a very ant-diverse state with some great ant-keepers like Ant_Dude2908.

I don’t recall there being any other prominent members in Tennessee other than Ant_Dude.
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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

#7 Offline FeedTheAnts - Posted June 26 2020 - 6:55 AM

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Welcome to FC. A former Tennessean here! I feel like TN doesn't get the recognition it deserves for it's insect diversity. Among some of the coolest and abundant ants are Crematogaster minitussima, Trachymyrmex, Pheidole, Aphaenogaster tennessenisis, Neivamyrmex... the list goes on and on. Check out the journals of Ant_Dude2908 and PurdueEntomology, they are both in your State.


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I accidentally froze all my ants 

#8 Online ANTdrew - Posted June 26 2020 - 7:02 AM

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TN and the bordering areas of VA have the highest salamander diversity in the WORLD, just sayin’.
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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.

#9 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted June 26 2020 - 7:52 AM

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Welcome! Great to see a fellow Middle Tennessean on here!
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#10 Offline ButcherBird - Posted June 26 2020 - 1:08 PM

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Thanks for the warm welcome everyone.

@Ant_Dude2908 I'm glad to see a fellow Tennessean on the forums, especially one who sells test tube colonies, as my searches around the yard have been unsuccessful.

@ANTdrew TN is a fantastic state for biodiversity, for sure. Here in the cedar glades of the Central Basin, where I call home, we have some of the most diverse, unique flora on the planet.

Thanks again everyone. I'm so excited to become an ant keeper!
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#11 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted June 29 2020 - 12:19 PM

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Thanks for the warm welcome everyone.

@Ant_Dude2908 I'm glad to see a fellow Tennessean on the forums, especially one who sells test tube colonies, as my searches around the yard have been unsuccessful.

@ANTdrew TN is a fantastic state for biodiversity, for sure. Here in the cedar glades of the Central Basin, where I call home, we have some of the most diverse, unique flora on the planet.

Thanks again everyone. I'm so excited to become an ant keeper!

Just let me know if you have any questions!


My Main Journal | My Neivamyrmex Journal | My Ant Adoption | My YouTube

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