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Posted July 8 2020 - 8:32 AM
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Soooo...I decided to get to the pool early this morning to see what was there. Last night must have been a highly ant-ticipated event given the number of queens I picked up. The jars with cotton on the top have 2 Pheidoles (I think) each bc I ran out of test tubes, vials, or any other small containers. Most of the white lids have what I think are Brachyrmex (so only 1 queen per vial bc they don’t get along so well, or so I have read). The Petri dishes contain the ICU ants that may already be dead (but ants from the pool have surprised me before). All in all, it looks like 38 large Pheidole, 18 Brachymyrmex patagonicus (?), 17 of lord knows what genus, and 1 camponotus (in ICU).
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Posted July 8 2020 - 8:36 AM
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Wow. Nice haul 
I actually have two Formica queens that I saved from the pool. They were still very much alive when I caught them, however.
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Posted July 8 2020 - 9:20 AM
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Brachymyrmex are highly polygonous.
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Posted July 8 2020 - 9:27 AM
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Brachymyrmex are highly polygonous.
Yes, they are. Were you (ReliantUKDr) thinking of another genus?
"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
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Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea
Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra
Myrmica sp.
Lasius neoniger, brevicornis
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Posted July 8 2020 - 9:49 AM
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Posted July 8 2020 - 10:11 AM
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Yes, they are. Were you (ReliantUKDr) thinking of another genus?Brachymyrmex are highly polygonous.
Interesting...I was reading about B. patagonicus on the UF entomology site and they state polygyny hasn’t been observed in the wild and high levels of inter colony aggression. Do you think it would be ok to combine a few?
http://entnemdept.uf...k_rover_ant.htm
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Posted July 8 2020 - 12:48 PM
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Yes, they are. Were you (ReliantUKDr) thinking of another genus?Brachymyrmex are highly polygonous.
Interesting...I was reading about B. patagonicus on the UF entomology site and they state polygyny hasn’t been observed in the wild and high levels of inter colony aggression. Do you think it would be ok to combine a few?
http://entnemdept.uf...k_rover_ant.htm
A member by the name of Ender Ants has groups of up to 19 queens. Based on his journals they seem to progress faster in smaller groups like groups of 3. Some of the small groups had workers or pupae while the group of 19 had eggs and larvae. I suggest combining a few. Also, that website does state that in laboratory conditions they will form polygonous colonies. And as I stated, it does work in normal captive environments as well.
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