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Myrmecocystus Management

Started By TechAnt , Jul 22 2020 9:04 AM

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#1 Offline TechAnt - Posted July 22 2020 - 9:04 AM

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Discussion for our favorite hardest-to-keep-alive queens with the mind blowing repletes that are really, really, really hard to obtain...


Edited by TechAnt, August 27 2020 - 8:40 AM.

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My Ants:
(x1) Campontous semitstaceus ~20 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Camponotus vicinus ~10 workers, 1 Queen (all black variety)
(x1) Tetramorium immigrans ~100 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Myrmercocystus mexicanus -1 Queen
(x2) Mymercocystus mimcus -1 Queen
(x1) Mymercocystus testaceus ~45 workers, 1 Queen

#2 Offline M_Ants - Posted July 22 2020 - 9:11 AM

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Veromessor pergandei

Veromessor andrei

Crematogaster sp. 

Pogonomyrmex cf cali and rugosus

Various Pheidole

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#3 Offline M_Ants - Posted July 22 2020 - 9:18 AM

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Miraculous Myrmecocystus or Managing Myrmecocystus 


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Crematogaster sp. 

Pogonomyrmex cf cali and rugosus

Various Pheidole

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#4 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted July 22 2020 - 9:18 AM

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#5 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 22 2020 - 9:27 AM

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Myrmecocystus monitors?


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

 

                    

                   

 

 

#6 Offline M_Ants - Posted July 22 2020 - 9:30 AM

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I was hoping to find these this year but the monsoons are failing me.


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Crematogaster sp. 

Pogonomyrmex cf cali and rugosus

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#7 Offline TechAnt - Posted July 22 2020 - 9:34 AM

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I was hoping to find these this year but the monsoons are failing me.


Yeah..went anting near San Diego and came empty handed.
My Ants:
(x1) Campontous semitstaceus ~20 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Camponotus vicinus ~10 workers, 1 Queen (all black variety)
(x1) Tetramorium immigrans ~100 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Myrmercocystus mexicanus -1 Queen
(x2) Mymercocystus mimcus -1 Queen
(x1) Mymercocystus testaceus ~45 workers, 1 Queen

#8 Offline ponerinecat - Posted July 22 2020 - 9:48 AM

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Myrmecocystus are supposedly really easy to keep, and the repletes are pretty easy to make as well. Hard part seems to be founding.


#9 Offline FSTP - Posted July 22 2020 - 9:58 AM

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I recently started feeding my M. mexicanus Pogonomyrmex workers and they really love them probably more t hen any other food I feed. With most foods they typically mill around it for awhile then they they will think about maybe eating it and then finally drag it to the nest. With the Pogonomyrmex workers they instantly drag it into the nest and put it on the larvae pile.


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#10 Offline M_Ants - Posted July 22 2020 - 9:59 AM

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I recently started feeding my M. mexicanus Pogonomyrmex workers and they really love them probably more t hen any other food I feed.

Where did you get yours from?


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#11 Offline NickAnter - Posted July 22 2020 - 10:00 AM

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Has anyone ever kept hibernating Myrmecocystus?? There is a chance of me getting some of those when I go to the Eastern Sierras fairly soon.


Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#12 Offline M_Ants - Posted July 22 2020 - 5:06 PM

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Does anyone in SoCal know anything about flights this year? Would they just not fly since there isn't no rain?


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Pogonomyrmex cf cali and rugosus

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#13 Offline TechAnt - Posted July 22 2020 - 5:11 PM

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Does anyone in SoCal know anything about flights this year? Would they just not fly since there isn't no rain?


From what dspdrew and and others have said, yeah, no flights without rain.
My Ants:
(x1) Campontous semitstaceus ~20 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Camponotus vicinus ~10 workers, 1 Queen (all black variety)
(x1) Tetramorium immigrans ~100 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Myrmercocystus mexicanus -1 Queen
(x2) Mymercocystus mimcus -1 Queen
(x1) Mymercocystus testaceus ~45 workers, 1 Queen

#14 Offline M_Ants - Posted July 22 2020 - 5:12 PM

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But will they just wait? If it rains at the end of August will they fly then?


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#15 Offline NickAnter - Posted July 22 2020 - 5:15 PM

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They will fly when it rains, even if its in september.


Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#16 Offline M_Ants - Posted July 22 2020 - 5:16 PM

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Awesome. I don't mind waiting as long as at some point I'll get a chance.


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#17 Offline NickAnter - Posted July 22 2020 - 5:16 PM

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If its in september, I have no chance of getting them..


Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#18 Offline M_Ants - Posted July 22 2020 - 5:17 PM

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I was starting to think I'd have to wait till next year...Will C. fragilis wait as well?


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#19 Offline Superant33 - Posted July 23 2020 - 8:03 AM

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There is large variance between the species. M. mimicus is fairly easy in the founding stage. They are super easy once the colony reaches 10-15 workers. M. mexicanus is much more troublesome in the founding stage. I only caught one queen. She didn’t make it.

#20 Offline FSTP - Posted July 23 2020 - 9:50 AM

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I recently started feeding my M. mexicanus Pogonomyrmex workers and they really love them probably more t hen any other food I feed.

Where did you get yours from?

 

 

The Rimrock area.
 


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