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Hi, just got my first colony

Started By Spazmops , Jul 25 2020 12:16 PM

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#1 Offline Spazmops - Posted July 25 2020 - 12:16 PM

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Hello ant keepers, I’m Spazmops (long story), and I now have an ant colony. I was waiting until I actually had ants before I introduced myself, but you’ve probably seen me misID some queens and generally make a fool of myself. I apologize, I’m still very new at this. I live in Colorado, which luckily has my dream species, Myrmecocystus Mexicanus, which I’m more than willing to buy/trade for. That’s about all I have to say, other than I’m looking forward to growing big colonies and catching more queens in the future!

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Ants I have:

1 Formica fusca group- 0 workers

1 Tetramorium immigrans colony-20 workers

1 Dorymyrmex insanus- 1 queen, used to have workers

1 large P. occidentalis colony- around 50 workers, plenty of brood

#2 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 25 2020 - 12:55 PM

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Welcome! You’ll learn a lot on here.

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

#3 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 25 2020 - 1:44 PM

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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!