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Dspdrew's Liometopum occidentale Journal [38] (Discontinued)
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dspdrew
, Sep 17 2013 12:25 AM
Liometopum occidentale Dspdrew journal
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#21 Offline - Posted June 2 2014 - 6:04 AM
Update 6-2-2014
Yesterday the first worker eclosed, and as of this morning there are already about 15 or so.
Yesterday the first worker eclosed, and as of this morning there are already about 15 or so.
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#22 Offline - Posted June 2 2014 - 11:11 AM
#23 Offline - Posted July 3 2014 - 12:47 PM
How's this queen doing?
#24 Offline - Posted July 3 2014 - 1:44 PM
How's this queen doing?
I knew there was a journal I forgot to update haha.
#25 Offline - Posted July 3 2014 - 1:46 PM
Update 7-3-2014
Two weeks ago almost all of the workers in this colony suddenly died off for no apparent reason. Now there are only three workers left. The queen has recently laid a few more eggs though.
#26 Offline - Posted July 3 2014 - 6:31 PM
This species seems to be quite fond of just up and dying. Maybe liometopum deathcultis would be a good name for them? ;-)
#27 Offline - Posted July 3 2014 - 9:49 PM
I had an L. occidentale colony last year with about 50 workers, and one day they just decided to die.
#28 Offline - Posted July 4 2014 - 9:36 AM
You'd think (with a first brood that big) that this species would be incredibly hardy and prolific.
#29 Offline - Posted July 4 2014 - 9:43 AM
That must have sucked to have a good colony starting to grow and then wake up one day to find them dead for no reason .
#30 Offline - Posted July 4 2014 - 10:11 AM
Yeah, it's strange. They have a nice pile of eggs again now, so they should have more workers again soon.
#31 Offline - Posted July 8 2014 - 10:46 PM
That's what happened to mine we caught. They were fine for two weeks, then out of nowhere croaked at the same time except for 4. I still have those 4 along with a bunch of new ones eclosing daily now
#32 Offline - Posted July 8 2014 - 11:55 PM
How large is the queen?
#33 Offline - Posted July 9 2014 - 12:02 AM
10mm or so.
#34 Offline - Posted July 22 2014 - 11:16 PM
Update 7-23-2014
Well I'm pretty excited. I realized that these are definitely L. occidentale and not L. luctuosum, so I have merged this journal with my original L. occidentale journal that was discontinued after the entire colony died last year for no apparent reason.
Here's the only clear picture I got of one of the remaining three workers of this new colony, and you can clearly see how red the thorax is, so this is obviously L. occidentale. You can also see the new brood developing; not as many as the first batch, but a decent amount.
#35 Offline - Posted August 14 2014 - 12:18 PM
Update 8-14-2014
Just like the original queen, this one has now died too.
#36 Offline - Posted March 27 2015 - 6:24 AM
Update 3-27-2015
I found another one of these queens last night on my black light while out in Trabuco Canyon, CA. When I checked her this morning, she no longer had her wings, so it's looking good. I seem to get one try with these each year. Hopefully this one will work out better than the previous two.
#37 Offline - Posted March 28 2015 - 10:54 AM
Jealous...
#38 Offline - Posted March 28 2015 - 7:13 PM
Good luck with this one.
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#39 Offline - Posted April 5 2015 - 8:00 PM
Update 4-5-2015
So far so good. The new queen has a pretty big pile of eggs now.
So far so good. The new queen has a pretty big pile of eggs now.
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#40 Offline - Posted April 22 2015 - 2:15 PM
How is the queen?
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