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Dspdrew's Liometopum occidentale Journal [38] (Discontinued)

Liometopum occidentale Dspdrew journal

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#41 Offline dspdrew - Posted April 22 2015 - 3:50 PM

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Shes doing well so far. All the eggs are now pupae.



#42 Offline dspdrew - Posted April 30 2015 - 7:09 AM

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Update 4-30-2015
 
I just found nine more of these queens in the last two days. It looks like I am going to have a much better chance of a successful colony after all.



#43 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 2 2015 - 12:29 PM

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Update 5-2-2015
 
The first queen I found this season just got her first workers.
 
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#44 Offline Ants4fun - Posted May 2 2015 - 1:16 PM

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Wow, that's a lot nanitics!



#45 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted May 2 2015 - 11:46 PM

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Wow, that's a lot nanitics!

This genus is highly prolific, makes insanely huge colonies and with strictly only one queen.



#46 Offline Trailandstreet - Posted May 3 2015 - 11:51 AM

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Do the workers stay in this colour or will they darken later?


:hi: Franz

if you find any mistakes, it's my autocorrection. it doesn't speak english.


#47 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 3 2015 - 12:12 PM

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They will darken.



#48 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted May 3 2015 - 12:26 PM

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Do the workers stay in this colour or will they darken later?

That would look awesome, but no. They darken.



#49 Offline dermy - Posted May 3 2015 - 12:27 PM

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Do you know anyone who has ever gotten a huge massive colony of these?

 

 

Good luck with these these Drew!



#50 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 3 2015 - 12:37 PM

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I know someone who has a large enough colony to have full-sized workers.


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#51 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted May 3 2015 - 12:37 PM

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Do you know anyone who has ever gotten a huge massive colony of these?

 

 

Good luck with these these Drew!

Dermy I do not know about and massive captive colonies but look at this wild colony. Keep in mine this is one foraging trail!

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#52 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted May 3 2015 - 12:39 PM

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I know someone who has a large enough colony to have full-sized workers.

Would that be jeffpbalderston's colony?



#53 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 3 2015 - 12:58 PM

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Yes.



#54 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 26 2015 - 9:10 PM

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Update 5-26-2015
 
The new colony is still doing well and producing brood. Lately they've been drinking a lot of humming bird nectar.
 
The latest bunch of queens I found all have huge piles of brood. It's weird seeing so many queens at once with brood piles this large. Each one has well over 50 pupae right now.
 
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Today I found one queen dead, and after inspecting it, I gave all of her brood to my oldest colony.
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#55 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 31 2015 - 11:37 PM

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Update 6-1-2015
 
All the newest colonies have workers now.



#56 Offline dspdrew - Posted June 17 2015 - 11:14 AM

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Update 6-17-2015
 
One of the new queens' gasters burst open and phorid fly maggots came out. It was really disgusting.
 
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#57 Offline Nexus - Posted June 17 2015 - 12:13 PM

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Nice ones.

Just wondered dspdrew, what do you do with all those ants ? 'Cause you have like 10 colonies of the same species, you ain't gonna keep them all, are you ? Or do you sell some ?


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#58 Offline dspdrew - Posted June 17 2015 - 12:56 PM

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Sell some, give some away, and many end up dying.



#59 Offline Tpro4 - Posted June 17 2015 - 11:12 PM

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are you gonna feed the maggots to the other colonies for revenge or are you just gonna stand there and watch them burn in your furnance?
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#60 Offline Alza - Posted June 18 2015 - 12:34 AM

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what's wrong with keeping 10 colonies of the same species ?







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