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Kits crematogaster~The Spades.

Started By KitsAntVa , Oct 25 2020 12:57 PM

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#1 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 25 2020 - 12:57 PM

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I am going to start this journal and stick to it! I plan on following in feedtheants footsteps with these. They are a crematogaster Cersei or lineolata and I plan on them being Cersei so I can get them in 2 hybrid nests and produce alates. They are in a test tube set up right now with a outworld, I swear if I remember this time I’ll get pictures for these and my bearded bois. I ordered a big order of THA stuff about a month back and I got a custom made mini hearth that I had to email Mack for just for these it’s a surprise so you will see once I move them in.


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#2 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 25 2020 - 1:06 PM

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Pics from around a week back. DB6551F4-64D6-40D0-B31E-46D967CFCAE7.jpeg 7B73D90F-4CDA-4E22-8FD9-8AFBB6086BFA.jpeg
Unrelated but I still wanted to add them. 106A9ADA-E8B1-4649-A2EA-1014D0FA56ED.jpeg
My pet tarantula girl. E5E6AC8A-5DEC-449F-9BC1-0D60B1CDD0FF.jpeg
Look at them upside down.

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#3 Offline ANTdrew - Posted October 25 2020 - 1:07 PM

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FeedTheAnts is the OG CrematoMaster. If you follow his footsteps, you’ll do well.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#4 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 25 2020 - 1:08 PM

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Do you think that 2 possibly even 3 hybrid nest. (Formica) would hold a max colony of these?

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#5 Offline ANTdrew - Posted October 25 2020 - 1:20 PM

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Nest size is not the issue; it is outworld size. They need a lot of room to roam.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#6 Offline Spazmops - Posted October 25 2020 - 1:47 PM

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10/10 on the journal name. Is it just me or has everyone been getting Pogonomyrmex and Crematogaster lately?


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Co-owner and founder of Mountain Myrmeculture and The Menagerie Discord Server. 

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

 

 

#7 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 25 2020 - 3:36 PM

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10/10 on the journal name. Is it just me or has everyone been getting Pogonomyrmex and Crematogaster lately?


Thank you and I already had those two before everyone else started getting them :)
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#8 Offline Spazmops - Posted October 25 2020 - 5:15 PM

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10/10 on the journal name. Is it just me or has everyone been getting Pogonomyrmex and Crematogaster lately?


Thank you and I already had those two before everyone else started getting them :)

 

I guess I'm just seeing more journals about them then. Although in my opinion you can never have too many journals, so I'm excited to follow this one.


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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

 

 

#9 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 25 2020 - 6:34 PM

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I think I may name this queen spade or queen pala. Because she reminds me of a playing card.
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#10 Offline ANTdrew - Posted October 26 2020 - 2:22 AM

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

#11 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 26 2020 - 4:21 AM

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I renamed it to The spades because I like it.


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#12 Offline ANTdrew - Posted October 26 2020 - 5:05 AM

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Very cool! Hopefully they’ll be the next Valentines or Divas.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#13 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 26 2020 - 5:10 AM

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Hopefully! I plan on only keeping these and a couple other species, including either pheidole tysoni or bicanarata I already have all my other ones :D


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