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Carebara Diversa Journey

Started By Kennethlwr , Aug 9 2020 9:26 AM
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#61 Offline Kennethlwr - Posted September 25 2020 - 2:39 AM

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Many people post nice things about their ants, just wanna sure a part of the reality in ants life, which is their death, ants tends to carry the dead, piling them at a corner. Just nice a small major, probably injured during one of a fight with her food, who lost 2 of her legs, lingering around the graveyard, seemingly knowing that her time is almost up.


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#62 Offline ANTdrew - Posted September 25 2020 - 2:51 AM

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

#63 Offline Kennethlwr - Posted September 26 2020 - 7:21 AM

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Normally I buy a pack of mealworm as feeder insects for my CD, it last me a few months before I used all up. Naturally they evolved into pupae and adult beetle.

So I decided to breed them instead so maybe in future I don’t have to buy worms anymore!

I decided to try feeding them pupae and beetle as well, see if they will like it.. surprisingly.... they loved it! More than the mealworm

They mealworm was placed 4hrs ago before I put the beetle in, right after they bring the beetle back into the nest, I put a pupa in..





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#64 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted October 23 2020 - 5:26 AM

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He travels, he seeks the p a r m e s a n.

#65 Offline TechAnt - Posted October 23 2020 - 3:56 PM

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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

#66 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 23 2020 - 4:02 PM

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#67 Offline Spazmops - Posted October 23 2020 - 4:17 PM

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Update?  :lol:


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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

 

 

#68 Offline Kennethlwr - Posted October 24 2020 - 6:11 PM

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Sorry, no update for awhile for the past almost 1 month, they have been growing well and growing fast... but finally....

Hey produced their first alate!!! Yay!!! Look like a female? Can’t tell.. let me know!


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#69 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted October 24 2020 - 6:17 PM

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Wow! That's awesome!


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#70 Offline Kennethlwr - Posted October 24 2020 - 6:23 PM

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Just to share an update of their current colony size, I think it’s about 800-1000 considering there’s more in the outworld... taken with a micro lens, not sure if you can spot the alate here! And I have changed the feeder insect too!! Currently I am feeding them dubia roaches!




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#71 Offline Spazmops - Posted October 24 2020 - 7:33 PM

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This is a crazy species, I'm glad your colony is doing well!


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

 

 

#72 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted October 25 2020 - 5:59 AM

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It's incredible for them to get alates so early and so quickly.


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#73 Offline Kennethlwr - Posted October 25 2020 - 9:56 AM

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Yea! I was so surprised too.. I was thinking at least maybe 6 more months before they start producing alates! Well not complaining... haha!!
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#74 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted October 25 2020 - 12:27 PM

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You've done really well with a normally sensitive and difficult species so far. I'm impressed.


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#75 Offline Kennethlwr - Posted October 25 2020 - 4:21 PM

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Thanks! Probably lucky that I managed to get the humidity and temp right! Now I can’t wait for them to grow even bigger so I can make my own Super big Ytong formi, my idea is something like a 40inch TV size, wall mounted formi haha
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#76 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted October 25 2020 - 5:57 PM

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Thanks! Probably lucky that I managed to get the humidity and temp right! Now I can’t wait for them to grow even bigger so I can make my own Super big Ytong formi, my idea is something like a 40inch TV size, wall mounted formi haha


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#77 Offline Kennethlwr - Posted October 26 2020 - 6:23 AM

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Yea!!! But that would be probably at least 1 year from now!! Hopefully they continue to grow well!
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#78 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 26 2020 - 7:20 AM

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I love these ants so much and this seems to be the only journal let alone a journal that's updated on here, Big head for da win, how do those baby workers even carry those pupae anyway?!  :lol:


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#79 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted October 26 2020 - 7:53 AM

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I love these ants so much and this seems to be the only journal let alone a journal that's updated on here, Big head for da win, how do those baby workers even carry those pupae anyway?!  :lol:

Lots of teamwork...


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#80 Offline Kennethlwr - Posted October 31 2020 - 6:11 PM

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Let me show you how they carry those big head pupae! I recorded this when I was changing their formicarium from the side wall plaster to the current Ytong formi.


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