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Favorite Ant Species

Started By Devi , Aug 23 2020 7:29 AM

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#21 Offline CheetoLord02 - Posted August 24 2020 - 8:51 PM

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Polyrhachis ypsilon or Pheidole rhea

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I like leafcutter ants. Watch The Ultimate Guide to Fungus Growing Ants:

https://youtu.be/VBH...4GkxujxMETFPt8U

This video took like over 100 hours of work, you should for sure watch it.

#22 Offline Mdrogun - Posted August 24 2020 - 11:18 PM

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Pheidole rhea

I second this. One of the ants at the top of my bucket list, I'll be quite sad if I don't get to keep them before I die.

My second favorite is probably something along the lines of Atta cepahlotes, but I'm not sure.

Currently Keeping:
Trachymyrmex septentrionalis

Pheidole pilifera

Forelius sp. (Monogynous, bicolored) "Midwestern Forelius"
Crematogaster cerasi

Pheidole bicarinata

Aphaenogaster rudis

Camponotus chromaiodes

Formica sp. (microgena species)

Nylanderia cf. arenivega

#23 Offline Antkid12 - Posted August 25 2020 - 8:31 AM

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My favorites that I have right now are my 2 Pheidole colonies! I would like to keep Azteca, Pheidole antipodum, and Orectognathus versicolor(I said this one 3 times already).

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!