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Lasius Americanus Macrogyne

Started By hakala847 , Oct 11 2020 7:55 PM

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#1 Offline hakala847 - Posted October 11 2020 - 7:55 PM

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I'm looking for a Lasius Americanus Macrogyne queen, does anyone have some for sale? I'm in California.

#2 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted October 12 2020 - 5:43 AM

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I’m on mobile so I can’t see anyway, but if you don’t already have it put your location in your profile and this thread should be in the General Market Place.

#3 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 12 2020 - 6:33 AM

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They have their location on there.

 

I'm looking for a Lasius Americanus Macrogyne queen, does anyone have some for sale? I'm in California.

There are tons of people selling in california because it's gotta be one of the number one places in the world for ants, just go to the topic general market place and search california and there will be tons of shops.


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#4 Offline NickAnter - Posted October 12 2020 - 6:46 AM

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No one sells Lasius on the West Coast anymore it seems.


Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#5 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 12 2020 - 6:57 AM

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yea i was looking to see if i could help no one even had neoniger except one person and that was just listed on their shop and not in stock.


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#6 Offline TechAnt - Posted October 12 2020 - 8:07 AM

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Lasius are hard to find if they are not parasites in my opinion (for CA), they seem to only be found up north and in more high elevation areas. But I do not have any expertise in trying to find Lasius, so don't take my word for it. Anyways, there should be a seperate thread for this, lets not hijack this thread.


Edited by TechAnt, October 12 2020 - 8:08 AM.

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

#7 Offline ANTdrew - Posted October 12 2020 - 9:45 AM

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Plenty of other CA species are probably way more interesting, to be honest.
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#8 Offline TechAnt - Posted October 12 2020 - 9:50 AM

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Plenty of other CA species are probably way more interesting, to be honest.

Yeah.


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

#9 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 12 2020 - 10:13 AM

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Plenty of other CA species are probably way more interesting, to be honest.

Yeah.

 

The fact is that some people like lasius just because they do, i like lasius despite them being common and they are one of my favorite species just because i watched ant channels getting into the hobby like novo ants or others in europe. basically what i'm saying is lasius is one reason I'm in this hobby, and that's why i just traded a kinda rare queen for 2 of them.


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#10 Offline hakala847 - Posted October 12 2020 - 3:47 PM

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Thanks for the info everybody, I saw one of those lasius Brevicornis queens and just thought the were a pretty cool species

#11 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted October 13 2020 - 7:17 AM

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Thanks for the info everybody, I saw one of those lasius Brevicornis queens and just thought the were a pretty cool species

Lasius brevicornis are preferable to Lasius americanus any day, in my opinion.


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Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#12 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 13 2020 - 8:03 AM

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Lasius brevicorne or nearcticus are probably the most independent species of ant ever because of their quality’s but they are basically one of the most boring species ever because they stay underground all the time.
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