Had these for a while but decided to make a journal on them since I don't see any others. I caught 2 of these on my blacklight. I know one was on 7/30/2020. Both had wings. I had to go on vacation the next day so I put them in test tubes and hoped for the best. When I got back both had eggs. One was really productive and the other was a dud. I sold the better of the 2 recently once it got workers. I have the other queen still. It only got one nanitic which died. I may not have fed it fast enough so I donated a larvae. Now it has a worker and eggs which aren't developing. Not sure if anything will ever happen to it. Anyways, after I got back caught a dealate at a local trail. It is the queen/colony this journal will follow. Her gaster swelled so big and she was/is super productive. I kept them in a test tube as long as I could then moved them into a nurb's pencil case setup. Then they moved into an Aus Ants ytong nest. That is currently where they live. I believe they have like 15 workers right now. Some look almost like medians but not really. The person who bought the other colony said they were bigger than the fraggles they had before. If you made it this far congrats! Now I'll talk about them being absquatulator. I sent some pics to AnthonyP163 who said he was 90% sure they were absquatulator. I have no expertise on the matter although I did read through this. http://file:///media...elling_2006.pdf Let me know if the link works. Essentially, and I'm quoting AnthonyP163 "The C. fragilis antwiki says that fragilis is discerned from absquatulator by: "...erect setae present along entire head margin; minor workers with at least a few setae along head margins". This is what I have used to identify specimens of fragilis from absquatulator, and from what I've seen it's the only viable way to do so. C. absquatulator also tends to have longer hair on its face from profile view (which matches with this specimen)." Here are some pics he sent me that show the difference. 
That was a fraggle. Here's a baldy down below. (I calm them bald fraggles or baldies)
Now here's some pics of my workers.
Edited by M_Ants, August 14 2024 - 11:47 AM.
