Does anyone have any Acromyrmex Versicolor Fungi?
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Does anyone have any Acromyrmex Versicolor Fungi?
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Posted February 11 2021 - 4:29 PM
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Posted February 11 2021 - 5:00 PM
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Does anyone have any Acromyrmex Versicolor Fungi?
Did you get Acromyrmex?
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none for now, planning on being more active this year
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Posted February 11 2021 - 5:27 PM
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I ordered a pheidole californica colony from cocdeshijie, and he was really nice so he sent me a free Acromyrmex Viscolor queen.
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Posted February 11 2021 - 5:57 PM
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I ordered a pheidole californica colony from cocdeshijie, and he was really nice so he sent me a free Acromyrmex Viscolor queen.
wait what!!!!!!!!!!!!!! really? that's awesome
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Posted February 11 2021 - 6:46 PM
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I know right? 
He said he caught a bunch of acromyrmex queens, but they did not have fungus, so he was just giving them away.
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Posted February 11 2021 - 8:48 PM
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yeah , I was with cocdeshijie when we caught ....
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Posted February 12 2021 - 10:01 AM
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yeah , I was with cocdeshijie when we caught ....
oh that's cool
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Posted February 12 2021 - 5:27 PM
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omg I got two queens and I literally had just found the extra test tube!
That was very kind!
I have no clue how to care for leafcutters but I will do my best, I gave them little dirt areas to dig in, and I think they need some fresh small leaves now? They tuck the fungus in somewhere when they fly ...
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Posted February 12 2021 - 5:46 PM
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I also got two queens from him. Unfortunately one of them killed the other. Also, he was giving them away because they were not making any fungus, which is why I am asking people for some. The setup I am going to use at first would probably be a petri dish nest.
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Posted February 16 2021 - 10:56 PM
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did you find fangus ? my Acromyrmex Versicolor fungus dead also ....
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Posted February 16 2021 - 11:41 PM
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The queens that were collected are probably not going to take care of the fungus and are not going to lay any eggs that will start a colony. They were most likely just queens turned into workers since they did not fly last year due to there not being any rain. I got 5 queens from cocdeshijie and they destroyed the fungus I gave them from my colony immediately, like they did for many other people who got them. Cocdeshijie did not advertise these queens as being fertile, so there is no fault to him on this.
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Posted February 17 2021 - 2:49 AM
I see dealates foraging with workers all the time, sometimes even large numbers of them. Most likely that is what these were. There is no way Acromyrmex versicolor had a mating flight in January.
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Posted February 17 2021 - 8:54 AM
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The queens that were collected are probably not going to take care of the fungus and are not going to lay any eggs that will start a colony. They were most likely just queens turned into workers since they did not fly last year due to there not being any rain. I got 5 queens from cocdeshijie and they destroyed the fungus I gave them from my colony immediately, like they did for many other people who got them. Cocdeshijie did not advertise these queens as being fertile, so there is no fault to him on this.
I know there is no fault for him on this. I am grateful that he gave them away. But now that have I leafcutter ant queen I just want to take care of and her possible future colony to the best of my ability.
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Posted February 17 2021 - 12:10 PM
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thank you for the information on this 
I wasn't sure what to do with them.
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