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An ant keepers ultimate torture (a blog by antboi3030)

Started By AntBoi3030 , Jun 19 2021 5:43 AM

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#1 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted June 19 2021 - 5:43 AM

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Last night I arrived in Florida to visit family.when I arrived there porch light was on and a TON of pheidole queens and males were there and a bunch were wingless. I caught two to take some photos. Now I do follow the USDA’s laws and I resolved to let green go but. releasing them that night would mean getting a lot of bugs all over the house. The next day I went to release them and they booth had broke of their wings. This made it really really hard to release them because pheidole are really cool and my favorite species. But when I was outside and releasing them I saw a trachymermex queen or a fungus growing queen D: and It couldn’t be atta because she was too small. I will be updating everything I find so enjoy watching me struggle with ants.

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#2 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted June 19 2021 - 6:39 AM

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1X Pogonomyrmex occidentalis 40-50 Workers

1X Solenopsis molesta 10 Workers (mono)

Ants I Want: Crematogaster sp, Camponotus Sp., Ponera Pennsylvanica, Mymercocystus sp.

 

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#3 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted June 19 2021 - 12:44 PM

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I found a Pseudomyrmex gracilis queen AHHH. I also found a brachymermx patigoncus queen but I don’t really care about her.

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#4 Online ANTdrew - Posted June 19 2021 - 1:14 PM

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Florida: the perfect place for queens and Florida Man memes.
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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.

#5 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted June 19 2021 - 4:44 PM

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Yeah I really wish I got a permit because the only pheidole species in Maryland is tysoni and they fly in a month.
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#6 Offline Manitobant - Posted June 19 2021 - 4:50 PM

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The pseudomyrmex is a worker, not a queen. Pseudomyrmex stopped flying a while ago i think
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Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#7 Offline CheetoLord02 - Posted June 19 2021 - 10:45 PM

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The pseudomyrmex is a worker, not a queen. Pseudomyrmex stopped flying a while ago i think

Pretty sure I see wing scars. And they're definitely not done flying.


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

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#8 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted June 20 2021 - 5:34 AM

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Yea and I’ve seen drones around too defiantly not hard to miss lol.

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#9 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted June 20 2021 - 8:09 AM

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The pseudomyrmex is a worker, not a queen. Pseudomyrmex stopped flying a while ago i think

Pretty sure I see wing scars. And they're definitely not done flying.

 

I also see wing scars.


#10 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted June 20 2021 - 4:36 PM

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So many ghost ants lol. I found a bunch of brachymermx queens which is cool
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#11 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted June 20 2021 - 10:14 PM

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Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

YouTube: https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)

Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), ★ Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#12 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted June 21 2021 - 3:41 PM

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I was taken pity on today I was at Disney world and nothing was alive there lol.

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#13 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted June 23 2021 - 1:01 PM

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Well it rained yesterday. I saw a the queens from the windows probably saw 100+ brachymermx queens while I was outside. Now I can only think about a huge super colony haha. I saw some surprisingly beautiful fire ant queens.

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