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[Antkeeper01]

so yesterday i was flipping rocks and found a formica founding queen i was so excited because formica arent the most common ants where i live she had brood i aspirated her but it was worth the pain i had her and her brood, today i moved her into a testube setup so cross your fingers that thing queen gets workers!

Edited by Antkeeper01, September 2 2021 - 12:43 PM.

[azzaaazzzz00]

Good luck with her!

[Antkeeper01]

sadly this queen died and was infertile but i have a small 3 queen colony from breckenridge with 2 workers

[Antkeeper01]

sadly that colony died to but I have a one queen colony of Formica cf neogates it had a lot of queens so I took a single queen about 20 workers and some brood, I also have a bunch of fusca group Formica queens from Buena vista none have have eggs so far but maybe! Oh and another small 20 worker colony of fusca group Formica from Breckenridge.

[Antkeeper01]

I currently have a 10 worker colony of a unidentified formica sp, several queens without brood, a 1 queen 1 worker colony, and that's about it

[Antkeeper01]

Formica sp in their natural formisquarium

[Antkeeper01]

Well I had to move the colony out of the formiscqarium because they wouldn't to in the outworld so I moved them into a mini-hearth they stayed there for a while but then they started slowly dieing so I moved them into a texture in hopes the queen would start laying eggs but it was a mistake and the queen died







Meanwhile one of my queens I suspected to be infertile decided to lay like six eggs and I was skeptical for a while but now she has 2 larvae and 3 eggs(losing only one egg is a record for me and Formica for egg to larva I mean) the reason there is no substrate is that I expected her not to lay any eggs so I didn't give her substrate and I'm too scared to move her because I'm afraid if I do she will eat them or I will accidentally squish them

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Edited by Antkeeper01, February 8 2022 - 4:37 PM.

[Antkeeper01]

the queen ended up getting a worker and it failed to eclose same thing happened again, and then again but instead of it failing she ate it so this queen is a failure. But I caught a Formica pallidefulva queen on fathers day who by now has laid 4 eggs, and a 8-12 queen(I took 6 queens) 50-100 worker(I took like 30) colony of Formica accreta colony in Colorado Springs which is doing pretty good.

[Antkeeper01]

Sorry I've been gone for so long my computer was being fixed. The formica pallidefulva queen now has a large larva and sevral eggs I caught 3 new formica queens when I went to breckenridge last week 2 different sp and i brrod boosted my favorite formica colony(my only formica colony) who are doing very well

[Ants_Dakota]

Sorry I've been gone for so long my computer was being fixed. The formica pallidefulva queen now has a large larva and sevral eggs I caught 3 new formica queens when I went to breckenridge last week 2 different sp and i brrod boosted my favorite formica colony(my only formica colony) who are doing very well

i would encourage checking on your formica colonies as little as possible, as that seems to decrease dying rates. they are very touchy ants