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What excites you most about a possible sp. you'd like to keep?

Started By futurebird , Aug 26 2021 6:12 PM

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Poll: What excites you most? Choose your top reason(s) (25 member(s) have cast votes)

What excites you most about a species of ant? You can choose more than one reason.

  1. Really Big Ants (11 votes [6.79%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.79%

  2. Scary Ants (impressive look or dangerous sting) (4 votes [2.47%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.47%

  3. Complicated life cycle (strange diet, a challenge) (8 votes [4.94%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.94%

  4. Fast colony growth (12 votes [7.41%])

    Percentage of vote: 7.41%

  5. Beautiful good looking ants (11 votes [6.79%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.79%

  6. local ants, but not widely known hidden gems (7 votes [4.32%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.32%

  7. Easy care, hardy (10 votes [6.17%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.17%

  8. Not messy, won't muck up glass (5 votes [3.09%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.09%

  9. Not dangerous, no sting (4 votes [2.47%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.47%

  10. Really small ants (6 votes [3.70%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.70%

  11. Can live in unique formicarium (9 votes [5.56%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.56%

  12. Fast ants (4 votes [2.47%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.47%

  13. Slow ants (4 votes [2.47%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.47%

  14. Eats anything (8 votes [4.94%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.94%

  15. interesting interactions with other insects/arthropods (12 votes [7.41%])

    Percentage of vote: 7.41%

  16. local ants with childhood memories (4 votes [2.47%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.47%

  17. exoitic, exciting, strange (12 votes [7.41%])

    Percentage of vote: 7.41%

  18. weird looking body (7 votes [4.32%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.32%

  19. Casts, polymorphism (14 votes [8.64%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.64%

  20. Ants no one else has kept (10 votes [6.17%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.17%

Provided it was legal and safe which of the following would you want?

  1. Big hulking camponotus (9 votes [7.83%])

    Percentage of vote: 7.83%

  2. Turtle ants (11 votes [9.57%])

    Percentage of vote: 9.57%

  3. leafcutter ants (15 votes [13.04%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.04%

  4. multiple queen ants (6 votes [5.22%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.22%

  5. tiny rare ants that live on fairy dew (7 votes [6.09%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.09%

  6. ants that grow like crazy (7 votes [6.09%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.09%

  7. Ants that have a powerful sting (6 votes [5.22%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.22%

  8. Large ants that hunt (11 votes [9.57%])

    Percentage of vote: 9.57%

  9. ants that live in twigs (10 votes [8.70%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.70%

  10. seed eating ants (8 votes [6.96%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.96%

  11. ants that farm mealy bugs (7 votes [6.09%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.09%

  12. weaver ants (12 votes [10.43%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.43%

  13. shiny armored ants (6 votes [5.22%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.22%

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#1 Offline futurebird - Posted August 26 2021 - 6:12 PM

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Here is a poll ... the options are probably incomplete so feel free to add your own. What makes you excited about a kind of ant?


Edited by futurebird, August 26 2021 - 6:13 PM.

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Starting this July I'm posting videos of my ants every week on youTube.

I like to make relaxing videos that capture the joy of watching ants.

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#2 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 27 2021 - 6:12 AM

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I love the idea of a really small species with small and manageable colonies. Like Temnothorax or something similar.
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#3 Offline TestSubjectOne - Posted August 27 2021 - 9:32 AM

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I love the idea of a really small species with small and manageable colonies. Like Temnothorax or something similar.

I've wanted to keep Temnothorax for a while now. There is a lot of appeal in having an adult colony that you can keep in a petri dish!


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- Crematogaster sp. (1 queen, 600 workers)

- Liometopum occidentale (1 queen, 800 workers)

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#4 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 27 2021 - 1:13 PM

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I love the idea of a really small species with small and manageable colonies. Like Temnothorax or something similar.

I've wanted to keep Temnothorax for a while now. There is a lot of appeal in having an adult colony that you can keep in a petri dish!
I have a THA inception chamber in the hopes that I can find some.

#5 Offline M_Ants - Posted August 27 2021 - 2:07 PM

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I love the idea of a really small species with small and manageable colonies. Like Temnothorax or something similar.

I've wanted to keep Temnothorax for a while now. There is a lot of appeal in having an adult colony that you can keep in a petri dish!
I have a THA inception chamber in the hopes that I can find some.

 

Try blacklighting. I caught tons by going out on a trail on a hot humid night. They swarmed my flashlight. 


Veromessor pergandei

Veromessor andrei

Crematogaster sp. 

Pogonomyrmex cf cali and rugosus

Various Pheidole

C. yogi 

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#6 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted August 28 2021 - 7:41 AM

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I hope to keep ponerines. I just love primitive ants in general. I also wanna try acropyga BUT I can't find queen.

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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.

#7 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 28 2021 - 8:28 AM

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I hope to keep ponerines. I just love primitive ants in general. I also wanna try acropyga BUT I can't find queen.

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Agreed, besides keeping the Acropyga, as I can’t.

#8 Offline futurebird - Posted August 28 2021 - 8:33 AM

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My dream is to keep turtle ants. But I feel like I have a lot to learn before even trying. There is a species in the south in the US and I guess I could look into a permit ... but I want to successfully keep some more basic colonies alive for a few years before getting such special ants. 


Starting this July I'm posting videos of my ants every week on youTube.

I like to make relaxing videos that capture the joy of watching ants.

If that sounds like your kind of thing... follow me >here<. 

#9 Offline ANTdrew - Posted August 28 2021 - 12:28 PM

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Where I live, Colobopsis are absurdly easy to find with blacklights.
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