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Winter Ant (Prenolepis Imparis) colony success?

Started By ExponentMars , Nov 6 2021 8:44 AM

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#1 Offline ExponentMars - Posted November 6 2021 - 8:44 AM

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So, according to other antkeepers, Prenos are impossible to keep long-term - they always die off after the second year. Has anyone kept a successful long-term colony (more than 2 years), and if so, how did you do it? 

 

 


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Currently Keeping: 
Crematogaster sp., Camponotus Ca02, Tetramorium Immigrans
Wishlist: 
Acromyrmex, novos, Pogonomyrmex, Formica, and Lasius

#2 Offline ANTdrew - Posted November 6 2021 - 9:02 AM

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Noebl1 has had success with them. I would not consider it impossible to do.
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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#3 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted November 6 2021 - 10:07 AM

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Noebl1 has had success with them. I would not consider it impossible to do.

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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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#4 Offline ANTdrew - Posted November 6 2021 - 10:36 AM

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This is kind of a paraphrase. https://www.formicul...s/?fromsearch=1
I’d suggest PM’ing him.
"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 TacticalHandleGaming - Posted November 6 2021 - 9:44 PM

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I think Mack from THA has a colony that's 3 or 4 years old now.
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Currently kept species

L. neoniger, P. occidentalis, C. modoc, C. novaeboracensis, C. vicinus, T. immigrans, A. occidentalis, S. molesta, P. imparis, M. kennedyi, M semirufus, F. pacifica, P. californica, M. ergatogyna.

 

Previously kept species

T. rugatulus, B. depilis.

 

Looking for

Myrmecocystus pyramicus, Myrmecocystus testaceus

Pheidole creightoni, Pheidole inquilina, Crematogaster coarctata, Crematogaster mutans

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