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[TennesseeAnts]

After three years of searching, I've finally found Cryptopone gilva once more. I collected the colony out of a moderately decayed White Pine log on 3/21/22 after several hours of digging through wood and aspirating workers and larvae out of the many random tunnels these ants inhabit. I came up with roughly a hundred workers, several dozen larvae and a single dealate queen in the end. So far they've been pretty great, living in a petri dish nest and feeding baby mealworms to their many hungry larvae.

 

Pics coming soon!

[TennesseeAnts]

Update: 4/15/22

 

This colony has done wonderfully so far. There have been only a few worker deaths so far, and their brood piles have been growing a ton. I checked on the colony last night shortly after I got my new Proceratium colony set up and I saw several dozen new eggs! They've still been living off mealworms and small amounts of honey alone up to this point, and have been super easy to take care of. 

 

A blurry picture of one of their new egg piles:

 

[United-Ants]

Beautiful ants

[TennesseeAnts]

Beautiful ants

I completely agree! You can expect some new uploads on my channel for both this colony and the Proceratium colony shortly.