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Lazyant's Ant Expeditions

Started By lazyant , May 15 2022 10:09 AM

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#1 Offline lazyant - Posted May 15 2022 - 10:09 AM

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Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Ant Expeditions! This is a journal of everything I find on my anting trips! Ants, spiders, and everything else will be documented here! After I catch a new species I will post the queen in their respective journals. ALSO tomorrow I will be making a pheidole and tetramorium journals, look out for that! Without further ado the first queens!

 

20220515_104602.jpg Tetramorium sp. 

 

20220515_104543.jpg Also Tetramorium 

 

Hopefully we will find more great things! I will try to make these two queens work together to make a colony, it will probably work. Thanks for coming! :)


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#2 Offline NancyZamora4991 - Posted May 15 2022 - 11:02 AM

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Those two queens you have are Tetramorium immigrans and they will not tolerate more than one queen in a single colony. I suggest you separate them and have two colonies.


#3 Offline lazyant - Posted May 15 2022 - 11:05 AM

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Those two queens you have are Tetramorium immigrans and they will not tolerate more than one queen in a single colony. I suggest you separate them and have two colonies.

Oh, am the stupid


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#4 Offline azzaaazzzz00 - Posted May 15 2022 - 2:33 PM

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Yea its fine

And, ahem, its not like I didn't get a few queens killed because they weren't polygynous just yesterday...


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#5 Offline Dumpling - Posted May 15 2022 - 2:55 PM

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But let's be honest, who really wants more than one Tetra immigrans colony?


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#6 Offline azzaaazzzz00 - Posted May 16 2022 - 7:26 AM

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Well, if one wanted to have their sanity shattered, yes


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#7 Offline lazyant - Posted May 17 2022 - 9:09 PM

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Welcome back ladies and gentlemen! In this expeditions we will look at some other insects I found on these adventures! I have started blacklighting hopefully I will have more luck finding queens with this method, also many feederish insects to feed my colonies also on saturday I will pay a visit to to the Corteva wetland! See you then and without further ado here are the little friends I found!

 

20220517_212414.jpg As you can see a tiny beetle was near one of my plant pots I picked it up then flew away before I could get a better picture

 

20220517_212854.jpg A milkweed bug nymph ( Oncopeltus fasciatus )

 

20220517_212414.jpg Sorry for same pic 2x of the beetle I can't fix it, anyways here is a moth I found near my blacklight

 

This was all I wanted to show you, I will only be posting the interesting things now I find wish me luck on saturday!

 

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#8 Offline bmb1bee - Posted May 18 2022 - 9:20 AM

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I see those moths everywhere around my house, I think they're called garden tortrixes. My ants apparently really like them... You should have some luck finding queens soon, since this week will be pretty hot!


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#9 Offline lazyant - Posted May 18 2022 - 12:17 PM

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I see those moths everywhere around my house, I think they're called garden tortrixes. My ants apparently really like them... You should have some luck finding queens soon, since this week will be pretty hot!

I know! It's 91 degrees right now! Also I used to live in hayward just noticed you live there.


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#10 Offline bmb1bee - Posted May 18 2022 - 1:24 PM

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I see those moths everywhere around my house, I think they're called garden tortrixes. My ants apparently really like them... You should have some luck finding queens soon, since this week will be pretty hot!

I know! It's 91 degrees right now! Also I used to live in hayward just noticed you live there.

 

91 degrees?! You'd probably be able to find plenty of Tetramorium and Pheidole soon. Hayward barely has anything good when it comes to ants lol, there are plenty of Argentine ants and winter ants everywhere though.


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#11 Offline lazyant - Posted May 25 2022 - 8:37 PM

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OKOK, I can't find ANYTHING, not even tetra queens anymore! If anyone knows why please tell me! Like I go out at 5:30 am then start blaklighting at 8:30. Any tips would help!


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#12 Offline azzaaazzzz00 - Posted May 26 2022 - 4:19 AM

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Maybe go out a little earlier? Like maybe at 1 pm


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#13 Offline lazyant - Posted May 29 2022 - 7:05 PM

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I FINALLY FOUND A SPECIES OTHER THE TETRAMORIUM! Pogonomyrmex!

 

 

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Found her just outside the Back Diamond Mines!


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#14 Offline FloridaAnts - Posted May 30 2022 - 10:43 AM

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I FINALLY FOUND A SPECIES OTHER THE TETRAMORIUM! Pogonomyrmex!
 
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Found her just outside the Back Diamond Mines!


Lucky… no P. Badius for me yet

#15 Offline lazyant - Posted June 4 2022 - 7:26 PM

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Sadly, the Pogonomyrmex queen died she was weird because she just randomly started to twitch and curl up a lot

After a minute of that she died (Cue Antscanada sad music)

BUT A NEW CHALLENGER APPROACHES Veromessor andrei!

 

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Look out for a journal after first workers!  


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