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[That_one_ant_guy]

I found a couple of these queens on July 31st but only have one now. There's nothing much to say other than she has eggs, and I'll check up on them once a week and do an update then.


This will be the knew version of my journal I don't want any of the old drama on this shop so don't bring it up, all it'll do is escalate from there

Edited by That_one_ant_guy, August 15 2022 - 5:51 AM.

[That_one_ant_guy]

Checked up on her yesterday and gave her some nector. She had a pile of about six Eggies, I feel like doing operation no checkups... yea I'll check back up on her in about a month, sorry no pics this time.

[ReignofRage]

AntsTopia, it is clear that the original person who had an issue is creating alt accounts, but Tyr_Ants is a legit account who is someone else. 

[AntsTopia]

I don’t know what you’re talking about. Lol.

[AntsTopia]

westhollywoodant is AntUSA and AntUSA is CentralCaliAnts.

[ZTYguy]

Yes and now let’s move on, anyways I’m thoroughly excited to see if your queens get to workers. They seem to have a pretty good turnout as long as you give them what they need. In all of the myrmecocystus queens I have caught this season none have died so far. 

[That_one_ant_guy]

Yea I'm pretty excited too, after about 1 year and a half of trying to get a Myrmecocystus colony with workers, hopefully I'll have some luck😁

[AntsTopia]

Best of luck. I myself is expecting a Myrmecocystus queen in the mail. I am following all the Honey pot ant journals to see if I can get any exiperience with honey pot ants. By the way I have a permit for the honey pot ant queen I'm getting so no one worries. Does anyone know how long honey pot nanitics take to grow from egg to worker? They are a very interesting genus.

[That_one_ant_guy]

Read coc journal he has day to day updates from egg to worker https://www.formicul...】/?fromsearch=1

[AntsTopia]

Ty

[That_one_ant_guy]

Decided to brood boost her with some myrmecocystus mexicanus brood, thought it would be cool too see a placodops queen with some golden workers, shee seems to have accepted them. Her own brood pile is looking pretty good, she has a few larvae, perhaps I could finnaly raise a Myrmecocystus to workers... sorry for bad pics, she's in a plastic tube

[aznphenom]

Decided to brood boost her with some myrmecocystus mexicanus brood, thought it would be cool too see a placodops queen with some golden workers, shee seems to have accepted them. 

Is that a known thing? 

[AntsCali098]

 

Decided to brood boost her with some myrmecocystus mexicanus brood, thought it would be cool too see a placodops queen with some golden workers, shee seems to have accepted them. 

Is that a known thing? 

 

I think a lot of species usually accept brood from a related species

[AntsTopia]

So jealous. My Myrmecocystus Mendax queen just died. 

[ZTYguy]

Normally I would advise against boosting with brood that is not in the same species group or in this cause a sub genus. As Myrmecocystus mexicanus stands in the main genus while placodops is in the sub genus endiodioctes and is in the melliger species group. That’s the same concept of why you have a better chance of brood boosting Camponotus semitestaceus with sansabeanus brood rather then with clarithorax brood.

[That_one_ant_guy]

Normally I would advise against boosting with brood that is not in the same species group or in this cause a sub genus. As Myrmecocystus mexicanus stands in the main genus while placodops is in the sub genus endiodioctes and is in the melliger species group. That’s the same concept of why you have a better chance of brood boosting Camponotus semitestaceus with sansabeanus brood rather then with clarithorax brood.

oh do you think that the queen will attack the workers once they hatch/the workers atting the queen?

[ZTYguy]

 

Normally I would advise against boosting with brood that is not in the same species group or in this cause a sub genus. As Myrmecocystus mexicanus stands in the main genus while placodops is in the sub genus endiodioctes and is in the melliger species group. That’s the same concept of why you have a better chance of brood boosting Camponotus semitestaceus with sansabeanus brood rather then with clarithorax brood.

oh do you think that the queen will attack the workers once they hatch/the workers atting the queen?

 

More likely the queen will simply kill them, but there might be a slim chance they are excepted.

[AntsTopia]

I’ve added camponotus nearcticus pupae to a camponotus vicinus founding queen. Also camponotus flordanius pupae to another camponotus vicinus founding queen. So if I’m wrong here tell me, but I see that founding queens are extremely docile and tolerant. I even had a Prenolepis Imparis founding queen accept 50 Imparis workers from a established nest. So honestly anything is possible with founding queens.

[AntsTopia]

And I think the second picture shows that the queen could care less about the cocoons. There is a possibility that she will care for them but won’t open the cocoons. I think That_one_ant_guy you may have to pull a Nordic ants. Watch those cocoons very closely.