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AntBoi’s Lasius brevicornis journal


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#1 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted February 23 2023 - 2:06 PM

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I finally got my hands on my favorite species! I have been searching for these little yellow ants for years and despite being recorded in Maryland I never found any. I decided to buy some from Stateside Ants and they arrived in perfect condition. This colony has three queens and about fifteen workers. They have a decent pile of eggs, larvae, and pupae. I fed them some sugar water and took some videos for an upcoming YouTube video. After that I let them rest in their incubator for a day and then took them out and fed them some fruit flies. I was quite surprised when I compared Lasius brevicornis with Lasius neoniger to find that brevicornis was much smaller. I believe that the workers will get larger as the colony matures. I can’t wait to watch this colony grow!

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Edited by AntBoi3030, March 18 2023 - 7:06 AM.

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My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 





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