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[Gregory2455]

On 7/21/2015 I arrived in the desert at 7:00 PM. The second queen I dug up was a Pheidole gilvescens queen, and I ended up coming home with six queens.

 

When I came home I put some sand in their test tubes like I did with Myrmecocystus and Pogonomyrmex rugosus.

 

A couple days later they laid eggs.

 

A couple days ago three of them got workers. The other three are taking longer but all six should have workers in a week or so. As for the sand in their test tubes, I decided as they get workers, I will remove the majority of it so they are not burrow in it.

 

Edited by Gregory2455, February 20 2019 - 10:24 PM.

[Gregory2455]

Update: 9/3/2015

All of these colonies have over 20 workers now!

Edited by Gregory2455, September 3 2015 - 5:31 PM.

[Alza]

Population explosions are wonderful

[dspdrew]

Hopefully these continue to thrive. So many of the Pheidole I find in the desert get up to around twenty or so workers and then slowly die off until the queen is by herself for a month before dying too.

[Gregory2455]

These actually are pretty comfortable with the extra sand given to them.

[EthanNgo678]

I know its been a few years but what happened.