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Idontexist's odontomachus journal

Started By Idontexist , Feb 2 2024 9:12 AM

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#41 Offline antsriondel - Posted February 21 2024 - 3:46 PM

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Pictures?


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#42 Offline Idontexist - Posted February 22 2024 - 2:32 PM

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I'm working on figuring out how to upload pictures becauae imgur won't let me

#43 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted February 22 2024 - 3:52 PM

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Just dropping some tips down, Odontomachus larvae eat a LOT. I'm not sure if you already know this from your small past mess-ups, but make sure to feed them every other day! They get pretty big. Also, once larvae pupate (in a week or so given they have enough food), I think you can hold off on updates until workers eclose, since that whole stage itself takes around a month.

Edited by ANTS_KL, February 22 2024 - 3:52 PM.

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Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

YouTube: https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)

Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), ★ Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#44 Offline Idontexist - Posted February 24 2024 - 10:02 AM

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There's this one massive larva that doubles in size every 2 days

#45 Offline Idontexist - Posted February 25 2024 - 6:26 PM

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https://ibb.co/R0736qVheres (hopefully) an image of the larvae, imgur won't let me upload it so i used another website, fun fact, there's 5 more and the one pictured here is the already mentioned biggest larva who doubles in size every 2 days

#46 Offline futurebird - Posted February 25 2024 - 9:47 PM

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When I click the link it says the page is not found?


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Starting this July I'm posting videos of my ants every week on youTube.

I like to make relaxing videos that capture the joy of watching ants.

If that sounds like your kind of thing... follow me >here<. 

#47 Offline The_Gaming-gate - Posted February 26 2024 - 4:36 AM

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I'm working on figuring out how to upload pictures becauae imgur won't let me


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#48 Offline Idontexist - Posted February 26 2024 - 10:02 AM

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I found a winged yet solitary trap jaw ant queen, i catched her and prepared a test tube for her, but she died :/
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#49 Offline Idontexist - Posted February 26 2024 - 5:01 PM

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When I click the link it says the page is not found?

oh, they deleted it

#50 Offline Idontexist - Posted February 26 2024 - 5:06 PM

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https://ibb.co/bggPL...gallery/6XWSgwxhere are the larvae, biggest one not pictured
It deleted the pictures again :(
Does anyone know any good image uploaders?

Edited by Idontexist, February 26 2024 - 5:07 PM.

#51 Offline futurebird - Posted February 26 2024 - 5:23 PM

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What is the issue with imgur?

 

Are you able to login? 

 

I could try to suggest some services but I don't understand the issue you are having. 

 

I just tried imgbb and I think it works fine. You need to choose "don't autodelete" I think?

 

https://ibb.co/cCvS3TM


Edited by futurebird, February 26 2024 - 5:24 PM.

Starting this July I'm posting videos of my ants every week on youTube.

I like to make relaxing videos that capture the joy of watching ants.

If that sounds like your kind of thing... follow me >here<. 

#52 Offline Idontexist - Posted February 26 2024 - 6:11 PM

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Hopefully this time it won't autodelete itself https://ibb.co/SfwWH93
https://ibb.co/dmXP24N
https://ibb.co/nzFJPBg

#53 Offline Idontexist - Posted February 26 2024 - 6:15 PM

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I also managed to take a look at the largest larvae who is unlike the others sitting on the ground, this means its third instar since third instar larvae lose their suction cup protuberances when they grow up (source is https://www.livescie...nt-babies.html)meaning we should be getting pupa soon,

#54 Offline Idontexist - Posted February 26 2024 - 6:33 PM

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Name suggestions? I have been thinking if i should name the queen "osaka" or "basil" maybe even a made up name like "raw"

#55 Offline Idontexist - Posted February 26 2024 - 6:48 PM

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THIRD TRAP JAW ANT QUEEN FOUND!!!! this time it was a lone dealate

#56 Offline Idontexist - Posted February 26 2024 - 6:57 PM

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I believe these are odontomachus brunneus and i believe they are polygynous based on some sources allthough I'm not trying that out yet because both claims may be wrong,
What i mean by trying that out is I'm going to mix the two queens together although it sounds like a horrible idea so I'm not going to do it and instead probably have two separate colonies instead

#57 Offline AsdinAnts - Posted February 26 2024 - 8:41 PM

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Post a picture of the queen so someone on this forum can ID it
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Currently keeping
-T. immigrans

-B. patagonicus

-P. ???
I will want to also keep some other lasius types in the future.
You should also subscribe to my youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@AsdAnts

#58 Offline Idontexist - Posted February 27 2024 - 1:08 PM

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The resolution absolutely sucks but here you go

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#59 Offline Idontexist - Posted February 27 2024 - 1:10 PM

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https://ibb.co/nPY4fb5
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https://ibb.co/rsgGQM6
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#60 Offline Idontexist - Posted March 3 2024 - 10:40 AM

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https://ibb.co/jJpK4Jt
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https://ibb.co/LvNTGCn
I took one of the queens into a small tic tac container for a better picture (the newer one), is this odontomachus haematodus?
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