I took a trip to the Santa Ana mountains a few weeks ago and I found 1 of these queens I also just got one queen from @Jeffbalderson
Edited by GOCAMPONOTUS, June 29 2024 - 6:38 AM.
I took a trip to the Santa Ana mountains a few weeks ago and I found 1 of these queens I also just got one queen from @Jeffbalderson
Edited by GOCAMPONOTUS, June 29 2024 - 6:38 AM.
Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti
1 M.ergatognya
Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots
Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti
1 M.ergatognya
Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots
Thanks!
Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti
1 M.ergatognya
Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots
Ants are small creatures... but together... they can rule the world.
Give me any species of Camponotus and I’ll take it (compared to the keepers on this forum; I have no Camponotus but 3 species RIP).I’d take those queens over C. floridanus in a heartbeat.
Keeping:
3x - S. molesta (colonies and single queen) 1x - C. nearcticus (founding but no eggs) New!
1x - C. chromaiodes (colony) 1x - C. subbarbatus (founding)
1x - F. subsericea (founding) 1x - T. sessile (mega colony)
3x - P. imparis (colonies)
2x - L. neoniger (founding)
Check out my C. nearcticus journal here: https://www.formicul...cticus-journal/
Check out my C. chromaiodes journal here: https://www.formicul...aiodes-journal/
cocoons spotted!
Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti
1 M.ergatognya
Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots
Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti
1 M.ergatognya
Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots
Edited by The_Gaming-gate, May 20 2024 - 11:46 AM.
Ants are small creatures... but together... they can rule the world.
Generally alate cocoons are larger than that of workers. The outliers being species with larger castes ie. Camponotus, however when founding you can tell right away. Males are much larger compared to nanitics in most cases.One thing I like about Solenopsis is that you can tell what caste the pupae is before they eclose- making the wait shorter to see if the queen is fertile or not.
Edited by ZTYguy, May 20 2024 - 2:09 PM.
Yes that is very true and these cocoons are seemingly normal size nanitics
Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti
1 M.ergatognya
Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots
Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti
1 M.ergatognya
Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots
Queen :A the one I caught has 4 cocoons.
Queen B the one I Bought has 2 cocoons.
One thing to note is the size difference Queen A is smaller than queen B
First and third pic are of queen B second pic is Queen A
Edited by GOCAMPONOTUS, May 31 2024 - 5:13 PM.
Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti
1 M.ergatognya
Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots
Yes, I did I took these a few hours ago and now she looks like queen B
Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti
1 M.ergatognya
Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots
Edited by AsdinAnts, May 31 2024 - 6:30 PM.
6/13/24
Finally good news:
Queen B has gotten her first worker!
Queen A has 6 cocoons and has new eggs
First three pics of B last two pics of queen A
Edited by GOCAMPONOTUS, June 13 2024 - 12:48 PM.
Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti
1 M.ergatognya
Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots
Congrats!
Brings back memories of my first time keeping ants, same time last year.
Very excited for you and good luck!
JOURNAL: Camponotus CA02 - First Time At Ant Keeping CLICK HERE
JOURNAL: Ectomomyrmex cf. astutus - Ant Species #2 CLICK HERE
28/7/24
One of the queens has progressed. Queen B she is up to 3 workers 3 coocons and about ~10 eggs with 2 small larvae.
Queen instead of enclosing a new worker she decided to eat it and 2 more of her cocoons. I fed her some sugar water.
I noticed colony B preferred the 1-4 ratio of sugar water while the single queen preferred 1-5 ratio.
(3rd cocoon is out of focus in the third pic)
Edited by GOCAMPONOTUS, June 28 2024 - 8:21 PM.
Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti
1 M.ergatognya
Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots
Some sad news the single queen died leaving 1 cocoon that I gave to my black C.vicinus
Good news though the main colony grew to 5 workers and i'm hoping they can get to 10 workers by the end of the year.
Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti
1 M.ergatognya
Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots
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