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cooIboyJ's Solenopsis invicta journal

Started By cooIboyJ , Aug 24 2024 10:18 AM
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#81 Offline cooIboyJ - Posted October 8 2024 - 2:13 PM

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One of the queens is dead now!!!! The other is not harmed at all. Also, I now have a major!!!!!!!!!!!! :yahoo: :lol: I was shining my phone light on the test tube to see inside and out of the hole in the dirt where the queen and brood are, a major came out! I saw the major a couple days after the ants ate up a whole mealworm (large size, but I don't think that the meal worm was fully grown). The major has not come out of the test tube yet.


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Currently keeping:
Brachymyrmex patagonicus

Solenopsis invicta

Crematogaster sp.

#82 Offline AntsGodzilla - Posted October 8 2024 - 2:34 PM

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That's awesome! Majors of any species are great.


 

And many Carnivorous plants such as: Dionea muscipula (fly trap), Sarracenia x 'Fiona' ( American Pitcher plant), Nepenthese ventrata (Tropical Pitcher plant), and Pinguicula agnata x emarginata (Butterwort) (show off your plants here)

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Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores it's provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6: 6-8

 

Myrmecocystus depilis

 

#83 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted October 8 2024 - 2:38 PM

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One of the queens is dead now!!!! The other is not harmed at all. Also, I now have a major!!!!!!!!!!!! :yahoo: :lol: I was shining my phone light on the test tube to see inside and out of the hole in the dirt where the queen and brood are, a major came out! I saw the major a couple days after the ants ate up a whole mealworm (large size, but I don't think that the meal worm was fully grown). The major has not come out of the test tube yet.

Could it be a media at this size?


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

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Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 

#84 Offline AntsTx - Posted October 8 2024 - 3:36 PM

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Could it be a media at this size?

 

 

 

Could be. I hade some sad-looking "majors" at 30 workers


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Currently Keeping:

Camponotus texanus x2                                             Pheidole obtusospinosa - Pupae

Camponotus vicinus - 15-20 workers                         Solenopsis xyloni x7 - Batch of eggs

Camponotus pennsylvanicus - 75-85 workers           Pheidole lamia - Batch of eggs

Crematogaster lineolata x4 - 40-50 workers

Dorymyrmex bureni - 3 workers

Solenopsis invicta - 10000-15000 workers

Formica spp. - 5 workers

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis x2

 

#85 Offline cooIboyJ - Posted October 19 2024 - 10:48 AM

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I found a colony of Solenopsis invicta at a skate park and they had a ton of majors all eating chocolate on the ground. The majors were HUGE, probably around the size of a queen. I have now realized that I do not have majors but soldiers. 


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Currently keeping:
Brachymyrmex patagonicus

Solenopsis invicta

Crematogaster sp.

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