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[evanmancini2011]

This is the start of my ant keeping journal. I live in Colorado and love ants. I currently keep 1 Tetramorium ant queen, 4 Tetramorium ant colonies with 10-20 workers, 10 solenopsis queens, a pogonomyrmex occidentalis colony with one worker and a Crematogaster ant colony with 100-110 workers. I will plan to post every day about ants in this journal! Don't worry I don't plan to post this many pictures every time on this journal I just want you guys to meet all of my ants! Here are the pictures of the ants!

This is my Crematogaster ant colony in one test tube!

This is the basic setup for my Crematogaster colony!

 The Crematogaster ant colony is bl]ue because I recently gave them sugar water dyed blue!

And finally here are all the queens and brood!

Here are the pavement ant colony's 

Here is Pavement ant colony number 1 in a test tube setup!

Here is Pavement Ant Colony number 2 in a AntsCanada test tube portal!

Here is Pavement Ant Colony number 3 in a test tube!

And here is Pavement Ant Colony number 4 in a test tube setup!

This is the Pogonomyrmex Occidentalis queen and one worker.

And here one of my 10 solenopsis queens!

 

 

I hope you enjoy this journal!

[rptraut]

Hello evanmancini2011;

 

Thanks for the introduction to your colonies.   I look forward to hearing about their development in the future.    Does one of your Crematogaster colonies have multiple queens?    Please keep us updated.

Good Luck

RPT

[evanmancini2011]

Yes rptraut, the Crematogaster colony has five queens!

Thank You for asking!

[evanmancini2011]

9/20 Today was a sad and fun day. The happy part was I got to feed my pogonomyrmex occidentalis ants seeds today and I went on a ant hike but sadly did not find anything but it was still very fun! The sad part is my cramatogahster ant colony with 100-110 workers have red and white mites. The Mites only attach themselves to each of the six ant queens. I have no idea where the mites came from. But I am think of buying predatory mites to try to get rid of them! If anyone has any tips on this problem please say so! I hope I get rid of these Mites because this is the longest ant colony I have ever had. 

Thank you for reading this Journal!

Here are is a picture of the mites I saw!

[ANTdrew]

Time to focus on solutions and stop bringing up the problem. No need to dig up bad mojo, so to speak. Mites are truly the worst thing that can happen to an ant keeper.