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[evanmancini2011]

9/27 really nothing much today!

Edited by evanmancini2011, September 27 2024 - 7:17 PM.

[ANTdrew]

There is no need to update then.

[rptraut]

Hello Evanmancini2011;

How are you coming with the mites? I miss your updates.
RPT

[evanmancini2011]

Hello, long time since I have last posted on this journal. So far all of my ant colony's are still in hibernation and I will probably take them out in the beginning of February. Sadly when I checked on my pavement ants lots of the workers have died. I am guessing this is because at the start of hibernation I let them get to cold. But each of them still have 1-20 workers. Because of so many workers dying I will most likely take them out of the tubs and tubes setup and just keep them in their test tubes for know. Today I fed them a few drops of honey which they loved. I really hope the number of workers come back. I want them to grow to be a huge ant colony. I was wondering if anyone knows if this colony likes fruit flies or seeds?

 

The crematogaster colony is well and still in hibernation. Today I cleaned their outworld while I still can before they came out of hibernation. I have no idea if they still have mites but my guess is there not parasitic mites because none of the queens have died. My guess is this colony has 100 workers. This is by far the biggest colony I have ever owned. But I still want them to grow to as big as they can be. 

 

Lastly the harvester ant queen died. This is very sad to me because I wanted this queen to do well. I hope I can catch another queen this summer!

 

My goals for this ant season is to grow my pavement ant colony to the hundreds and maybe even grow the crematogaster colony to the thousands. This season I will start feeding the pavement ants every other day and try to feed the crematogaster colony every day so I can reach these numbers. I also want to move all my pavement ant colony's and my crematogaster ants into a proper nest this ant season! And I hope this year I can start growing a carpenter ant colony and catch many other queen ants!

 

Thank you so much for reading my journal. I will definitely start posting here more often!

Edited by evanmancini2011, Yesterday, 1:49 PM.