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[Alabama Anter]

Love the p imparis! THE Tetramorium c also had a nice population. How's the pheidole doing?

[Goldsystem]

Nice P. imparis you've got there! Where did you find the queen?

I found this girl in Portland Oregon

[Goldsystem]

Really liking your P. imparis ! Are those the ones that also go by "false honey pot ants" sometimes? With their gasters distended they really have a very pleasing look and shape about them.

Yup P.imparis do go by false honey pot ants, or winter ants

[Goldsystem]

Love the p imparis! THE Tetramorium c also had a nice population. How's the pheidole doing?

The pheidole are doing well they layed their first batch of eggs since moving into the mini hearth about a week ago and the eggs already hatched, and my tetramorium have 200-400 tiny larvae as well as large larvae and pupae

[Solenoqueen]

 

Love the p imparis! THE Tetramorium c also had a nice population. How's the pheidole doing?

The pheidole are doing well they layed their first batch of eggs since moving into the mini hearth about a week ago and the eggs already hatched, and my tetramorium have 200-400 tiny larvae as well as large larvae and pupae

 

Nice man!

[Goldsystem]

Thx

[Kevin]

I started with 4 tetra queens, just yesterday the second to last one was killed. I had two queens for a few months, but once the population gets to a certain point someone will be exiled

[Goldsystem]

I started with 12 and now it's down to two hopefully they might be special and let two queens stay

[Okeedoke22]

I also caught many Tetramorium Sp E.   I found a group of 6 queens huddled together with some eggs already.  So I kept them all together and after many months it twiddled down to 2.  And now finally only 1.  About 100 workers now maybe more. 

 

My Prenopelis Imparis has been a struggle.  I finally found the right temperture to keep them at and they have recovered a little. They were in a very hot place of my house that my Tetramorium's were thriving in. Unfortuntely they need to be much cooler.  

 

Still have not been able to find Camponotus Pennsylvanicus.     

 

Good Luck

[noebl1]

My Prenopelis Imparis has been a struggle.  I finally found the right temperture to keep them at and they have recovered a little. They were in a very hot place of my house that my Tetramorium's were thriving in. Unfortuntely they need to be much cooler.  

 

Still have not been able to find Camponotus Pennsylvanicus.     

 

I've got the opposite problem; couldn't find a single P. Imparis (the one I really really want and envious of these photos), but could find hundreds (no exaggeration) of C. Pennsylvanicus this Spring/Summer.  Guess I need to go to a bit more urban location, and you need to keep an eye out in heavily wooded areas.  Not sure how many there are in Central Park in NYC (especially as you need lots of rotten wood that may get cleaned up in Central Park? not sure).  However this upcoming Spring watch the MA/CT/NY threads (here and on AC) for the Nuptial flight posts and try Central park.  When C.Pennsylvanicus flies, at least last year was a good chunk of the North East all at the same time.

Edited by noebl1, November 4 2016 - 8:49 AM.

[Okeedoke22]

 

My Prenopelis Imparis has been a struggle.  I finally found the right temperture to keep them at and they have recovered a little. They were in a very hot place of my house that my Tetramorium's were thriving in. Unfortuntely they need to be much cooler.  

 

Still have not been able to find Camponotus Pennsylvanicus.     

 

I've got the opposite problem; couldn't find a single P. Imparis (the one I really really want and envious of these photos), but could find hundreds (no exaggeration) of C. Pennsylvanicus this Spring/Summer.  Guess I need to go to a bit more urban location, and you need to keep an eye out in heavily wooded areas.  Not sure how many there are in Central Park in NYC (especially as you need lots of rotten wood that may get cleaned up in Central Park? not sure).  However this upcoming Spring watch the MA/CT/NY threads (here and on AC) for the Nuptial flight posts and try Central park.  When C.Pennsylvanicus flies, at least last year was a good chunk of the North East all at the same time.

 

I really need to go to central Park more often.   Man I felt like I was looking everyday in the summer.  I'm a rookie so most days I'm going out for nothing. 

[Goldsystem]

I also caught many Tetramorium Sp E. I found a group of 6 queens huddled together with some eggs already. So I kept them all together and after many months it twiddled down to 2. And now finally only 1. About 100 workers now maybe more.

My Prenopelis Imparis has been a struggle. I finally found the right temperture to keep them at and they have recovered a little. They were in a very hot place of my house that my Tetramorium's were thriving in. Unfortuntely they need to be much cooler.


Still have not been able to find Camponotus Pennsylvanicus.

Good Luck

I have been keeping my p.imparis at around 65-69 degrees F and they have seemed to do very well at that temperature, and so far I have found that they seem to live in areas with walls, like walls that hold back dirt or at least that's were they are most prevalent in my area.

[noebl1]

 

I really need to go to central Park more often.   Man I felt like I was looking everyday in the summer.  I'm a rookie so most days I'm going out for nothing. 

 

 

I know that feeling

[noebl1]

@Goldsystem  Have you figured out the deal with hibernation and P. Imparis?  I've heard everything from it's a delayed/shorter hibernation to they don't hibernate at all in the winter as the usually shut down most of the summer.

[Goldsystem]

@Goldsystem Have you figured out the deal with hibernation and P. Imparis? I've heard everything from it's a delayed/shorter hibernation to they don't hibernate at all in the winter as the usually shut down most of the summer.

I haven't figured out the hibernation situation yet but I plan on getting a fridge and cooling them when I see no more P.imparis outside. Though I do believe they require some sort of hibernation, and from what I have seen they are not that active in the summer but very active spring and very early summer

[noebl1]

When I finally get a viable P. Imparis queen, I've thought about using a peltier cooler during the summer to try keep them <70F when the room gets warm.  Maybe next year I'll find a fertile one

[Goldsystem]

Well I wish you luck, I originally had two but one was Infertile

[Alabama Anter]

P imparis is also polygynous

[Solenoqueen]

P imparis is also polygynous

True, also being the only ant that loves the cold.

[Canadian anter]

P imparis is also polygynous

no they are pleometrophic meaning that they will onky be polygynous juring the founding stage

P imparis is also polygynous

True, also being the only ant that loves the cold.

there are also other cold loving prenolepis out there