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[Origional_Username]

Hello all,

I seem to forgotten to introduce myself as I was just so excited and impressed by the vast amount of info available here I just had to start reading. I have posted a few times but mostly I have been reading. lets see a little about myself, I am not too good at registering names, I like ants, lives in Arizona, and I am 27 years old. I have had ant fever for about 4 months now.

A little about my ants. I have found queens of 3 ant species, Pogonomyrmex rugosus, Solenopsis invicta, and what I think is a Brachymyrmex sp. (I would try to id them if I had a better camera, they are so tiny!)  All the fire ants died, probably my fault as I sorta rushed into this. Half of my Pogonomyrmex's have died, at least partially my fault but they also seem to not do to well in captivity from some of the posts I have read. As for my Brachymyrmex I have 4 queens in total but only one has workers,12 of them. All standard test tube setups.

Looking forward to reading more of the available content, thank you contributors.

[spider_creations]

Hello and welcome to the fourm, it's awesome to see there are other people in Arizona,becuase I live in Arizona.

[dspdrew]

Welcome. You're living in the best place for this hobby.

[NightsWebs]

as far as pogonomyrmex go they do very well in captivity, I currently have several Rugosus colonies and a P. Californicus colont of nearly 2000 ants.  and an additional 4 colonies of 7-10 ants.  Pogonomyrmex are great robust ants and no you don't have to have them in dirt set ups which many people assume.

[NightsWebs]

Welcome to the forum.

[Origional_Username]

Thank you everyone for the welcome.

 

 

as far as pogonomyrmex go they do very well in captivity, I currently have several Rugosus colonies and a P. Californicus colont of nearly 2000 ants.  and an additional 4 colonies of 7-10 ants.  Pogonomyrmex are great robust ants and no you don't have to have them in dirt set ups which many people assume.

 

I could just be bad at this still, I know I have disturbed them too much in the beginning. The difficulties I thought I had read about was that they are very nervous in the test tube stage. Also that someone catches a bunch of them and only a few make it. I tried to find the thread but I am terrible at forum navigation in general.

 

 

 

Hello and welcome to the fourm, it's awesome to see there are other people in Arizona,becuase I live in Arizona.

I also find it pleasing to know of others around with the same interest. When out collecting I have had many strange conversations with people who thought I was crazy or stirring up trouble.

 

 

Welcome. You're living in the best place for this hobby.

 

Thank you. I am looking forward to being able to travel again, some really neat species are around 20 to 50 miles away. For example I know that many people have found honeypot ants out in Tucson. I want to eat one of those honeypot repleats 

[sgheaton]

You eat one and report back to us...

....I'll stick to gummy bears thank you.....

Edited by sgheaton, September 30 2016 - 10:58 AM.

[T.C.]

 

You eat one and report back to us...

....I'll stick to gummy bears thank you.....

 

Oh! You have never tried eating one?

Welcome to the forum, it's a good community here!

[sgheaton]

I mean....it's ...like...whatever you fed them. So Sunburst with some..crunchiness to it.... Its not like you're going to be making gushers!

 

 

......do ants like gushers?? Crunchy gusher....