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[Diesel]

I'm Surprised these didn't do well for you. i got a small colony from a GAN farmer that had about 25 or so workers. this colony is well into the 100-125 range now. very super easy to care for. 1 cricket leg every 3-4 days and some honey water and the occasional bug that i kill from the house. obviously not the same species but all in all very hardy. I'm keeping Temnothorax Longispinosus. they seemed to do better once i made an acorn setup. i glued 3/4 of an acorn down to a clear piece of plastici also made a hydration tube with clear tubing and made a hole directly into the acorn. almost identical to a test tube that i hydrate every couple days. it does not leak in to acorn itself aside from that i have a test tube setup in the outworld that helpsany hydration issues that may not be getting for inside the acorn.

[dspdrew]

Update 1-13-2018

The last queen finally died a little while back.

[dspdrew]

Update 7-16-2018

I found another one of these in Trabuco Canyon, California again around 9:00 PM on 7-6-2018.

[dspdrew]

Update 8-15-2018

This queen just recently got her first worker.

[dspdrew]

Update 12-7-2018

This queen had two workers, but they died off shortly after I moved them to a small starter formicarium. After putting it back in a test tube, it eventually produced more brood. Now it has one worker and a few larvae, and I just put them back into a formicarium.

[EthanNgo678]

update

[dspdrew]

Update 4-6-2019

This colony made quite a comeback. They now have 15 workers, and even more large larvae and pupae. This colony should be twice its size in about a month.
 

 

[Rstheant]

Please don’t let it have a classic Drew ending...

[TennesseeAnts]

Update 4-6-2019
This colony made quite a comeback. They now have 15 workers, and even more large larvae and pupae. This colony should be twice its size in about a month.
 

 

Glad they made a good comeback!

[dspdrew]

Update 11-8-2019

The colony is still growing. They are now up to about 100 workers. I'm a little surprised how large the workers are now. I had no idea Temnothorax workers could get up to 4 mm in length. Maybe I should revisit my old ID thread, having such large specimens now. The colony has also produced their first male alate.

 

 

 

I'm trying to move them into a large starter formicarium, but these things love such dry conditions, they are still sitting in the their old formicarium, and it's been completely dry for days.

 

[ponerinecat]

these do not look like the original queens

[dspdrew]

these do not look like the original queens

 

Different lighting.

[dspdrew]

Update 3-20-2021

I just found the queen dead today. They have been producing a bunch of males, and it looks like all of the brood they have now are probably going to be males as well.

[Lillyrose]

Ugh .. I'm sorry. It's so frustrating when they die for no known reason.