Beautiful Pheidole.

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Alza you know he only has one queen.

oh...

I am dying for a picture update.

This should be updated- also the dates are wrong.

Haha, good catch. I thought I fixed all of them.

Update 11-4-2014
 
The colony is dong fairly well. It is slowly growing, and I haven't seen any deaths. Right now there are about 12 workers, and a nice little pile of brood including quite a few fresh eggs. When my last Pheidole xerophila died, I gave their little pile of brood to these guys, and they seem to have excepted them.

"Day 5- The gilvescens still do not suspect a thing... They have no idea what the four of us are plotting." -P.xerophilla workers.

But seriously, I am jealous. Looks like they are doing great, but I am a bit surprised they accepted the P.xerophilla workers.

Update 12-9-2014
 
Well the queen's dead now. So much for these.

These were amazing ants, just like my Forelius.

So sorry Drew.

Edited by Gregory2455, July 23 2015 - 3:57 AM.

Update 7-23-2017
 

I finally found a whole bunch more of these queens in Wild Crossing, California on the night of 7-9-2017. I think these didn't fly until it was dark because I never actually saw them flying, I just found tons of them on my black light. Hopefully they will do better this time around. I put most of them in test tubes, but do have a few of them in my newly designed founding formicariums. I have a few tubes with two or three queens together.

They are all doing great so far with big piles of very small larvae now.

Update 8-9-2017
 

This new bunch of queens just got their first workers a few days ago.

Update 10-1-2017
 

I had a few with majors, but now only two. The largest colony had about 25 last week but now is down to 17. Something killed a bunch of my ants, including a lot of these.

So shiny and beautiful! Those majors are huge!! If I were you I would put a colony like this that seems to be doing so well into a terrarium. Maybe it would help them keep flourishing and increasing in numbers.

Update 2-18-2018
 

This colony just keeps getting bigger. They're up to about 120 workers now.