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[Gregory2455]

The bejeweled ones worker is eclosing as I write this!

[Gregory2455]

Update: 10/3/2014

Some of the infertile queens have started to die now, I am down to 18 of these queens, three of which have workers, and a few are getting near.

As of now, the bejeweled one has had this worker for a few days. The worker does not seem to want to take off the dead Solenopsis xyloni from her leg! 

Here are some pictures of the bejeweled one with her first worker.

 

[Tpro4]

So about this, what is your plan to catch them.

[Gregory2455]

What do you mean catch them? They are in test tubes.

[dspdrew]

Maybe your test tubes are falling?

[Tpro4]

I meant how do you catch them, or attract them.

[Gregory2455]

Maybe your test tubes are falling?

 

What?

[Gregory2455]

I meant how do you catch them, or attract them.

 

Tpro, let me get you started. I will make a new thread explaining how I do my anting in the desert, Drew and others who go to the desert can contribute. It is basically the same as anting anywhere else, but rain matters the most for a flight to start.

[dspdrew]

What?

Tpro4 asked how you planned to catch them.

[Gregory2455]

I know, but what did you mean by, "Maybe your test tubes are falling?"

[dspdrew]

Haha, falling test tubes should be caught.

[Gregory2455]

I have never dropped a test tube.

[Foogoo]

It sounds like it took your Bejeweled worker about 2 weeks to go from pupae to eclosing? Is this about the time frame for more Pogonomyrmex? My californicus has a pile of larvae and at least a few pupae and I'm impatiently waiting for more workers!

[Gregory2455]

Pogonomyrmex take for ever for brood to develop.

[dspdrew]

It sounds like it took your Bejeweled worker about 2 weeks to go from pupae to eclosing? Is this about the time frame for more Pogos? My californicus has a pile of larvae and at least a few pupae and I'm impatiently waiting for more workers!

Should be about a month and a half from egg to worker.

[Gregory2455]

[Gregory2455]

[dspdrew]

That fire ant on her leg is pretty funny.

[Gregory2455]

Yeah, the worker doesn't care about it as of now, so looks like it might stay on.

[DesertAntz]

I wonder how that happened? Did the ant die of old age as it was attacking her (lol) or was it unable to remove itself and died of starvation?