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Greg's Pogonomyrmex rugosus Journal (Discontinued)

Started By Gregory2455 , Aug 24 2014 5:34 PM
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#41 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 5 2014 - 1:01 PM

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It was hot out, so chances are the smaller ant, (with the smaller heat resistance) boiled on the inside as it attacked her.


#42 Offline DesertAntz - Posted October 5 2014 - 1:18 PM

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That thing is probably so dry by now, a slight touch and it'll burst into a cloud of dust.  :lol:


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#43 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 5 2014 - 1:29 PM

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Definitely.


#44 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 15 2014 - 8:29 PM

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I have 13 queens left altogether, with only 6 out of the original 23 seeming fertile.


#45 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 15 2014 - 11:14 PM

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Here is a video of both alate and dealate of this species. :)


#46 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 18 2014 - 8:13 PM

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Video Update: 10/18/2014


Edited by Gregory2455, October 18 2014 - 8:22 PM.

#47 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted November 3 2014 - 10:39 PM

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Update: 11/3/2014

This update is to get everyone on track.

Currently: I know 5 queens are fertile, as I have seen brood greater than eggs.

                3 of these have workers, while the other two recently stress ate their brood again.

                The alate in the second to last video has died. :(

                The overall queen count is down to 10, but I have put every single one- worker or no worker onto a semi-clausteral life style. NO MORE STARVED QUEENS.

 

In other news, the bejeweled queen is no longer bejeweled. :( I found the Solenopsis xyloni worker in her midden yesterday. I took it out to be preserved, but here is a picture of it first. ;)


#48 Offline AntsAreUs - Posted November 4 2014 - 3:05 PM

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Hmmm...


#49 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted November 8 2014 - 6:40 PM

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Update: 11/8/2014

One of the three queens with a worker died today. I will just give the lone worker to another queen. If she dies, she dies. :(


#50 Offline DesertAntz - Posted November 9 2014 - 12:44 PM

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You really like that dead worker, huh? 

 

She hung on for a while. 


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#51 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted November 9 2014 - 1:21 PM

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Yeah, but I am mourning the other queen with worker that died. I am pretty sure she was the first one to get a worker too. :(


#52 Offline AntsAreUs - Posted November 9 2014 - 4:24 PM

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So do you only have 1 or 2.


#53 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted November 9 2014 - 4:39 PM

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I only have two with workers.


#54 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted November 18 2014 - 8:05 PM

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In other news on my bad luck with this species- I FOUND MITES ON THE EX-BEJEWELED QUEEN AND HER WORKER!!! WHYYYYYYY???!!! :(   :mad: :mad2:


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#55 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted November 18 2014 - 11:14 PM

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Here is the worker of the bejeweled queen. I do not know why, but for some reason she seems to have stayed a callow worker, even though she is six and a half weeks old already. Is she a hybrid or are the mites to blame for this too? (Even though today is the first day I saw mites.)

You can clearly see mites around her eye.

 


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#56 Offline dean_k - Posted November 19 2014 - 9:31 AM

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From some documentaries I've seen, they put an insect in a tiny container and put carbon dioxide into it which will pass the insect out for a moment. They won't die. They will just pass out for few minutes.

 

That's your window of opportunity. Put it on a microscope and carefully remove mites.


#57 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted November 19 2014 - 12:26 PM

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I wish I had CO2...

#58 Offline Crystals - Posted November 19 2014 - 12:59 PM

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You can carefully pin half of the ant with cotton against the wall of the test tube, leaving the half with the mites free.  Takes a bit to get right, and some time to get the mites off.

If they were a species that hibernated in the cold, you could stick them in the fridge.


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#59 Offline drtrmiller - Posted November 19 2014 - 1:07 PM

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They will still slow down considerably if refrigerated.  They will not die.




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#60 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted November 19 2014 - 1:47 PM

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You can carefully pin half of the ant with cotton against the wall of the test tube, leaving the half with the mites free. Takes a bit to get right, and some time to get the mites off.
If they were a species that hibernated in the cold, you could stick them in the fridge.

Half of the ant? Both of them are covered... :(
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