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[DesertAntz]

O. clarus starting at $500. Supply and demand 

[Gregory2455]

I do not suggest pricing them before you catch a queen, because usually you don't know how many you will catch. You do not want to get stuck with feeding 60 semi clausteral queens now do you?

[DesertAntz]

I could do it. 

 

If I were insane. 

[Trailandstreet]

Ok, I still have 13 colonies or founding gynes. So maybe of ih happens, I will ad a Camponotus to them.
Some of them will ne brought back to nature 😉
The main goals are making a nest for the Messor and getting my Manica rubida and the Temnothorax affinis founded.
Ok, I still have 13 colonies or founding gynes. So maybe of ih happens, I will ad a Camponotus to them.
Some of them will ne brought back to nature 😉
The main goals are making a nest for the Messor and getting my Manica rubida and the Temnothorax affinis founded.

[dermy]

Ha ha ha that post is the same thing twice!

 

Good luck selling anything for 500 doll hairs these days.

[kellakk]

My main goals are to get queens of these two species:

 

Liometopum occidentale

Pogonomyrmex rugosus

[Gregory2455]

I do not suggest test tubes for either of those, but still you will get away with keeping P.rugosus in test tubes.

[dspdrew]

kellakk, on 23 Dec 2014 - 5:13 PM, said:

My main goals are to get queens of these two species:

 

Liometopum occidentale

Pogonomyrmex rugosus

 

I got a colony of Liometopum occidentale last season and the one before, and both times the colonies suddenly died off.

[AntsAreUs]

My test tubes finally came in sadly I had like 10 of them broke but now I can really get into anting!

 

[kellakk]

dspdrew, on 25 Dec 2014 - 07:00 AM, said:

 

kellakk, on 23 Dec 2014 - 5:13 PM, said:

My main goals are to get queens of these two species:

 

Liometopum occidentale

Pogonomyrmex rugosus

I got a colony of Liometopum occidentale last season and the one before, and both times the colonies suddenly died off.

 

 

That's strange. I would think that since they're so common they'd also be easy to keep. But actually that's similar to my experiences in trying to keep Parcoblatta americana. They always die off, no matter how healthy-seeming they are.

[dspdrew]

Yeah it's very strange considerring the hills around here are absolutely infested with L. occidentale, and the number of workers per colony seems to be in the millions.

[Gregory2455]

This is why I think that not every thread should have the option to "be solved."

[dspdrew]

That's probably why I originally only had the feature enabled on the ID requests subforum. I'm actually putting it back that way. There's hardly ever any definite answer to anyone's questions except for ID requests.

[Gregory2455]

That is why the feature is the "Best Answer" and not the "Answer." That is why there should be an option for some topics to be answerable and some to be only discussions.

[Foogoo]

Temnothorax. Reading up  on them they seem like a really neat species. Considering how small they are though, I'm not sure how I'll come across one in the millions of acorns scattered everywhere.

[dspdrew]

These are actually pretty easy to catch. Not the ones that live in acorns, but just Temnothorax in general. When the weather is right, just run a black light trap up in the hills and canyons, and you just might find a queen or two. That's how I got all my Temnothorax queens last season. I think finding one wandering around while you're out hiking would be next to impossible because of their size.

[dean_k]

Is black light = UV light ?

[Gregory2455]

I think so.

[dspdrew]

dean_k, on 30 Dec 2014 - 9:23 PM, said:

Is black light = UV light ?

 

Yes. A plain UV light like you see used in bug zappers is even better. A black light is just a UV bulb with a filter to block out as much human-visible light as possible.

[Miles]

DesertAntz, on 19 Dec 2014 - 5:40 PM, said:

O. clarus starting at $500. Supply and demand 

That means I have $2000 worth of Odontomachus queens?