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Greg's (Old) Acromyrmex versicolor Journal (Discontinued)

Started By Gregory2455 , Sep 28 2014 3:27 PM
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#121 Offline dspdrew - Posted November 22 2014 - 3:55 PM

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Glad to see how well the colony is doing. That's some pretty good video.


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#122 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted November 28 2014 - 9:59 PM

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I saw a worker foraging for the first time today instead of the queen. :)


#123 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted December 22 2014 - 3:57 PM

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Update: 12/22/2014

Neither this colony nor the fungus has changed for a long time now, resulting in me not updating the fungus journal. I have a feeling that they are in some sort of diapause.


#124 Offline drtrmiller - Posted December 22 2014 - 4:45 PM

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I'm pretty sure fungus never sleeps, even if ants do. . .




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#125 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted December 22 2014 - 5:19 PM

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Does it look like I meant fungus? Haha, I meant ants were not adding to it.


#126 Offline dermy - Posted December 22 2014 - 6:53 PM

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Haha Sleepy Fungus! :lol:


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#127 Offline drtrmiller - Posted December 22 2014 - 7:21 PM

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Update: 12/22/2014

Neither this colony nor the fungus has changed for a long time now, resulting in me not updating the fungus journal. I have a feeling that they are in some sort of diapause.

 

Does it look like I meant fungus? Haha, I meant ants were not adding to it.

 

"They" is a plural pronoun, the antecedent of which would be the singular "fungus" and "colony."  Therefore, the implication is that both the colony and the fungus are sleeping ;~)

 

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used to refer to two or more people or things previously mentioned or easily identified


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#128 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted December 22 2014 - 7:22 PM

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They- the queen and the five workers and brood. :P


#129 Offline DesertAntz - Posted December 22 2014 - 7:24 PM

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Grab a pen and paper because you just got schooled. B)

 

Darn. Greg was quick on the draw. Now my comment is bogus.


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#130 Offline drtrmiller - Posted December 22 2014 - 7:28 PM

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They- the queen and the five workers and brood. :P

 

 

Grab a pen and paper because you just got schooled. B)

 

Darn. Greg was quick on the draw. Now my comment is bogus.

 

Not bogus at all! haha!

 

"Colony" is singular. The separate "workers" and "queen" were not mentioned in the sentence or complete thought, and so the antecedent to "they" is dangling/inferred, if in fact, the individual constituents to the colony were what you intended to describe by your usage of "they."



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#131 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted December 22 2014 - 8:19 PM

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Not bogus at all! haha!

 

"Colony" is singular. The separate "workers" and "queen" were not mentioned in the sentence or complete thought, and so the antecedent to "they" is dangling/inferred, if in fact, the individual constituents to the colony were what you intended to describe by your usage of "they."

 

Whatever, you win.  :rolleyes: I am not going to beat YOU in grammar obviously.


#132 Offline drtrmiller - Posted December 22 2014 - 8:22 PM

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Not bogus at all! haha!

 

"Colony" is singular. The separate "workers" and "queen" were not mentioned in the sentence or complete thought, and so the antecedent to "they" is dangling/inferred, if in fact, the individual constituents to the colony were what you intended to describe by your usage of "they."

 

Whatever, you win.  :rolleyes: I am not going to beat YOU in grammar obviously.

 

 

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#133 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted January 21 2015 - 11:16 PM

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Update: 1/21/2015

Today I saw what may be a larva. Which means, for the first time in two months, they have some brood! These guys seemed to want to hibernate I think, along with all my other ants- they just quit growing. But now they seem to be waking up again. :yahoo:


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#134 Offline Foogoo - Posted January 22 2015 - 8:18 AM

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they - 

 

used to refer to two or more people or things previously mentioned or easily identified

 

 

Antdude? Is that you?  :lol:


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#135 Offline dspdrew - Posted January 22 2015 - 8:26 AM

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they - 

 

used to refer to two or more people or things previously mentioned or easily identified

 

 

Antdude? Is that you?  :lol:

 

No. Antdude is a self-proclaimed grammar nazi. drtrmiller is more of a supreme grammar ninja according to some of his latest proposals to the mods of the forum.


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#136 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted January 22 2015 - 10:01 AM

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LOL! Hahahahaha... :lol:

#137 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted February 3 2015 - 10:51 PM

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Update: 2/3/2015

I see some eggs!!! Yay! They have so many hidden corners, folds, and pockets in the fungus, I am pretty sure there are still some larvae in there from last year too. Also, there is an unidentified object (which I zoomed in on in the video below) that may be the gaster of a pupa, but I cannot prove it.


#138 Offline dspdrew - Posted February 4 2015 - 1:32 AM

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Glad to see they're doing well and the fungus looks healthy. :)


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#139 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted February 4 2015 - 11:08 AM

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Thanks! :)

#140 Offline Vendayn - Posted February 6 2015 - 6:56 PM

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Have you tried orange peel for these ants? Acromyrmex and Leafcutter ants in general, love citrus fruits and one of their favorites. Was re-reading the information on them, and saw something about it. I think just the peel though, not sure about the actual fruit.

I saw it here:
http://www.alexander...yrmex/i-6qJbDjw

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