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GoCAMPONOTUS C.laevissimus journal

Started By GOCAMPONOTUS , May 25 2024 1:57 PM

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#1 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted May 25 2024 - 1:57 PM

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A few weeks back Got a five worker colony of C.leavissimus and they now have two coocons and some larva.

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Edited by GOCAMPONOTUS, May 25 2024 - 1:58 PM.

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Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

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Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 

#2 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted May 31 2024 - 4:56 PM

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This colony is up to 6 workers and 3 cocoons.

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Edited by GOCAMPONOTUS, May 31 2024 - 4:58 PM.

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Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

1 M.ergatognya

 

 

 

 

Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 

#3 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted July 3 2024 - 3:32 PM

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This colony lost most of their workers due to old age and now they sit at 3 workers with different brood Cocoons,larvae,and eggs. They would have 4 but she didn't eclose right as her legs are stuck. She is still alive trying to move.

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Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

1 M.ergatognya

 

 

 

 

Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 

#4 Offline Stubyvast - Posted July 3 2024 - 5:29 PM

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Wow hope the worker makes it! Did her exoskeleton structure fail or did she just not harden fully?

I bet your colony will bounce back pretty quick once the first proper workers arrive.


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Currently raising: 

Myrmica rubra (1 queen +  ~5 workers)

Lasius niger (single queen + ~90+ workers)

Lasius neoniger (3 single queen + brood)

Formica spp. (Queen [likely parasitic, needs brood])

Formica pacifica (Queen)

Also keeping a friend's tetramorium immigrans for the foreseeable future. Thanks CoffeBlock!

#5 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted July 3 2024 - 5:34 PM

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It seems like she had some sort of white goo connecting her legs


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Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

1 M.ergatognya

 

 

 

 

Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 

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