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Hello from central California

Started By lpst , Oct 21 2017 12:40 PM

bakersfield

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#1 Offline lpst - Posted October 21 2017 - 12:40 PM

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Hey everyone, I'm William. New to ant keeping, just bought some formacaria from Tar Heel Ants and some test tubes. looking forward learning more about these fascinating creatures.

Present colonies: Solenopsis Xyloni
Past colonies: Camponotus Vicinus, Solenopsis Xyloni, Brachymyrmex

#2 Offline T.C. - Posted October 21 2017 - 12:44 PM

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Welcome to formiculture.

High Quality and Affordable Ant Keeping Gear

#3 Offline StopSpazzing - Posted October 21 2017 - 3:03 PM

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Welcome to the forum!

> Ant Keeping Wiki is back up! Currently being migrated from old wiki.

Looking to adopt out: Crematogaster sp. (Acrobat Ants) colonies

#4 Offline MrPurpleB - Posted October 21 2017 - 8:33 PM

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Welcome to the forums, William. Hope the forums can help you in your antkeeping. Do you have any colonies atm :?

#5 Offline lpst - Posted October 21 2017 - 9:18 PM

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Welcome to the forums, William. Hope the forums can help you in your antkeeping. Do you have any colonies atm :?

Thank you, I do not have any colonies ATM, I have contacted the GAN so I am working on that, I do have few thousand workers(unknown if a queen is there) from redoing my backyard we dug into a big nest and it had to go. I didn't want them to get tossed so I put the scoop in a 5gal bucket rimmed with EV olive oil and have been feeding them for a few days, they are doing well as I can tell, they have taken up in a brick I have carved holes into and are clearing out their dead. They haven't touched any proteins just sugars and water. I think I will just keep them as is for time being and just study them for a bit. Not sure what they are, I just figured regular "odorous house ants" they stink if squished. they are about 2-3mm some about 5mm and dark brown/black color

Edited by lpst, October 21 2017 - 9:19 PM.

Present colonies: Solenopsis Xyloni
Past colonies: Camponotus Vicinus, Solenopsis Xyloni, Brachymyrmex