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Post by Wood~Ant on May 16, 2018 22:13:58 GMT
Hope the mitis do well for you! If they do as well as yours are doing I will be happy.
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Post by TenebrousNova on May 17, 2018 23:19:26 GMT
Hope the mitis do well for you! If they do as well as yours are doing I will be happy. Just watched the video of the new colony. You always seem to get early majors, how lucky! Like yours, one of my mitis workers also has a missing leg and it's she who is sent out foraging most of the time. I think you'll be surprised at how much their slim gasters swell when they've had a drink of honey water.
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Post by Wood~Ant on May 18, 2018 7:44:17 GMT
It was fascinating to watch her move each egg individually, then after putting the egg in the nest run back to the test tube and pick up another. Even when she had emptied the test tube and I removed it, she kept searching around the foraging arena to make sure she had got them all.
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Post by Black Ant on May 21, 2018 12:34:07 GMT
Which of your current Campo species would you say are your favourite Wood.? Mine are definitely the C. substitutus, and second are the cruentatus and nicobarensis. 4069d64f1fc348f27b3ecbe1f915d4f9
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Post by Wood~Ant on May 21, 2018 14:03:05 GMT
Which of your current Campo species would you say are your favourite Wood.? Mine are definitely the C. substitutus, and second are the cruentatus and nicobarensis. 4069d64f1fc348f27b3ecbe1f915d4f9 As my collection stands at present, yes likewise. My habereri are a firm favourite too.
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Post by TenebrousNova on May 21, 2018 14:17:50 GMT
I like the albosparsus for their markings, which almost look like they've been painted onto them. I've never seen them for sale though.
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Post by TenebrousNova on May 31, 2018 14:50:47 GMT
An impressive fedtschenkoi colony, Wood! Told you they'd be a bit of a handful. I enjoyed watching those majors shoving the queen into the nest, looks like a few of them are even bigger than she is. Hope they do well for you!
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Post by Wood~Ant on May 31, 2018 14:54:15 GMT
An impressive fedtschenkoi colony, Wood! Told you they'd be a bit of a handful. I enjoyed watching those majors shoving the queen into the nest, looks like a few of them are even bigger than she is. Hope they do well for you! Thanks, just need the queen to lay some eggs now once she's settled in. In the 2nd video you can see a super major has a head twice the size of the queen's head.
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Post by TenebrousNova on Jun 1, 2018 13:33:04 GMT
My own xiangban seemed to enjoy a bit of grape I gave them yesterday, have you tried yours on fruit?
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Post by Wood~Ant on Jun 1, 2018 13:41:32 GMT
My own xiangban seemed to enjoy a bit of grape I gave them yesterday, have you tried yours on fruit? I will if I ever see them out foraging.
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Post by TenebrousNova on Jun 2, 2018 8:59:22 GMT
C. herculeanus: Glad to see this colony is growing quickly! It sounds like (Fingers crossed) you're going to have better luck with this colony than your older attempts.
C. mitis: Shame to hear about the worker dying. But I'm sure the two majors will be able to help the queen raise those eggs, which should hatch before long?
C. fedtschenkoi: I've had about four worker deaths so far, but I've attributed them to old age since the latest one was lying feebly on her side for a while before she died. I can only speculate that your workers have died whilst acclimating to their new home, since they were in the post a day longer than they should've been. Hopefully the queen will become productive soon.
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Post by TenebrousNova on Feb 15, 2019 15:25:48 GMT
What kind of conditions are you keeping your fedtschenkoi in? There's still no pupae or eggs at all in my colony so far and I've never actually seen them taking food into the nest.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Feb 15, 2019 17:49:48 GMT
What kind of conditions are you keeping your fedtschenkoi in? There's still no pupae or eggs at all in my colony so far and I've never actually seen them taking food into the nest. Inside our airing cupboard at around 23 to 27 Celsius, and I add water to the nest twice a week to maintain just enough humidity to be about 35%, but keep any outer nest chambers fairly dry and the inner chambers just damp. For desert ants they do drink a lot, so honey water is given daily; but solid food like crickets and locust only every 7 days.
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Post by TenebrousNova on Mar 7, 2019 16:43:27 GMT
I hope your xiangban colony picks up. I know that feeling of discouragement, I see how well your fedtschenkoi colony is doing yet mine refuses to eat and there's no progress at all. They've even eaten some larvae. Hopefully things will change for my fedtschenkoi and your xiangban?
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Post by Wood~Ant on Mar 7, 2019 16:59:01 GMT
I hope your xiangban colony picks up. I know that feeling of discouragement, I see how well your fedtschenkoi colony is doing yet mine refuses to eat and there's no progress at all. They've even eaten some larvae. Hopefully things will change for my fedtschenkoi and your xiangban? I'll drink to that.
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