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Post by Zarbi on Mar 7, 2019 18:53:00 GMT
It's odd how a species that doesn't do well for one ant keeper, does well for another. Good luck to you both and I hope your respective colonies problems resolve soon.
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Post by TenebrousNova on Mar 19, 2019 13:16:46 GMT
Congrats on the fedtschenkoi male! He's a lovely colour. A shame that he probably won't live for long though.
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Post by TenebrousNova on Apr 5, 2019 20:26:44 GMT
The mitis colony is looking good! Their pink eggs are unusual, aren't they?
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Post by Wood~Ant on Apr 5, 2019 22:14:05 GMT
The mitis colony is looking good! Their pink eggs are unusual, aren't they? The eggs look white in the test tube, but pink in the light.
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Post by TenebrousNova on Apr 14, 2019 15:34:54 GMT
Glad to see that the xiangban queen is getting her act together. Have they been eating much lately? Mine have taken a liking to the smallest size locusts. Also, I love how your bird is always merrily chirping away in the background in your videos.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Apr 14, 2019 16:06:31 GMT
Glad to see that the xiangban queen is getting her act together. Have they been eating much lately? Mine have taken a liking to the smallest size locusts. Also, I love how your bird is always merrily chirping away in the background in your videos. They seem to be eating small crickets, but I haven't tried them on locusts this year as last year the colony didn't touch them. The chirping birds are our Bengal finches, as I asked Pip our canary to be quiet and he did the whole time I was filming. Normally he doesn't shut up, so it was good of him.
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Post by TenebrousNova on May 6, 2019 0:20:06 GMT
I can't get over how enormously fat your herculeanus queen is! Way bigger than mine.
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Post by Wood~Ant on May 6, 2019 6:54:55 GMT
I can't get over how enormously fat your herculeanus queen is! Way bigger than mine. She is a big lady, and before she laid eggs this year she was even plumper than she is now.
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Post by TenebrousNova on May 11, 2019 14:35:41 GMT
I found that when my Camponotus mitis colony was small, they were very picky eaters. Have you tried them on fruit flies or mosquitoes? Mine would actually take those into the nest, even if they only nibbled or licked at them. Even now that my colony has about 90 workers, they have days when they won't accept insects at all (But almost always accept sugar water). When your colony has larvae they should definitely become more interested though. I wonder if they'd be interested in fruit at all? I haven't tried that.
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Post by Wood~Ant on May 11, 2019 15:54:33 GMT
I found that when my Camponotus mitis colony was small, they were very picky eaters. Have you tried them on fruit flies or mosquitoes? Mine would actually take those into the nest, even if they only nibbled or licked at them. Even now that my colony has about 90 workers, they have days when they won't accept insects at all (But almost always accept sugar water). When your colony has larvae they should definitely become more interested though. I wonder if they'd be interested in fruit at all? I haven't tried that. No I haven't tried that, but I don't know if they are coming out to forage at all. They seem happy and healthy enough, so maybe they are taking honey water. I will try very small flies perhaps and hopefully if I can drop it into the nest entrance hole, then the workers might collect the food.
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Post by TenebrousNova on May 28, 2019 17:01:02 GMT
Is that a major cocoon that I see on the chilensis brood pile? As for the xiangban, both shane and myself had bare pupae form in our young colonies that were quickly eaten. It should just be a small setback though, since the brood in your colony is clearly doing well.
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Post by Wood~Ant on May 28, 2019 18:15:59 GMT
Is that a major cocoon that I see on the chilensis brood pile? As for the xiangban, both shane and myself had bare pupae form in our young colonies that were quickly eaten. It should just be a small setback though, since the brood in your colony is clearly doing well. Yes it does look like the cocoon is a major, and a second cocooned pupa might be as it's bigger than the others. I think worker 8 is due to be born very soon as her cocoon is showing the dark form of the ant inside.
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Post by TenebrousNova on Jul 8, 2019 15:03:28 GMT
Lovely to see the xiangban colony picking up.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Jul 8, 2019 16:43:06 GMT
Lovely to see the xiangban colony picking up. After having just 10 workers for the past year 18 makes this colony look quite big now.
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Post by TenebrousNova on Sept 7, 2019 14:38:34 GMT
How many workers do the xiangban have now? Looks like they're doing great.
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