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Hello, I caught 6 queens a few days ago and they already have 50+ eggs. The colony is gonna grow really fast and I was just wondering if any of you have any tips for keeping Pheidole that live in temperate regions in cali. Any advice helps, Thanks.

found 6 pheidole spp. within two days yesterday. It seems they fly on just one to two days.

First off, you're gonna need to post a picture, the best way is to post a url. Also queens may pull at the cotton for the first few days, just make sure the cotton is on tight and put her test tube in a dark place that doesn't experience vibration.

Thank you so much! Is this species fully claustal? yeah it is. you can tell if a species is claustral or not from the gaster/head. Claustral species have large gasters and small heads because all they do is sit in a hole, while semi claustral species have smaller gasters and bigger heads with mean ...

im pretty sure the queen is prenelopis emperous(i dont know how to spell) or the winter ant. I had one a long time ago, looks exactly like it.

That is definetly a queen. I am not an expert but im pretty sure thats pheidole sp. I live in California too and I caught some yesterday.

Hello fellow ant enthusiasts. I have caught 6 pheidole queens and I wanted to know if I can house them together. I already know they are polygnous but I was just wondering if there was a limit for how many queens you can house together because six is a lot. also here's a pic of one of them: http://m...

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Tue May 26, 2020 4:17 pm

pheidole spp.

thanks!

for the past two days, I've captured queens that I'm not sure of the species. I live in bay area(san fransisco) in contra costa county. I've caught quite a few queens like the one i have in the image and I was wondering what species they are. They have shiny thorax's and gaster's but their head's ar...