TheRealAntMan Slave-Making ant journal
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TheRealAntMan Slave-Making ant journal
Found this little girl running around Formica Fusca next. It took me a moment to realize that it was a Polyergus Queen. I’m not sure if it’s Polyergus Lucidus or Polyergus Breviceps. The measurements are 10 mm. I also put Formica Pallidefulva brood inside with her.
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I don't think Polyergus is capable of caring for brood at all -- you might want to introduce adult workers or callows. It will be a pretty boring and inconvenient species to keep in the future, although I guess they look pretty cool.
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Re: TheRealAntMan Slave-Making ant journal
That’s true. I want to see how far I can get to raising them. I once saw an ant keeper raise them to 50+ plus workers before they of mites brought in by other ants.Batspiderfish wrote: ↑Sun Aug 05, 2018 3:58 pmI don't think Polyergus is capable of caring for brood at all -- you might want to introduce adult workers or callows. It will be a pretty boring and inconvenient species to keep in the future, although I guess they look pretty cool.
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I decided to just release here, as there was reall no point in wasting time and and energy on a colony that might not survive long.
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Re: TheRealAntMan Slave-Making ant journal
Too bad. But do you realize that you are the first person that I have seen on this forum that has captured a Polyergus queen? That means you're one of the first people to capture a Polyergus queen.
"God made every kind of wild beasts and every kind of livestock and every kind of creeping things;" (including ants) "and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:25
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Yep, I had realized that to but I could hardly find any information on successfully raising a mature colony. So I had decided to release where she would have the best chance.
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Plus its not the first time I had seen these queens in my area. I could do more research and catch another one next year.
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