Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal
On June 5th 2013 I found two Pogonomyrmex californicus alates wondering around just outside one of the nests I had been watching for the past week. I caught both of them and put them in regular test...
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Updated 7-19-2013)
dspdrew wrote:Here's the video of the worker carrying the queen back into the nest:I should carry my queen ant too.
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Updated 7-19-2013)
Not an update, but I moved my webcam from my Camponotus nest to my best, most active and alive P. californicus nest. If anyone wants to, you can view it at http://antcam.gyg.cc:880. It's always live,...
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Updated 7-19-2013)
dspdrew wrote:Not an update, but I moved my webcam from my Camponotus nest to my best, most active and alive P. californicus nest. If anyone wants to, you can view it at http://antcam.gyg.cc:880. It's...
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Updated 7-19-2013)
Very cool, watched them for a while, someone was camping out in the water tube.
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Updated 7-19-2013)
parastatic wrote:Very cool, watched them for a while, someone was camping out in the water tube.How funny, you must have caught the 30 minutes of light while I got ready for work. I noticed they were...
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Updated 7-19-2013)
Sorry about the deaths! I hope you weren't to attached. Since you told me they have a survival rate in the wild of about 3% I'd say you are doing very well. Keep up the good work and updates!
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Updated 7-28-2013)
dspdrew wrote:Update:Queens in test tubes:Nothing has changed much with these, except the larvae have all grown quite a bit, and are probably a week away from pupating. I have noticed that all the...
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Updated 7-28-2013)
UpdateQueens in test tubes:At this point I don't think any of them have brood anymore. One of them had some developing brood, but i don't know what happened with that.Queens in jars:One of the queens...
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Updated 7-28-2013)
dspdrew wrote: Here's some pictures of the new nanitic worker. This test tube it's sitting in is actually a very small one, measuring only about 10mm, so you can see how tiny this worker is. Â I am...
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Updated 7-28-2013)
Congrats! I knew you had nanitics. ;}
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Updated 7-28-2013)
Update:I still have only seen the one nanitic so far. Also, all of the queens in the test tubes are still without any brood, and one of them died recently, leaving only three in the test tubes now.I...
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Updated 7-28-2013)
I thought you nanitic was pretty tiny. And then my Tetramorium queen had nanitics the size of her abdomen.
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Updated 7-28-2013)
Cyclops wrote:I thought you nanitic was pretty tiny. And then my Tetramorium queen had nanitics the size of her abdomen.Oh well yeah, it's not a large difference compared to some other species.
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Updated 9-8-2013)
Update 9-8-2013First of all I could have sworn I had another update on here that seems to be missing, so I have no idea what happened there. Anyways, I no longer have any colonies living in test...
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Updated 9-30-2013)
Update 9-30-2013All five colonies seem to be doing okay, but also seem to be slowly shrinking. Just the other day I decided to wet down the nests again, and this time I used the flower pot saucer with...
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Updated 11-23-2013)
Update 11-23-2013 I decided I would still do major updates on my journals every once and a while here.I only have two of these colonies left now. Both of them have been moved back into test tubes,...
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Discontinued)
Update 9-18-2014These all died back in 3-23-2014.
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Discontinued)
dspdrew wrote:Update 9-18-2014These all died back in 3-23-2014.Wow. What happened?
View ArticleRe: Dspdrew's Pogonomyrmex californicus journal (Discontinued)
They just slowly died one by one. I never liked this variety of the species much anyways. Now I have the much more interesting desert bicolor P. californicus.
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