Experience with Pheidole pallidula

Beitragvon JimmyVe » 22. Mai 2007 20:27

Well Alan, if you have a male for me so i can get them together you can have here. ;)

I think there is probably a very short live for here a head. If the workers don't kill here and she flies out, i need to kill here :( if not i hope she just keep on working in the nest like other workers.
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Beitragvon sithmaster676 » 22. Mai 2007 21:08

normally if the queens don't fly out of the nests due to the wrong conditions they stay in the nest underground and work just like a normal worker but with a longer life span
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Beitragvon Skippy » 22. Mai 2007 21:12

Yes it is true ,I had 2 years ago Formica sanguinea big colony and they had young queens. Queens didn´t want to fly out and they stay in nest. Worker cut them all wings and they will to be normal workers. They came for food ,cleaning nest - doing normal work like workers.

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Beitragvon sithmaster676 » 22. Mai 2007 21:22

yeah if they cant make there own colony join your mums lol
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Beitragvon Skippy » 22. Mai 2007 21:27

"join your mums" lol ,I don´t understant
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Beitragvon JimmyVe » 22. Mai 2007 21:58

what sith means if they can not move out to make there one colony they will stay with there colony (from there mother) ;)

a bit like some humans do. ;)
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Beitragvon sithmaster676 » 23. Mai 2007 07:17

yeah sorry i didn't write it so clearly :)
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Beitragvon Skippy » 23. Mai 2007 15:22

Thanks ,now I understand what you wrote sith ;) . Yes ,they stay in the nest and after that ,I couldn´t to research ,which of females is an original queen (the cca number of queens:100) :(

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Beitragvon JimmyVe » 30. Jul 2007 21:02

30/06/2007
A little update on this colony.

They are now (about) a 500 workers strong with a 50 soldiers, they are doing really great. After i saw the queen pupa nothing happened, just there daily routine. But that is nice to watch to. ;)
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Beitragvon sithmaster676 » 30. Jul 2007 22:24

this colony sounds great jimmy im glad there doing well, i was wondering how much experience would i need to keep this species and how difficult are they to keep.
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Beitragvon JimmyVe » 31. Jul 2007 18:44

In my opinion, if you can successful keep a Lasius niger species and you have them for about 2 years, you can keep these also. ;)
But like i said before, they are masters in escaping and they do need a good humidity and a good temperature.

I keep this colony in a sand nest, i give it water 2 a week to keep the nest moist, i have a heating lamp above the farm, in summer it is about 25-30°c and in winter about 10°c. They only have a small hibernation period (about 2-3 moths) and they have very strong jaws, chew through y-tong.

(if you have more questions just ask. ;))
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Beitragvon sithmaster676 » 1. Aug 2007 10:18

ok thanks for the great help as usual jimmy :)
so would sand be the best to keep them in if there jaws are so strong?
and what size nest do you keep your colony in ?
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Beitragvon JimmyVe » 2. Aug 2007 22:17

My pleasure ;)

I'm not saying it is the best way to keep them, but maybe the easiest way. ;)
If you keep them in a glass nest with sand/loam mix, you don't need to be worried they could dig out.

I keep them in a farm: 70*50*15 this is filed with sand/loam mix: 70*35*15.
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Beitragvon sithmaster676 » 5. Aug 2007 11:51

ok thanks again jimmy
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Beitragvon JimmyVe » 5. Aug 2007 13:00

No problem, did you already ordered your ants ?
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