Concerns about colony collection
I've noticed a very many members, recently, are taking to digging/chopping their way to owning a colony. I've only been with this forum for one year, so I don't know if this is an annual trend that...
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Mealtaker wrote:batspiderfish wrote:Depending on what is taken, the species will be unaffected or absent from that location for years. Not all ants are the same.That makes sense to me. I have noticed...
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Mordam - I'm all for it if you want to perfect collection techniques for those who need them; my concern is simply when/where it's being done, who is doing it, and why. I feel that somebody who is...
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batspiderfish wrote: Mealtaker wrote: batspiderfish wrote: Depending on what is taken, the species will be unaffected or absent from that location for years. Not all ants are the same.That makes sense...
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mordam wrote:I have never seen an alate in one of the nests either come to think of it. From what I was told by someone I trust to know, the queen is more indistinguishable from the workers to the...
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This thread is very interesting. I thought that collecting mature colony was normal on this forum, because there is a how-to somewhere.FYI, here in France, collecting colonies or brood is banned from...
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I gotta agree whole-heartily with batspiderfish and mordam. I don't think its a good idea to take a whole colony mostly because your success rate is ridiculously small. Besides that, to me, the best...
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Well, I agree with the point that collecting entire colonies should be avoided because in most cases, only mature colonies are able to produce winged alates for the continued survival of the species....
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Okay I would like to take back where I originally stated that I would try to tackle a Pheildole colony of any size(mature/young). Everything that I say I mean with common sense attached. If I go on...
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Should non-native ants have the same protection as native ants if they are non-invasive? If I said there was a certain kind of "green ants" inhabiting an area near a port, should they be kept secret...
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A photograph would help us determine whether the nest should be removed from the wild or left alone. I don't think anybody is going to steal it.
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blueball1st wrote:Rhytidoponera or Weaver ants?Oecophylla smaragdina.
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Granted, invasive ants are sometimes good. Take the Solenopsis invicta colony (two of them) that used to be near where I live. One colony had tons of native ants living around them (Honeypot ants,...
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It is invasive because it is effecting the surrounding areas in a negative way. In that instance, they may have been helping but think of what all the alates from the colony were doing to other...
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Just place a flat rock on the nest and in a few weeks they might make their nest under it. I have captured several formica colonies this way.
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Pachycondyla chinensis invasion, eh? That's a bit of a surprise because ponerines are almost never known to be dominant species. I wonder how they did it in the US?
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http://www4.ncsu.edu/~bsg...%20chinensis%20page.htmlUnfortunately a new invasive ant is spreading and people will have to learn how to recognize and handle it. Its scientific name is Pachycondyla...
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From talking to a few scientists about it, the comments are that Pachyondylo chinensis are doing it with sheer numbers and also the fact that they can nest in almost any medium. Fortunately during my...
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Before I heard about this I thought that Pachycondyla didn't have any species that had large colonies.
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