Some assorted baby Atta cones (we are all very sad!!)

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Some assorted baby Atta cones (we are all very sad!!)

Post by Acromyrmexbob » Tue Dec 29, 2015 4:06 pm

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Post by Deansie26 » Tue Dec 29, 2015 6:09 pm

Great photos, are they pretty easy to find colonys when then they look like this?

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Post by Acromyrmexbob » Tue Dec 29, 2015 8:21 pm

Depends on the area, how dense the bush is and lots of other things. Over the years I have gotten quite good at it.

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Post by fourmis 91 » Wed Dec 30, 2015 2:46 pm

Do you collect only Atta cephalotes, no other Atta like Atta sexdens or Atta laevigata?

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Post by Acromyrmexbob » Wed Dec 30, 2015 9:43 pm

Trinidad only has Atta cephalotes and Acromyrmex octospinosus. However in may\ June I am going to South America, looking like Paraguay just now, and there are 22 species of Acromyrmex and 5 of Atta there!

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Post by Formica123 » Wed Dec 30, 2015 10:05 pm

Andrew, will it be possible to get some Acromyrmex crassispinius?


And loving the little cones!!!!
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Post by Atta solider » Tue Jan 19, 2016 11:48 am

If I had money I love have try a small colony of atta ones that cut the grasses as it be cool see the fungus

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