Ant delivery to Paris

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Ant delivery to Paris

Post by Acromyrmexbob » Thu May 17, 2018 9:52 pm

Flew to Creitel University in Paris today to deliver 2 Atta colonies and 2 Acromyrmex colonies.
Juliette, the researcher there, was fantastic and we worked together setting the housing up for them.
Took some pics of the room the ants are held in.

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The setup is a darkened nest tank with a tube leading to a foraging tank (a plastic tank on end with Fluon to prevent escape) and a small dump chamber.

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This is Juliette working with ne of the setups

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The black tank is the nest tank.

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Re: Ant delivery to Paris

Post by Andyj » Thu May 17, 2018 10:09 pm

Are these all going to be on display or studied?

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Re: Ant delivery to Paris

Post by Acromyrmexbob » Fri May 18, 2018 10:15 am

Studied. Juliette works every second month in Guadeloupe on Acros in the field. This will be their lab based source of ants for the work they are doing.

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Re: Ant delivery to Paris

Post by Jackie62 » Fri May 18, 2018 11:16 am

Acromyrmexbob wrote:Studied. Juliette works every second month in Guadeloupe on Acros in the field. This will be their lab based source of ants for the work they are doing.
I would love a job like that.....have been wondering about a PhD on leaf cutters....hmmmm...would be fully financed by my university.

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