Post here for any notes or records of sightings in the wild. Behaviour, nuptial flights etc, everything about these ants from the Tropics!
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Deansie26
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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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Acromyrmexbob
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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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fourmis 91
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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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Acromyrmexbob
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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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Formica123
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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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Atta solider
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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