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In part, thanks to me. I've talked about them before in various thread, but here is an update on them. Most of you know that around my apartments (apart from way down the hill on the other side of...
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June-10-10 3:10 PM Big news today. The Tapinoma sessile now have at least one satellite nest on the mainland. I see lots of ants going to the mainland, with a few carrying small batches of eggs to...
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Oh, as long as there's a water source nearby, the Argentine ants are going to just reload. Thanks for the updates!
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Well, in the area the T.sessile are in, there isn't actually that many Argentine ants. The biggest portion of the Argentine ants are more on the outside of the apartment complex. Everything inside has...
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June-14-10 8:14 AM Lots of T.sessile moving to the mainland. Every 2-3 ants was carrying brood of some type to their new colony. There doesn't appear to be nearly as many ants in the Project Area...
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June-24-10 4:47 PM Came back on Monday (June-21-10) and saw that the Tapinoma sessile had again moved their main nest, this time closer to the middle of the apartment block. Only by a few feet though....
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June-25-10 6:38 PM The Argentine ants have again upped their assault on the Tapinoma sessile. This time, they are attacking their main nest. So far, I have seen very few if any dead T.sessile (think...
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I should add...the area the main attacks from the Argentine ants are coming from...there doesn't appear to be nearly as many ants as in the Tapinoma sessile colony. There is a bunch of plants and...
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June-26-10 9:17 AM Well, the Tapinoma sessile are again moving nests. Though the T.sessile obviously outnumber the Argentine ants by quite a bit...they are like huge pushovers when it comes to...
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June-29-10 2:02 PM Quite a bit has happened with the Tapinoma sessile. Though, I'll save the update for them for later today or later this week. I think today I'll mainly focus on... What this update...
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July-09-10 5:32 PM The Tapinoma sessile have secured an area to nest in. They lost quite a bit of territory since they first settled in the area...but are now pretty much fine. They even regained some...
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A picture would be nice to show everybody what the area looks like. Nice journal BTW.
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Pictures will be coming, I can't promise when though. Whenever I go out again to check on them, I'll bring my camera. So it could be tomorrow, or a week or two. July-16-10 7:32 PM Big news for...
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July-24-10 12:29 PM I will be doing very little updates on the Tapinoma sessile. Please read the second post on the first page, as it explains why (sort of). I will now be focused on updating the...
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March-06-11 3:10 PM Well, going back to the Tapinoma sessile colony...as the S.invicta were wiped out by Argentine ants. The T.sessile appear to have started coming out of hibernation. In the plant...
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April-05-11 1:42 PM Sadly, it appears the Tapinoma sessile colony is dead. I'm going back later this evening, but it appears they didn't make it. The apartments put down a bunch of new bark, that has...
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April-06-11 11:18 AM There probably won't be too many updates the next few days. There is supposed to be a lot of rain coming. I went out this morning, but all the ants were barely active. It was...
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April-10-11 11:22 AM Well, some good news. I found (last night) a new Pheidole hyatti colony! I guess there was a colony that started from last year. They are nesting very close by the Monomorium...
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So, I have surprising news. The Tapinoma sessile had 1 million ants in the colony, it was huge. Last year, they spread to the main area of the apartments...as the colony was (and still is) in a small...
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Do you ever purposely feed the ants, Vendayn? It seems to me that boosting them with at least honey would be beneficial?
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