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Re:(TFT) Hymenopteran Version
Let me try again B^)
Man I hate when that happens!
Nice stuff will have to use it to establish breeding rate for the
colony.
David did any of your research tell you when the hive will begin
to attempt to establish new colonies?
I know with fire ants it begins usually in early to mid spring
after several warm days and a moderate to heavy rain. Ive seen
matchbox size mounds(don't know if they were super colonys though)
putting out drones and queens by the hundreds and a very large
mound is really incredible to watch. On several occasions last
year the basket in our pool filter would be 2-3 inches deep in
fire ant carcasses after a day or two of mating flights.
Robert Morger
Boerne, TX
rmorger@2ev1.net
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "David Michael Grouchy II"
<david_michael_grouchy_ii@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: tft@brainiac.com
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:20:13 -0600
>All,
> I've been filling out some lists of gestation rates for
various animals.
>I have some small data on hymenopterans. Including some of their
>reproductive rates, and time to maturity. Here is the dry, black
& white,
>unfinished work sheet for them.
>
> David Michael Grouchy II
>
>order: Hymenoptera
>
>ants
> pharaoh ant (monomorium pharaonis):
> Pharoaoh ants progress through the following stages
> 1) progress from eggs (5-6 days)
> 2) multiple larval stages (22-24 days)
> 3) pupal stage (9-12 days)
> 4) adult ants total 38-45 days to mature
>(+4-5 days for sexual maturity)
> females live up to 39 weeks and lay 400
eggs
> workers only live up to 10 weeks
> carpenter ant (camponotus pennsylvanicus):
> new queens bite off their own wings, burrow into
wet wood,
> and spend the rest of their life laying eggs (15-
25 years,
> laying 70,000 fertilized eggs) She lays 15-20
eggs the first year,
> up to 30 eggs the second. Larval stages take 60
days to maturity.
> Odorous house ant (Tapinoma sessile):
> Each female in the nest lays one egg a day,
development time
> (egg to adult is 34-83 days) Queens live several
years.
> pavement ant (tetramorium caespitum):
> queen produces 5-20 eggs per day.
> Three larval stages takes about 40 days.
> fire ant (wasmannia auropunctata):
> Queen lives 2-8 years. Egg to adult in 30 days.
Workers live 180 days.
> argentine ant (linepithema humile):
> Eggs are laid in summer, egg to adult in about
74 days
> theif ant (solenopsis molesta):
> Like to tunnel into nests of larger ants
> Queens lay an average of 105 eggs, egg to larvae
(16-28 days)
> larvae to mature (21 days)\
>
>wasps
> Symphyta: (sawfly, including some mimic wasps)
> firyflies (family mymeridae):
> the smallest of all 0.5mm
> yellow jackets ():
> nest in ground or papery structures in trees
> parasitica (parasitic wasp) (diapriidae cinetus,
cypripedium fasciculatum,
>diptera sciaridae):
> Eat other insects, lay eggs in body of victim
(basis of movie Alien).
> embryo to larvae in about 30 days.
> larvae mature in 40 days.
> after 5-6 days gnaw their way out of host.
> hornet (dolchovespula maculata):
> queen and 200-400 infertile female workers
> in late summer: males & reproductive females
> spider wasps (pompilidae cryptocheilus):
> trantula hawks (genus: pepsis):
> chalcid wasps (perilampus hyalinus):
> cuckoo wasp (chrysis coerulans):
> gall wasp (antistrophus rufus):
> potter wasps (vespidae abispa):
> sand wasp (sphecidae bembix, sphecidae sceliphron):
> velvet ants / cow killers (dsymutilla aureola pacifica):
> actually a wingless wasp, they look like an ant
with a fur coat.
>bees
> leafcutting bee (megachile rotundata):
> honey bee (apis mellifera, apis cerana, apis
koschevnikovi, apis florea,
> apis andreniformis, apis andreniformis, apis
dorsata, apis laboriosa):
> Queen can exceed 1500 eggs a day. Egg to adult:
for queen (16 days),
> worker (21 days), and drone (24 days).
> Queen lays eggs at intervals, producing colonies
of 60-80,000.
> Life span is 2-3 years for a queen. Drones die
after mating.
> digger bee (southeastern bluebery: habropoda laboriosa,
> pacific sand dune: habropoda miserabilis,
> pallid bee: centris pallida):
> mason bee (osmia lignaria, osmia cornuta, osmia
cornifrons, osmia
>ribifloris)):
> orchid bee (euglossa apidae, eulaema apidae, exaraete
apidae):
> sweat bee (dialictus zephrum, nomia melanderi):
> bumble bee (bombus terrestris):
> carpenter bee (xylocopa virginica, xylocopa pubescens,
xylocopa
>tabaniformis):
> egg to adult in 84-99 days
>
>
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