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Formicidae

Honeypot Ant

Myrmecocystus mexicanus

Photograph: Jonghyun Park · CC BY

Photographed by an observer on iNaturalist and published under a Creative Commons licence; the photographer and the licence are named under the image. It is not an animal of ours, and no animal was handled by us to produce it.

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Temperature24–28 °C
Humidity35–50 %

The numbers

Temperature

152025303540 °C
24–28°Ambient

One ambient band, 24–28°C. This sheet states no warm side, no cool side and no night figure, so none are shown. Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.

The sheet statesnest 24-28 °C / arena 26-32 °C

Humidity

35–50%Target RH

The sheet statesnest 35-50% / arena 20-40%

Enclosure
Claustral founding in a test tube; then a dry acrylic or Ytong nest with ceiling clearance for repletes and a separate warm arena
Diet
Sugar water or nectar plus crickets and flies for brood protein

Identity

Origin

Enclosure and conditions

What your climate adds

This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.

What it needs

A thermometerbecause temp — nest 24-28 °C / arena 26-32 °C
A hygrometerbecause humidity — nest 35-50% / arena 20-40%
Not stated: The size of the enclosurethis sheet describes the enclosure without a figure: « Claustral founding in a test tube; then a dry acrylic or Ytong nest with ceiling »

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation. What the sheet does not state is listed too, rather than left out: a kit that looks complete is worse than one that names its gap.

Sources

antontop.com — lu le undefined

Others in this group

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What this sheet states

77%
TemperatureHumidityEnclosure sizeActivityOriginDietSourcesUVB

This sheet states 5 of 7 of the fields this product runs on. What is missing turns something off: day/night engine and awake count on the globe, the diet section. We show the gap rather than fill it with a plausible number.

UVB is measured but does not count: it is absent from 421 of 678 sheets, and on most of them that is not a gap, since a nocturnal snake's sheet has no reason to state a UV index. Counting it would call the library incomplete without cause.