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Parasitic Lasius Queens are on the move today for anyone looking to keep that species in West PA

Today I captured my first Black Carpenter Ant Queen, lots of males on the ground but only the one Queen so far, she caught me by surprise!

I used Windex on one of my glass formicariums and it resulted like this. Took workers a few days to die. You may have mites in Solenopsis. Did you see any? Remove any dead bodies as it might also be a pathogen that came from somewhere I just changed swapped out their old enclosures with new ones, b...

Hey all, I have an urgent cross species problem I can’t figure out. One carpenter ant colony and 2 solenopsis colonies are going through a long drawn out death event(?) Several or all the workers in these colonies are going through what I thought were death throws: uncoordinated, stumbling, falling...

Hey all, I have an urgent cross species problem I can’t figure out. One carpenter ant colony and 2 solenopsis colonies are going through a long drawn out death event(?) Several or all the workers in these colonies are going through what I thought were death throws: uncoordinated, stumbling, falling...

Hey all, I have an urgent cross species problem I can’t figure out. One carpenter ant colony and 2 solenopsis colonies are going through a long drawn out death event(?) Several or all the workers in these colonies are going through what I thought were death throws: uncoordinated, stumbling, falling ...

Big Brachymyrmex depilis flight today, seen several queens and dozens of males.

I've had experience bringing a subscericea queen back from losing her first workers. Test tube flooded in the night and she was the only one who survived. She's now a proud mother of 30+ ants. This is a bit of a long-shot hypothesis on my end, but the queen might have stopped laying, not because she...

From all the info I've gleaned from AntsCanada and other sources, it seems like many (but not all) ants take in food that's in a liquid state, like how they drink the fluids of crushed insects. But I've seen the AntsCanada video where he feeds a hardboiled egg to a colony, and they immediately start...

Ant 1 is Myrmica. Ant 2 took some time but I think it's parasitic Formica. It looks like myrmica ants are polygenous, so do I need to catch another new queen and put them together? Or can she start out on her own? I'm not sure if she can integrate with my other colony or if myrmica adopt foreign qu...