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Awesome, you should join our TN ant group on Slack. If you are interested, message me yiur email. We have a couple that are in middle TN as well.

Getting things ready for the new season of queen hunting XD...i am not completely sure if I wanna go for a P. impairis (sure i misspelled that lol) but if amyome does see any be sure to post! Looking forward to another great year of antkeeping...

That's why I chose to put all mine in the bottom part of the fridge lol...just to be safe. Plus, it stays around 46°F towards the bottom. All seems to be going well so far and they been in for 3 weeks so far.

I have talked to many others already on different forums and it get a lot colder here...been told it should work just fine and I've had others tell me they use the same process for hibernation..

The queens are together in a test tube tho. You could always try it out, my two queen colony's testube got flooded somewhere in the founding stage and I thought they were dead but it turns out they weren't but threw them away. So I don't know what would have hapenned in that situation. I did the sa...

Its good to put them into hibernation when you stop seeing your local ants out and about. Just a general rule...and take them out when you start seeing ants again.

Ok, so I am seeing a lot of posts about hibernation lol and here is another. So I don't have a basement, nor a garage or attic...so I have purchased me a decent size mini fridge. I have been reading up on all the information but I know for a fact there are experienced ant keepers n this forum that h...

My Camponotus and Formica both have done what you have described. I am in the process of getting my colonies into hibernation but it seems my Tetramorium and Crematogasater are still doing their thing....but to you question, id say yes, it is that time and certainly sounds like they know it too lol....

Cant wait to see it!!! Sounds like you have a plan so run with it. I have a Crematogaster ashmeadi colony that originally was just the queen and id say around 50 workers (i saved them from being killed) and now they have probabyly reached the 200-300 mark id say and the queen is still producing eggs...

Curious to know if there are any products available in this "area"?