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- Sun Aug 30, 2015 9:20 am
- Forum: Nuptial Flight Schedules and Sightings
- Topic: Lasius neoniger
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3154
Re: Lasius neoniger
Yes it's not uncommon for them to find a high point to start their flight from. I've seen them up tree's, on the sides of houses and buildings and even saw a car that was parked next to a Solenopsis mound covered in them. Kinda like hang gliders that want a high point to start off with to get better...
- Sun Aug 30, 2015 9:17 am
- Forum: Temporary Placeholder
- Topic: Looking for a Queen Ant near Montreal.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1332
Re: Looking for a Queen Ant near Montreal.
Check out the GAN Project page at the main AntsCanada website. You can also contact Mikey to see if there is any new Farmers in that area.
http://AntsCanada.com/live-queens-for-sale
http://AntsCanada.com/live-queens-for-sale
- Sun Aug 30, 2015 2:25 am
- Forum: Ant Journals, Videos, and Blogs
- Topic: What the heck!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6045
Re: What the heck!
Well couldn't sleep so I checked on the queens and watched two of them lay eggs and another tend to her brood (1 and 3 laid eggs and I saw them do the typical tuck their abdomen under and take the egg and move it to the stack already there. 2 was re-stacking the eggs, cleaning them I think). 4 I'm n...
- Sun Aug 30, 2015 2:16 am
- Forum: Ant Journals, Videos, and Blogs
- Topic: What the heck!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6045
Re: What the heck!
Really not sure, I think maybe they are just making the place the way they want it or maybe adjusting the humidity by exposing more of the wet cotton.Camponotus wrote:I have had queens do this aswell. Why o you think they pull at the cotton?
- Sat Aug 29, 2015 4:54 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: color ants?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3296
Re: color ants?
Thats still up in the air about the glow in the dark food coloring, I do know that most any liquid with vitamin B will show up under black light. Well I haven't tried it my self but a friend who has says it works. Also the ingredient to make glowing food (mostly drinks and other water based foods) i...
- Sat Aug 29, 2015 8:44 am
- Forum: Myrmecology, Laboratory/Field Work, Publications, Documentaries
- Topic: Ants make sounds
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5159
Re: Ants make sounds
Yea they do make sounds. There is a video documentary on Youtube about a full colony of leaf cutter ants that were brought into a lab to research it. They buried a ant and she called out for help (a distress call).
- Sat Aug 29, 2015 4:14 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Caste System
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1933
Re: Caste System
Here ya go, a lot of info on the life and what goes on in the any colony's.New2Ants wrote:Hey guys. I was wondering how do ants determine the job of an ant. Do they do this while the ant is still just a larvae? thanks.
- Sat Aug 29, 2015 4:07 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: color ants?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3296
Re: color ants?
is it safe for them tho? what kind of dye do people use? i saw that some universities paint their ants to tell them apart.. is this a practice anyone else has tried? i can't see them loving it.. but if i'm wrong it would be cool to do! Regular food safe dyes are fine. You know the kind you add to f...
- Fri Aug 28, 2015 9:50 pm
- Forum: Nuptial Flight Schedules and Sightings
- Topic: Ants flying in Sydney, Australia
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2470
Re: Ants flying in Sydney, Australia
Generly the only time you see flying ants is a nuptial flight. Did it rain prior?
- Fri Aug 28, 2015 6:45 pm
- Forum: Ant Journals, Videos, and Blogs
- Topic: What the heck!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6045
What the heck!
Ok so I guess I'll start a Journal myself. Let me predate this to the effect that the Solenopsis queens I caught about a week and a half ago (almost 2 weeks ago) and put in a tubes: http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u266/vampyrdemon/Ants/20150818_193632.jpg One died 2 days in the tube and as of tod...