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by MadVampy
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...
by MadVampy
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
by MadVampy
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...
by MadVampy
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!

Camponotus wrote:I have had queens do this aswell. Why o you think they pull at the cotton?
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.
by MadVampy
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...
by MadVampy
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).

by MadVampy
Sat Aug 29, 2015 4:14 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Caste System
Replies: 2
Views: 1933

Re: Caste System

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.
Here ya go, a lot of info on the life and what goes on in the any colony's.

by MadVampy
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...
by MadVampy
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?
by MadVampy
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...