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Some species I hear can't see red as well such as lasius

Ants even in the summer will seal there test tubes with substrate to keep micro-winds out. If you are in a temperate zone you should be hibernating them anyway. The dirt should not be a problem unless they lock them selves from the outworld.

the queens eventually shed there wings and act as big workers and the males die. Just in case I would put a lid or something on since the rare occasion the might fly you don't have to worry about ants infesting your house

Have you found her? if not I think she's gone.

Tetremorium is quite common and easy to find and you can find them by just taking a 5 minute walk on the side walk during their flights and even find queens up to 2 weeks after! If you still can't find any try looking on you car in the morning where you can find hundreds of alates stuck to the car. ...

If the temperatures get below 0 Celsius you should look into camponotus if you can find them because they have anti-freeze in their Hemolyph (blood) that might help. Other that that I think that the garage would be the perfect place to keep ants.

wow that's like the most tragic ant disaster yet that Iv'e heard of.

I think your right. Just wait until your first nantics and then you'll know .

There is no selling ants on this forum unless it is through the GAN project. This is to promote native ant keeping to keep invasive species from spreading and for the better care of your ants.(don't worry it's in the rules, sorry) don't worry though Gin154 since all you need to do to find ants is lo...

how big is the colony ant # wise? If the colony is two small I would stop feeding them seeds for now and lower the humility a bit if you can