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- Fri Feb 28, 2020 7:50 pm
- Forum: Temporary Placeholder
- Topic: Tiny bugs with my Camponotus pennsylvanicus colony
- Replies: 3
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Re: Tiny bugs with my Camponotus pennsylvanicus colony
Ant loving Crickets... sounds cool. Will probably give the ants that tower back once they leave their old test tube.
- Fri Feb 14, 2020 9:28 pm
- Forum: Temporary Placeholder
- Topic: Tiny bugs with my Camponotus pennsylvanicus colony
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4279
Tiny bugs with my Camponotus pennsylvanicus colony
So, I was moving my small colony of Camponotus pennsylvanicus ants (1 queen, 7 workers, bunch of eggs with some large larva) from a rather... big set up (2 Ant Towers, 1 using the sand provided, and one with soil, connected with a fresh thing of water Im trying to move them into.) and I got their ma...
- Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:28 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: Ant queen identification
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1349
Ant queen identification
I just found this queen ant today and would like some help trying to figure out what species it is.
Ant Queen
Ant Queen
- Sat Jul 28, 2018 7:30 pm
- Forum: Ant Journals, Videos, and Blogs
- Topic: The Journal of 2 Queens
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3434
The Journal of 2 Queens
This journal is for my 2 fertile queen ants that i have named (their colonies to be). the first one i called is "The Carpenters" and the species for them is Camponotus pennsylvanicus. The second one is in honor of my friend, he can't have a ant queen and it is orange so i called them the "Orange Emb...
- Wed May 30, 2018 7:40 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: Found a (Actual) queen + Ant Journal
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5490
Re: Found a (Actual) queen + Ant Journal
been a bit since i posted. I check on my ant queen every monday now and she has a nice amount of eggs (Too many to count plus queen keeps getting in way) and when do eggs normally hatch?
- Tue May 08, 2018 4:43 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: Found a (Actual) queen + Ant Journal
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5490
Re: Found a (Actual) queen + Ant Journal
Ya, they were cool, how tiny black and pharaoh ants kill them... Idk. Also the queen now as 3 eggs, YAY!!! :D Don't check up on her as often as you seem to be. I used to, and my new queens are developing a lot faster than those ones. Most experienced ant keepers would probably recommend once every ...
- Mon May 07, 2018 8:13 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: Found a (Actual) queen + Ant Journal
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5490
Re: Found a (Actual) queen + Ant Journal
Ya, they were cool, how tiny black and pharaoh ants kill them... Idk.
Also the queen now as 3 eggs, YAY!!!
Also the queen now as 3 eggs, YAY!!!
- Sun May 06, 2018 1:08 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: Found a (Actual) queen + Ant Journal
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5490
Re: Found a (Actual) queen + Ant Journal
Well, Great news! The queen has a egg
- Sun May 06, 2018 8:03 am
- Forum: Ant Diet & Nutrition
- Topic: Feeding new colony.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11761
Re: Feeding new colony.
Around 10 to 15 workersZantKeeper wrote: ↑Sun May 06, 2018 12:43 amThanks for the replies. Thus far my ants haven't tried to eat any of the food provided, there is roughly 10 workers and a large pile of brood. How many workers do you need for them to start needing food?
- Thu May 03, 2018 6:47 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: Found a (Actual) queen + Ant Journal
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5490
Re: Found a (Actual) queen + Ant Journal
Well thanks everyone, but I released the one i thought was a queen (looked more like a drone... or a really weird looking bee/wasp) in the previous post but today I was bringing up a Trash bin when I saw this huge ant come running across the ground (might have almost squished her) but i caught it wi...