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Ant loving Crickets... sounds cool. Will probably give the ants that tower back once they leave their old test tube.

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...

I just found this queen ant today and would like some help trying to figure out what species it is.
Ant Queen

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...

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?

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 ...

Ya, they were cool, how tiny black and pharaoh ants kill them... Idk.
Also the queen now as 3 eggs, YAY!!!

Well, Great news! The queen has a egg

ZantKeeper wrote: ↑

Sun May 06, 2018 12:43 am

Thanks 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?

Around 10 to 15 workers

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...