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- Mon Aug 06, 2018 5:59 pm
- Forum: Formicariums and Ant Setups
- Topic: Camponotus colony housing
- Replies: 2
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Camponotus colony housing
Hello this is my camponotus Pen. colony in a tarheel ants hearth founding formicarum so far this little habitat has been great as it has the nest area and outworld close to one another and the ants have even made clean up easy by putting all their trash in the corner of the out world :) smart girls!...
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 2:22 pm
- Forum: Temporary Placeholder
- Topic: Food for ants
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1791
Re: Food for ants
Thank you I plan to treat my canponptus workers with some watermelon when they reach 10 workers I'll have to find a close pet store as my area doesn't have one
- Mon Jul 30, 2018 8:50 pm
- Forum: Temporary Placeholder
- Topic: Food for ants
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1791
Food for ants
Hello so my ant colonies are really taking off now my campo queens has 8 workers now and tons of brood my tetra queen has around 5-7 workers and my Formica has a lot of brood with no workers unfortunately my other colonies except for the wild caught one have died :cry: anyway so far the colonies mai...
- Sat Jun 30, 2018 8:43 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: 2 queens need IDs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1779
Re: 2 queens need IDs
Dorymyrmex bureni and Formica sp. F. subsericea is a good guess, but we would have to see how long her antennal scapes (the first, long segment of her antennae) are in comparison to the length of her head above the mandibles. Thank you is the dorymyrmex fully claustral and is there anything special...
- Sat Jun 30, 2018 2:10 pm
- Forum: Temporary Placeholder
- Topic: New ant hobbyist
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3908
Re: New ant hobbyist
Ohhh man ok got an update for you. I hope you get a kick out of my enthusiasm, this is very exciting for me! Ok so I went to the dollar store and bought these plastic vials they had which would work great for queens. I brought it home and tried to poke my queen to make her go in the tube. She was v...
- Sat Jun 30, 2018 2:05 pm
- Forum: Temporary Placeholder
- Topic: Snap cap vials
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1794
Re: Snap cap vials
Guys do you think that my queen ants will get intoxicated if i use vials that have been used to store ink in? Please need help as The Dollar Store (where the best snap cap vials exist) doesn't have any stores in my country(ies). I live in Sweden And France. :?: :? I don't think so as long as you cl...
- Sat Jun 30, 2018 1:59 pm
- Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
- Topic: Brachyponera chinesis Anyone kept them before?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2245
Re: Brachyponera chinesis Anyone kept them before?
I must say thank you for this I saw that your in nc and me being curious looked up that species and low and behold its a ant that ive found around my house for awhile now but had no idea what they were I always thought they looked cool with their super sleek body
- Sat Jun 30, 2018 1:53 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: 2 queens need IDs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1779
2 queens need IDs
Hello I was lucky enough to catch two queens today but I need help identifying them. this is the first queen she is small I'm not sure the length just roughly the length of my fingernail https://i.imgur.com/068UKOn.jpg https://i.imgur.com/5OptTWs.jpg now the other queen I believe she is formica subs...
- Sat Jun 30, 2018 1:42 pm
- Forum: General Ant Talk
- Topic: general talk about our colonies
- Replies: 39
- Views: 28301
Re: general talk about our colonies
my camponotus queen has her first workers and I'm super happy my solenopsis and tetramorium are beginning to lay more and more eggs and my wild caught pheidole colony have moved into a testube in their set up they have tons of brood and ants my lasius queen died and so did my formica however good ne...
- Fri Jun 22, 2018 4:09 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: Ant specice ID needed
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8234
Re: Ant specice ID needed
Ill try to I'm not sure if ill be able to because I have been using my phoneBatspiderfish wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 2:33 pmIs there any way to turn off noise-reduction on your camera?