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Hi All I was planting baby onions in the garden and saw a big quine ant, I put the quine ant in a test tube. Back to the garden I noticed 15 feet from the onions, the compost pile had fire ants swarming out of it, Looks like Solenopsis Invicta. I then walked around the 3 acres and did not find other...

when i had a dry test tube, I went to a farm feed store, they will have syringes and long needles. used syringes and long needles to refill the water in test tube. when i had mold on the cotton in my teat tube. i used clear tubing that that fit over the test tube about 5 inches long and cut hole in ...

Hi All

on Tuesday Sept 6, the next day.
10 miles east, in Bastrop TX found queen next to the sidewalk curb,
2 days later I checked queen she had eggs.
Getting macro lens and will have pix

what ants swarm in September in central Texas?
beside fire ants

Bill

rained 3 inches Tuesday Sept 3 and 1/2 inch on Monday Sept 2.
no rain last night and today, sunshine. One fire and nest in log swarming and bunch in ground swarming, I am 12 miles east of central Austin Texas.
Bill

I cleaned up all the food, did not touch nest for 4 days.
then tried peanut butter and sugar water, the sugar water has small and temporary response.

Then in the afternoon found a Earwig (disambiguation) killed it. they loved it.
Bill

Spelling and grammar are not one of my skills, dyslexia. under the hot tub cover I found a small nest of Monomorium minimum (Little Black Ants) a week or so ago, with 200+ ants and a big bunch of eggs and queen. In the bottom of the big jar It took 2 days and on the third nesting spot they move to i...

do ants see infrared light?

Have IR camera with short throw lens.

Bill

Hi

I found test tubes at a local teacher supply store

Bill

I have dyslexia. Spelling and grammar are not one of my skills Fast response I ordered the AntsCanada Ultimate Ant Keeping Handbook My old XP computer had a error downloading,. the email link would not let me download it a second time. it thought a had downloaded it. I emailed AntsCanada late in the...