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The colony that was growing the quickest was foraging on a daily basis, inspecting the walls of the 10 by 10cm container outworld I gave them, so I decided it was time for an upgrade. I bought a glass fishtank and some ferns and a little bonsai. They are forest ants after all. Using some potting mix...

Some kind of myrmica (I think?) Flying in the Netherlands today.
https://imgur.com/gallery/e5iketX

Thorond0r wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 07, 2018 2:16 pm

Lasius flavus flying right now in the netherlands

Crap, I missed them again. There's a flavus nest in my back garden that didn't fly yet as far as I know so fingers crossed for a second flight this year.

I caught two queens earlier this year ant they both have about a dozen and a half of workers. Id like to merge the colonies but I have no clue what kind of ants these are. I caught them in the Netherlands. I caught them late April (counted at least 2 giant nuptial flights at my work during late Apri...

Picture of f.rufa and f.fusca workers tending to brood:
http://imgur.com/gallery/KKy57FD

Being from a boring part of tempetate Europe and not liking the idea of buying imported ants there's not a lot of 'big' ants around. When I ran across some huge ant queens in the forest I was overjoyed only to find out they were Formica rufa (or a very closely related species) when I got home bummed...