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Oh crap!

Yes I see it now, and I remember...
It's because I copy and pasted this whole thing from a question I asked on YouTube.

I was aware that Mikey didnt use these forums..
I guess I forgot to proof read it and get rid of any unnecessary parts like that..

Thank you Joe... I appreciate the input. I wasnt trying to mate them, I only paired them because of information from an antsaustralia video that I must have mistakenly understood wrong.. which said that queens would feel comfortable to have workers in the tube with them.. I assume though from this i...

Well as an update... it's been 2 more nights and now both carpenter ants are dead... I'm pretty disappointed and also upset...i suppose if I was a more experienced ant keeper I would have recognized them both as queens and should have had them seperated as a potential 2 colonies. Problem is when I f...

That doesnt discourage me at all!
I think it just makes me more ambitious to having a colony of them!
I had no idea, it's nice having this forum...because finding information via Google is pretty tough...

*help* I recently started to try and propagate a carpenter ant colony.. I found a wings carpenter and, as well as another carpenter ant that was the same size without wings... I thought maybe 1 was a queen and 1 was a worker so I paired them together which is something that antsaustralia recommended...

Thank you so much for your replies, definitely very informative and I will research into those mentioned species to try and learn how to recognize them and find them in my area.

"I just want to clarify, my interest in that post is that I want to keep solenopsis molesta which is supposedly local to my area.. and I wouldnt want to accidentally buy an invasive solenopsis species that wasn identified properly. . Something that was brought up in that post. Also what are the rest...

I'm just wondering are there any specific species of ants that milk aphids? Or is it something common amongst a lot of different species? I seem to be having a hard time finding a clear answer with a Google search...most search result talk about the aphid more than the ants.. Any of them located in ...

So I'm from BC canada, and it seems like all the fun ants are tropical or neo tropical.. Vampire ants, bullet ants, leaf cutter ants, etc... I thought that an aphid milking species or fungus farming species would be fun, and super interesting. I research fungus farming ants and I was very excited wh...

I tried adding an edit... but I ran out of time... I just want to clarify, my interest in that post is that I want to keep solenopsis molesta which is supposedly local to my area.. and I wouldnt want to accidentally buy an invasive solenopsis species that wasn identified properly. . Something that w...