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by SkeleAnt
Mon Jul 18, 2022 2:31 pm
Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
Topic: Ants are stumbling, can’t walk, dying.
Replies: 5
Views: 979

Re: Ants are stumbling, can’t walk, dying.

I used Windex on one of my glass formicariums and it resulted like this. Took workers a few days to die. You may have mites in Solenopsis. Did you see any? Remove any dead bodies as it might also be a pathogen that came from somewhere I just changed swapped out their old enclosures with new ones, b...
by SkeleAnt
Sun Jul 17, 2022 10:09 pm
Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
Topic: Ants are stumbling, can’t walk, dying.
Replies: 5
Views: 979

Re: Ants are stumbling, can’t walk, dying.

Hey all, I have an urgent cross species problem I can’t figure out. One carpenter ant colony and 2 solenopsis colonies are going through a long drawn out death event(?) Several or all the workers in these colonies are going through what I thought were death throws: uncoordinated, stumbling, falling...
by SkeleAnt
Sun Jul 17, 2022 8:32 pm
Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
Topic: Ants are stumbling, can’t walk, dying.
Replies: 5
Views: 979

Re: Ants are stumbling, can’t walk, dying.

Hey all, I have an urgent cross species problem I can’t figure out. One carpenter ant colony and 2 solenopsis colonies are going through a long drawn out death event(?) Several or all the workers in these colonies are going through what I thought were death throws: uncoordinated, stumbling, falling...
by SkeleAnt
Sun Jul 17, 2022 8:15 pm
Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
Topic: Ants are stumbling, can’t walk, dying.
Replies: 5
Views: 979

Ants are stumbling, can’t walk, dying.

Hey all, I have an urgent cross species problem I can’t figure out. One carpenter ant colony and 2 solenopsis colonies are going through a long drawn out death event(?) Several or all the workers in these colonies are going through what I thought were death throws: uncoordinated, stumbling, falling ...
by SkeleAnt
Sat May 21, 2022 11:50 am
Forum: Nuptial Flight Schedules and Sightings
Topic: Pennsylvania and Nearby Locations Nuptial Flight Sightings Thread
Replies: 169
Views: 83537

Re: Pennsylvania and Nearby Locations Nuptial Flight Sightings Thread

Big Brachymyrmex depilis flight today, seen several queens and dozens of males.
by SkeleAnt
Thu Oct 21, 2021 6:18 pm
Forum: Temporary Placeholder
Topic: Recovering Lasius Cannibal Queen
Replies: 1
Views: 1796

Re: Recovering Lasius Cannibal Queen

I've had experience bringing a subscericea queen back from losing her first workers. Test tube flooded in the night and she was the only one who survived. She's now a proud mother of 30+ ants. This is a bit of a long-shot hypothesis on my end, but the queen might have stopped laying, not because she...
by SkeleAnt
Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:42 am
Forum: Temporary Placeholder
Topic: How do ants eat solid food, like eggs?
Replies: 7
Views: 3088

How do ants eat solid food, like eggs?

From all the info I've gleaned from AntsCanada and other sources, it seems like many (but not all) ants take in food that's in a liquid state, like how they drink the fluids of crushed insects. But I've seen the AntsCanada video where he feeds a hardboiled egg to a colony, and they immediately start...
by SkeleAnt
Mon Aug 23, 2021 4:49 pm
Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
Topic: Western PA Queen IDs
Replies: 6
Views: 2123

Re: Western PA Queen IDs

Ant 1 is Myrmica. Ant 2 took some time but I think it's parasitic Formica. It looks like myrmica ants are polygenous, so do I need to catch another new queen and put them together? Or can she start out on her own? I'm not sure if she can integrate with my other colony or if myrmica adopt foreign qu...
by SkeleAnt
Sun Aug 22, 2021 1:33 pm
Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
Topic: Western PA Queen IDs
Replies: 6
Views: 2123

Re: Western PA Queen IDs

SYUTEO wrote:
Sat Aug 21, 2021 8:43 pm
Ant 1 is Myrmica. Ant 2 took some time but I think it's parasitic Formica.
Finally found my ruler, Ant 2 is 5mm long
by SkeleAnt
Sun Aug 22, 2021 1:18 pm
Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
Topic: Western PA Queen IDs
Replies: 6
Views: 2123

Re: Western PA Queen IDs

Ant 1 is Myrmica. Ant 2 took some time but I think it's parasitic Formica. It looks like myrmica ants are polygenous, so do I need to catch another new queen and put them together? Or can she start out on her own? I'm not sure if she can integrate with my other colony or if myrmica adopt foreign qu...