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So we have has a few too many run-ins with corckroachs or spiders crawling in through the pipes/air vents this summer. As such everyone in my house has voted to use insect foggers to bomb the house. This is fine. But I'm curious when I should bring my ants back inside. Thankfully they are in test tu...

Hehehehe Working overnights I sometimes find quite a few queens during the summer. It feels awkward posting every few days. X"D So THIS is the harvester! hahahah Well I still have some mini outworlds. ;) Oh wow, Formica, that wasn't even on my radar! With any luck I'll have some viable queens in thi...

Hello and welcome fellow ant enthusiats! :D Hope your surviving this summer well! Thanks for your time and help! Hope you enjoy the ant photos! I waited a while to do another post here, didn't want to seem spammy. ;) It finally rained after more than a month! I may go for another walk tomorrow morni...

Ah shucks, thats a shame. I Would try to keep it if I had a young colony/spare colony. But the recenelty caught Tapinoma Sessile is the only one. And the young Tetramorium Immigrans don't have any workers yet. Thanks for comfirmation on the pavement ants! //crosses finger// There were also several m...

This is what I get for posting half asleep. X"D

All found on 6-16 in Southern Colorado

Hello! Sorry to be back again so soon, but I hit the jack pot! Last night at work, I work the graveyard shift at a gas station, I managed to collect a great many queens, I'm hoping at least some of them are gravid. :D I'm thinking that all the large-ish black ones are Pavement Ants, but confirmation...

Thank you very much for the ID and Feeding direction. ^^

I really hope they do well.

Hello! Been a while since I was last here! ^^ This week while at work I experienced a scene from a horror movie while stocking a soda cooler, and a swarm of small black ants carrying brood came rushing out of a 12 pack case of mtn dew. O.O I thankfully work at night so I had the chance to scoop up a...

So normally where I live, southern Colorado but I'm in the mountains, we get pretty harsh winters and 2 phases of it, typically a cold spell between october-november and a lack of snow/cold in december part of jan and then more snow/cold in feb/march. My room, where I have my ant, has not ventilatio...

Beep Boop! Just thought I would post an update on my girls! <3 I checked on them today and 2-3 of them have laid eggs! :D I have also noticed some mold developing on the water soaked cotton. I don't think it's enough to worry about quite yet, but I will be preparing more tubes for the next weekend s...