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Wow! Ant-loving crickets, you're super lucky, I'd love to have some of those!

I'm guessing no one knows about any of this, then... probably shouldn't have put this under "FREQUENTLY asked questions," LOL

Huh, I never thought about that! This is a good point, though, and I'll have to try it with my ants. Maple syrup is coming up!

So, when I first started out antkeeping, my dad wasn't too thrilled... he didn't want a ton of ants all over the house, and told me that a lot of ants eat wood (they don't). One of my little sisters caught this tremendously HUGE ant queen in a plastic sandwhich bag, a gorgeous red-orange color with ...

As a huge fan of certain exotic ant species, and a hopeful myrmecologist, I was very happy to discover that there is a permit you can apply for to import ants (and there's a lot of caveats before they'll give you said permit). One day, I hope to do some research on RIFA to see how we can control the...

Ah, this would be a dream come true for me! To be a myrmecologist, ah, it would be lovely. Of course, I'm also a huge fan of some other bugs (most notably being lepidoptera), so entomologist is a close second (but there's only about a dozen colleges in the US that offer doctorate degree programs in ...

Carebara castanea, 100%. I love the striking dimorphism between the queen and her workers, they're so tiny and she's so huge!

Here's a really great ant game that's fun to play:
https://archive.org/details/msdos_SimAnt_-_The_Electronic_Ant_Colony_1991
It's not super high-tech, but I enjoy it.

Question: what kind of music do ants listen to?
Ant-swer: Classical symphanties by Johannt Sebastiant Bach!

Pale grey ants whose queens are two-three inches long, but the workers are only about a millimetre long, that spray formic acid and herd aphids. Also, polygenous, and super-colony forming. And fully claustral, just because that's easier to keep (and the big queens would be easier to find during nups...