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I’m keeping the Crematogaster colony in a mini-nest set-up. The workers seem to avoid crossing the connectors, I’ve tried adding them for a test tube water attachment. I tried putting food in the tube as well and it didn’t lure them in. Strangely they’ll enter tubing. Currently I put wet q-tip in th...

I’d appreciate a very small nest, acorn sized, to start new colonies or for the smaller colonies which naturally nest in them.

I also think a vertical nest that mimicked dead twigs would be interesting.

Lol! Teach me the ways. I swear my colony would desiccate and die rather than move on their own.

I resorted to moving my Crematogaster colony with a paintbrush instead of dumping them. It wasn’t fun but I didn’t have more than a casualties. I’d tried removing the water source and they still refused to move into a new test tube they just chilled in the outworld.

Thank you! The links were extremely helpful.

I’m new to ant identification. Does anyone have dissecting microscope or magnifications recommendations to see the characters necessary to identify species?

Any dichotomous key recommendations for United States ants?

Thanks!