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noahmk12 wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 09, 2019 9:40 pm

what ant do you guys have? post please and answer the poll

A lot right now lol

Lots of campos and some trap jaws sums it up nicely

I have always loved watching ants work but have never had an ant colony with a queen, a few as a kid with just workers for a few months at a time. I want to do a good job of caring for the ants but want to work with what i have as much as i can. I only have a limited budget but have a lot of variou...

I think that I have caught a Lasius umbaratus queen aswell. what should I do? should I get brood boosting online because there are basically no sources of brood around my area? do they accept workers? It is unlikly but I wish they did. How can you find a lot of workers but not brood? Just move some...

I have found 2 s. fugax queen last year and 1 layed eggs and they hatched their now up to a size of about 20-30 workers. Now i wanted to introduce the 2. one because s. fugax is poly. and put them together in a setup. The 2 queens are in different testtubes and today i found like 2-3 dead workers i...

How often do you feed them. Feeding once a week is plenty for that small of a colony. The workers might be full of food so they wont accept anything right now. Also remember ants wont easily let themselves starve to death so if they aren't eating now, they dont need food If they are heated they’ll ...

EEEEEEEEEE wrote: ↑

Sat May 27, 2023 1:59 pm

I currently have 2 colonies of Camponotus and 2 colonies of Carebara Diversa.


I find it easy to find queens now, compare to back when I first started.

Nice

Larvae Alright, light does not work with Camponotus . I think the best course of action would be to turn the test tubes so that they are in a vertical position (with the old one above the new one), then tap the old one until the queen and all the brood falls in. If you can't get the brood out, you ...

Thanks for the reply. This was sort of my fear was to have the imported fire ants... especially having found 6 of them. My guess was based on some general image searching and the part that at least the one has produced what seemed a rather large clutch of eggs at this point. Sort of uncertain wheth...

I'm at an utter loss for words. I got a boosted colony from Tarheelants and I've moved them into the foundation Formica,given them plenty of seeds water and they been drinking a mix of the ant liquid food mixed with organic honey. Just yesterday I was excited to see one of the queens own pupa was s...

Hello everyone! I'm a high school Ecology/Marine Science/Biology teacher and a new ant keeper! I recently got my first queen and workers from a GAN farmer yesterday. He says they are a type of Crematogaster. They are all black, so I'm assuming they are Black Cocktail Ants (Crematogaster peringueyi)...