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Camponotus wrote:A broken antennae won't do anything to your queen's health. You'll be fine

Good.

well iam in the uk and have like 7 nests in my front patio, and caught some this years nuptail flight. which due to some mishaps all 6 died. but still have a lisus niger queen and 1 worker( used to be 6 yet another acident) and a messor barbarus queen with several eggs. Too bad about all the deaths...

Yo! I posted another topic and I'm trying to find a queen ant. I live in the city near Los Angeles and wen't on a walk yesterday and didn't find one. Where did you find yours? Actually, believe it or not, it landed on my friends shoulder. I was in a grassy area sitting right by a sidewalk. There wa...

Mojorisin wrote:I have been giving mine a very small drop of honey. Most of them (I have nine) have taken to it. I'm going to keep putting one drop in once a month just in case they get hungry. I also started a journal and I look forward to reading yours.

Thanks!

So I caught a lasius neoniger queen on the ninth, but I'm not sure whether or not to give her a little drop of honey yet, or to wait until I put her into hibernation. I'm concerned that I may be starving her! No signs of it, but I want to do what it best for her. She is fully claustral, but she won'...

Hi! I have also just caught a lasius neoniger queen, and while I have only had her for a few days, I can give you one piece of information that you may or may not know. Lasius neonigers hibernate before laying eggs, so you wont be seeing much action for a while, That's pretty much all I can say Exce...

Another thing that ants don't like is a breeze of any sort. I would suggest perhaps getting one of the toy handheld fans and taping it to the outside of the out world, so that the air is going across the top of the outworld. Some air circulation will go into the outworld thus discouraging the ants f...

HI! What I would suggest is a cricket leg and a small drop of honey. Be careful with bugs though. If you live in an area where pesticides are used then you can't just go out side, grab a cricket, rip its leg off and feed it to them. because ants are considered "pests" also, they will die from anythi...

September ninth I caught a Lasius Neoniger Queen! She is my first queen ever. :D She landed on my friends shoulder and then flew down to the grass where I caught her. Unfortunately, one on her antennas broke off while I was trying to move her into the test tube set up. Crossing my fingers she will l...