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I hibernate my ants outside in ice cream boxes and it's been working alright for now. Just be sure to keep them in the shade and watch out for temperatures below freezing. The problem is my patio is south facing and when it's sunny all day.... The bar fridge is working perfectly. Keeping them at a ...

Thanks for the tips/advice. Lesson learned!! I had a total of 10 Queens, 2 Formica sp. and 8 Lasius sp. Luckily, 1 Formica and 2 Lasius survived. Interestingly, only 2 of my Lasius queens had eggs/larvae/pupae and lo and behold, those are the two that survived. Coincidence? ;) Bought a bar fridge to...

I hibernated my ants by putting them in a toolbox out on my patio (I live in a condo and don't have a garage!). It is getting down to about 8-10C at night and 16-18C during the day. My patio is south facing and I didn't think but it got really hot in the toolbox. It looks like the glass even expande...

Jonathan21700 wrote:Myrmica sp. Very hard to ID.
They are semiclaustral and need to be fed every 2-3 days.

I think you are right. Thanks for the ID. I think I will release them.

One of them as a matter of fact did not even lay a single egg until 8 months after I caught her- she was at the point where I needed to feed her like a semi-clausteral queen because she burned all her fat reserves from just sitting around for 8 months at the point she got a worker. Formica, like Ca...

Finally got my extension tube for my DSLR. These were taken with a 60mm Macro Lens + 25mm extension tube to get an idea of how small they were. You really get to see the hairs on these: http://i57.tinypic.com/6fp341.jpg http://i58.tinypic.com/14tlmae.jpg I caught two of these ladies. Both are defini...

Thank you for the responses. I will keep an eye on the colour of workers when they emerge. At least a few of them have eggs and hopefully some nanitics will emerge soon. I'll also get some good picture of the smaller queens once I get my extension tube!

http://i59.tinypic.com/2afn5ap.jpg Caught on a paved path in a forest early August, Victoria, BC, Canada. Length is about 6-7mm. These queens were showing pleometrosis behaviour (several were digging together). From all the research I have done, I believe this is Lasius Pallitarsis , common around ...

Good Idea! I assume an infrared night cam?
I'll have to set-up something similar!!

Tylosaurus wrote:

notmyidea wrote:Funny you mention Termites, I went for a walk on the beach a few nights ago and they were flying everywhere! Nuptial time I guess.

Lol what state, if not what country

BC, Canada. They love that moist rotten wood that washes up on shore!