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Wait a second!!!! An ant keeper from Maryland? That is awesome, I'm also from Maryland what part of Maryland are you from? I'm from Baltimore but I'm currently living in Glenn Burnie It would be cool to relate with someone from my area for once. I don't use social media but I'm always on the forum ...

I would say give it more time. I caught my Lasius Neoniger queens back in July and it took nearly a month before I noticed any change. Alienus species is extremely similar. They like Neoniger, are also sensitive to light. A lot of times, the queen will cover the young larvae with more eggs making it...

Lasius are fully claustral so it really depends on your workers. The issue with going away at this point is ensuring they have enough food. At first, your queen will feed them from her fat stores but as more workers hatch this will become too taxing on her and she will need to forage. In these found...

I have a Ponera Pennsylvanica with at least one larvae at the moment. I don't know if she has more due to a sand substrate I'm providing her.

However, I'm not sure if her species hibernates. She is my first semi-claustral species. Does anyone know if this species hibernates?

UPDATE (August 25-28, 2017): I attempted to connect my Ponera P. queen's test tube to a homade outworld and 3D printed, 3 chamber formicarium created by Safeway ants. The intent was to see if she would discover the formicarium through the outworld and switch locations. The setup was the test tube co...

@Dearth335 Awesome! Let me know how it goes. I'll be uploading some photos soon of her current setup and a makeshift outworld I had setup (that didn't work, see below). To this point, I have found, despite disturbing her daily in this method, the test tube environment and hydrating her sand (I use p...

Identifying my queens. So, first I purchased a 20 and 30 time magnifier and I did a lot of extensive research on the species. Getting familiar with how each species tends to look from watching lots of ant videos gave me a headstart. All I had to do was narrow it down to species in my area and then n...

Hey everyone! I'm Mykel from Maryland, USA. This is my first year in ant keeping. I've always dreamed of having my own ant farm since I was a kid but never really knew where to start. Came across AntsCanada back in July and started hunting for queens. I'm very fascinated with ants and have already c...