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Hallo all I have some questions about hibernation, i have Lasius Niger and were wandering when and how long they need to hibernate. When i look at the ants outside they are mostly gone so i guess they have started their hibernation but, my ants have it nice and warm and have access to plenty of food...

18/9 2018 The colonies are all doing grate, i'm starting to think about putting the in hibernation. They don't seam that active most of the time they just hang out in the test tubes on occasion i see one or 2 ants in the outworld foraging. 4 of the families are nearing 20 ants the last one is a bit ...

I have Lasius niger 5 colonies, one of them cant handle honey they get stuck in it the other never have problems, so i think it is good advice keeping the drops smaller then their bodies that way they can get free i think.

4/9-18 During the weekend i made a forced eviction on one of my families :D . they were put in a wrong size test tube that did not fit my modular setup so i desided to try and get them in the right size. I connected their test tube to an T connector one side on the 2 other sides of the T connector w...

My youngest are 7 years and he were afraid of creepy crawlers, including ants. So i thought it would help him to see and learn about ants. We found some ant mounts in our garden and started looking for queens, in the beginning he kept som distance but soon his nose were close to the ground as he squ...

There are some Protein in it according to the contents but the weird thing is brown sugar have the highest contents

All 5 collonies are now 10+ workers and have a lot of brood . I have tried to training them to stand in columns to make counting easier but it is not working

30/8 2018 hey Ltislander and other ant people After catching a lot of fruit flies in my kitchen, fast little critters :D . I decided it i were to much work an brought melworms, 6$ for 100g I'm setup fore a while even if nobody contact me in the GAN program and i end up with 5 colonies. I have fed th...

Try putting something light tight over the test tube to make it dark and cozy, maybe that will make here go back home

I'm new to the forum but i log on every morning European time and for the past couple of month there have been a steady 2 pagers of new posts. Most of them are ID's witch are pretty boring for a new ant keeper ;) and around a handful of other that are interesting to read and see peoples opinions and...