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I have a Dorymyrmex Insanus queen, when I received her I put in the test tube a drop of honey-water, and instantly put a red cellophane around the test tube, and put it in my night table. (It's the quietest point in my house). Three days before of today, I checked on my queen, and she has got larva...

So after some research I found many articles about Oleic Acid, the ant death pheromone. The issue is no one really knows the specifics of when and how it's released. There have been study's that show Oleic Acid is released two days after when an ant dies of natural causes, but when an ant is killed ...

Hello,good day and good night for anybody reading this topic.recently i buy some mealworm and place them in a container.it's a plastic container with some dried substrate.but somehow flies and maggots always got trapped inside it...and i hate it very much. no matter how moist and dry it is there is...

Michigan gets cold, does that count?

Krikesari wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 30, 2021 6:47 am

Really need a gan farmer in Delhi India, please contact me. Any species would do

According to the website, there is a GAN farmer, but no current colonies for sale

Update: I gave both colonies new AntsCanada equipment and 1 part sugar, three parts water sugarwater test tubes. Hopefully they will have more luck at producing workers than the old tubes. When there is enough workers I will probably buy some sort of insect feeder, probably mealworms. Tetremorium a...

Hello,good day and good night for anybody reading this topic.recently i buy some mealworm and place them in a container.it's a plastic container with some dried substrate.but somehow flies and maggots always got trapped inside it...and i hate it very much. no matter how moist and dry it is there is...

Hey all, so im working on a large campanotus formicarium design in a 3d software and was wondering if any one who has kept them can help me out and wants to be part of this project. also 3d designers are welcome I've worked with Campanotus for almost 4 years now. They generally prefer dryer nests, ...

(I feel like a broken record every time I post) I caught a carpenter queen on March 31st this year. She has 5 workers, and has for the whole time I have had her. I am pretty sure some more should exist by now. The only brood I have seen have been small and seem to have dwindled. Should I be worried...

Hello, I found this Crematogaster scutellaris queen a week ago, and for the past week she's been on the cotton that blocks the entrance, is there too much space in the test tube? Or is it something else? https://imgur.com/a/6fRdO1s Just a heads up. Crematogaster is notorious for being sensitive to ...