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Cool setup. That looks quite a bit like a Hybrid nest??

How are these guys going? Out of curiosity, what are the white grain looking things in the bottom of your hybrid nest in your latest post? They are doing great -- still in a hibernation-like state. Not a whole lot of activity in the colony. The white grain stuff is just white silica sand. I have be...

Hi NashAUS, welcome to the forum. Regarding ant journals, there are several being kept here on the forum. You should review some of them to get some ideas on what you'd like to do with yours. Here is the forum for journals:

http://forum.AntsCanada.com/viewforum.php?f=26

I could be wrong, but I believe that most of the time it is the workers who select the queen who will survive. They slowly get rid of the queens until the strongest, most fertile, etc., is the last surviving queen. Not sure how the can determine that?? Having said that, there are also many species t...

I concur with Formica.

My hybridnest small arrived today!! :D .And first of let me tell u that it is a very cool and awesome nest. But it was much,much smaller then i expected it to be... But i still liked it while my dad freaked out when he saw how small it was... :lol: Although it may seem small, you will be able to ho...

Tylosaurus wrote:Anywho, do you know of any ants in my region that have any castes at any point of their colonies stage?

I don't know of any. We'll have to wait for a more experienced ant keeper from the Eastern US to help you with this question.

btw do any of you know why AntsCanada got rid of the ant box cuz I was planning on getting one but they are off now I'm guessing permanently? Mikey may provide additional info, but I believe that while they were a nice formicarium, they were problematic, primarily assembly and shipping. I believe t...

While this would be cool, I do not know how many people on here actually have enough experience with a specific species to write one of these care sheets. Good point. We would have to moderate closely who writes and edits them I suppose. Perhaps make some requests to qualified individuals for vario...

Cool video!