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In all of Mikey's videos on the AntsCanada youtube channel he mentions using a heating cable to keep a formicarium or a test tube set up at a good temperature. I am unfamiliar with heating cables. What are they, and can someone recommend a good one to use for a test tube or for a formicarium?

Yes that's a queen (you can see the wing scars) but I don't have enough knowledge to identify the species. Maybe someone else will know.

Oh? I was wrong. Yay, I can learn about a new species now. This is exciting. I assumed because they loved the concrete so much and since they were so small that they would be tetramorium. My favorite thing about the colony I watch is that they have their nest halfway up a concrete wall, and regularl...

(I accidentally made a thread elsewhere before I realized I should put it here. http://forum.AntsCanada.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2348) I was meeting with my life counselor last month and happened to notice a tiny golden dot scurrying around on her coffee table. I get excited by all sorts of tiny crit...

I was out for a walk the other day and saw a yellow painted concrete block with a lot of queen ants and what looked like male alaides on it. I am familiar with a tetramorium colony (I'm pretty sure. They live inside cracks in the concrete) that lives right next to this concrete block, and I saw seve...

I was meeting with my life counselor last month and happened to notice a tiny golden dot scurrying around on her coffee table. I get excited by all sorts of tiny critters and I thought it was a mite or a small spider. But when I let my eyes adjust, I recognised the segmented body of an ant, as well ...