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Hi Ooper! I just came back to the forum after a few years and I'm excited to see that it is busy as ever! I also see there are a fair share of phony posts/advertisements. Sorry you guys have to deal with that. Has it steadily gotten more prominent or is this a sudden influx?

Yes, the repletes are very cool! I can't believe they fly so early. . . I always forget to look. Anyway, welcome to the forum; I'm excited for this journal!

Welcome to the forum! When you post pictures, get the direct link to the photo and put it within the brackets the insert photo gives you: https://i.imgur.com/auN2bFF.png Congrats on the queen :D Based on AntWiki, Tapinoma Sessile flies in June/July, so finding one in September seems a little off. I ...

Feeding them will only increase the population. If you want them to go away but not kill them, I think the best you can do is keep the area clean and seal any holes they might be coming in from.

https://i.imgur.com/*****.jpg This is a plaster nest I made in 2015. The little holes in the plexiglass are for pipette-ing in water. Most of the chambers with water-access are just hydration pits - meaning the ants didn't have access to the chamber. The water would soak into the plaster and increa...

Hello! Welcome to the forum :D Keeping her just a few degrees above room temp is probably all she needs - it just speeds up brood development a bit. Once you have a larger colony, you can put the heat source on one end of the nest and create a temperature gradient. This way, ants can choose exactly ...

I couldn't tell you. . . What I do know is that luring them out is probably not an option. They rarely decide to move out unless their current nest is way worse than a new one.

I get a error 404 message with your link. Here is some info on posing pictures on the site: https://youtu.be/c1Mu4Rw3s8w

C. herculeanus tends to have a little more red on the back end of the thorax, which is why I leaned toward C. modoc