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by SolenopsisKeeper
Fri Jun 02, 2023 12:14 am
Forum: Ant Journals, Videos, and Blogs
Topic: Another! My queen ant journal
Replies: 49
Views: 142366

Re: Another! My queen ant journal

May 31, 2023 Checked on her a little and she has eggs! Gave her a slapped mosquito and will give her a wet cotton day after tomorrow https://photos.app.goo.gl/qicbvMTvKtkKiUuT7 Here are some crappy photos. From estimate she's around 6-7 mm long (don't even have a scale here bruh) Almost looks like ...
by SolenopsisKeeper
Fri Jun 02, 2023 12:11 am
Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
Topic: Request for Identification
Replies: 7
Views: 1483

Re: Request for Identification

I think you are correct, ill do further research on the species. thank you for the help! You have a lot of research to do buddy ;) if you need more help feel free to ask anything, we'll help you :D Presently I'm just trying to work out a setup for her as I don't have a test tube setup as I didn't p...
by SolenopsisKeeper
Sun May 28, 2023 2:45 pm
Forum: General Ant Talk
Topic: whatant
Replies: 2
Views: 3274

Re: whatant

noahmk12 wrote:
Tue Jul 09, 2019 9:40 pm
what ant do you guys have? post please and answer the poll
A lot right now lol

Lots of campos and some trap jaws sums it up nicely
by SolenopsisKeeper
Sun May 28, 2023 2:44 pm
Forum: Ant Keeping for Beginners
Topic: New to the forum and the hobby
Replies: 3
Views: 4435

Re: New to the forum and the hobby

I have always loved watching ants work but have never had an ant colony with a queen, a few as a kid with just workers for a few months at a time. I want to do a good job of caring for the ants but want to work with what i have as much as i can. I only have a limited budget but have a lot of variou...
by SolenopsisKeeper
Sun May 28, 2023 1:49 pm
Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
Topic: I think I caught a Lasius Umbratus queen! UK, Early July
Replies: 12
Views: 7428

Re: I think I caught a Lasius Umbratus queen! UK, Early July

I think that I have caught a Lasius umbaratus queen aswell. what should I do? should I get brood boosting online because there are basically no sources of brood around my area? do they accept workers? It is unlikly but I wish they did. How can you find a lot of workers but not brood? Just move some...
by SolenopsisKeeper
Sat May 27, 2023 5:37 pm
Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
Topic: Soleonosis fugax Queen killed workers.
Replies: 3
Views: 874

Re: Soleonosis fugax Queen killed workers.

I have found 2 s. fugax queen last year and 1 layed eggs and they hatched their now up to a size of about 20-30 workers. Now i wanted to introduce the 2. one because s. fugax is poly. and put them together in a setup. The 2 queens are in different testtubes and today i found like 2-3 dead workers i...
by SolenopsisKeeper
Sat May 27, 2023 5:36 pm
Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
Topic: pheidole pallidula not eating
Replies: 2
Views: 791

Re: pheidole pallidula not eating

How often do you feed them. Feeding once a week is plenty for that small of a colony. The workers might be full of food so they wont accept anything right now. Also remember ants wont easily let themselves starve to death so if they aren't eating now, they dont need food If they are heated they’ll ...
by SolenopsisKeeper
Sat May 27, 2023 2:42 pm
Forum: Ant Keeping for Beginners
Topic: Great news
Replies: 1
Views: 1467

Re: Great news

EEEEEEEEEE wrote:
Sat May 27, 2023 1:59 pm
I currently have 2 colonies of Camponotus and 2 colonies of Carebara Diversa.


I find it easy to find queens now, compare to back when I first started.
:mrgreen: Nice :mrgreen:
by SolenopsisKeeper
Sat May 27, 2023 11:43 am
Forum: Ant Keeping for Beginners
Topic: Changing test tubes
Replies: 6
Views: 2217

Re: Changing test tubes

Larvae Alright, light does not work with Camponotus . I think the best course of action would be to turn the test tubes so that they are in a vertical position (with the old one above the new one), then tap the old one until the queen and all the brood falls in. If you can't get the brood out, you ...
by SolenopsisKeeper
Sat May 27, 2023 11:41 am
Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
Topic: Queen identification please - suspect Solenopsis
Replies: 19
Views: 3802

Re: Queen identification please - suspect Solenopsis

Thanks for the reply. This was sort of my fear was to have the imported fire ants... especially having found 6 of them. My guess was based on some general image searching and the part that at least the one has produced what seemed a rather large clutch of eggs at this point. Sort of uncertain wheth...