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Hi I live in Iran/khorasan razavi/sabzevar and today 8/9/2017, I went queen hunting in a park near are house (it's a big park) .Well I was walking along went over a trail of ants collecting seeds from a weed and then I saw a ant that didn't fit in, so I scooped her in a test tube and WOW it was a q...

Phoenix wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 09, 2017 11:30 am

Nj6000 wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 09, 2017 7:01 am

Rifa is solenopsis invicta right ?

Basically Speaking, Yes.

Is there anything wrong with selling rifa in the GAN project?

Found a big ant. Probably a worker; her thorax isn't that "thick" or "high", her gaster doesn't have the "arc-ish, elongation" many queens seem to have, and I don't see any definitive marks of wing scars (though I must admit I am not really sure what wing scars look like). But even if she is a work...

I found some pheidol nests in south eastern pa and was really hoping I would find some queens because they are my native dream ants. I believe the smaller ones are pheidol for sure because I saw some infertile males and queens in the nests and they match the ones I found during the flight. The smal...

The test tube portal would be the easiest, but you should investigate why the barrier did not work. What did you use? I used a plastic bin and put the test tube setup inside I also put a lid on the container and poked very small holes in it then placed dead crickets with honey in the setup as well ...

The first queen is a Formica social parasite from the sanguinea group. She will need Formica pupae if you are going to keep her. The other two Formica can't be identified to the species with the given photographs. Have you ever successfully raised a social parasite? And if so how did you do it beca...

ACaseoftheMondays wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 03, 2017 6:12 pm

Looks like a Tetramorium to me, but the pic is kind of dark.

Are you serious? That's awesome I've been trying to catch one for awhile now. Can you tell me what kind of Tetramorium it is? And Sorry about the picture it was the best I could do.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz4T_MH3fueoNmFWSndORDZWSDA/view?usp=drivesdk

The queen is 9mm long let me know if the link works can anyone identify her for me?

Nj6000 wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 01, 2017 2:30 pm

AntEnthusiast7097 wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 31, 2017 9:39 pm

I just recently caught a queen ant in a test tube setup and I was wondering if this queen is in fact a queen ant, And if so, What Species is it?

Please provide photos

And measurement

MTKRailroad wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 31, 2017 5:24 pm

Is it okay to have them in the containers they are in? I don't have any test tubes.

I would suggest you get some test tubes because it is the best way start a colony I'm also new and started this year and I have four queens who seem to be doing just fine