Ants S.A. 's ant journal
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 4:14 am
I currently have:
A cardiocondyla colony with healthy brood. I am busy making a cement formicarium for them because they were found living in a cavity in a brick that was half buried. I hope this will resemble there natural environment more closely...
For their first meal I gave them some honey and the head of a grass hopper. I didn't see them drinking any honey but they dragged the grasshopper head into the nest for their larvae to feed off directly.
A lepisiota sp. living in a small wooden formicarium. They have about 45-55 workers, 1 queen and tons of brood. They love there honey
4 messor queens . 3 of them have eggs. The forth I'm not sure about she is living in a tictac container filled with soil she has dug against the side but I cannot see very well through it because there are still patches of soil blocking my view.
2 tubes with atopomyrmex. One tube has 2 queens. The other 35. I want to see what happens with that. Neither tubes have laid eggs yet.
I have 2 more tubes with some or other species from the myrmicine subfamily. Any way I have 5 in one tube and 15 in the other. They only started laying eggs recently after a long wait, I caught them in April, they hibernated through the winter though none of the other wild ants did
Please give feed back
I will post some photos later on...
A cardiocondyla colony with healthy brood. I am busy making a cement formicarium for them because they were found living in a cavity in a brick that was half buried. I hope this will resemble there natural environment more closely...
For their first meal I gave them some honey and the head of a grass hopper. I didn't see them drinking any honey but they dragged the grasshopper head into the nest for their larvae to feed off directly.
A lepisiota sp. living in a small wooden formicarium. They have about 45-55 workers, 1 queen and tons of brood. They love there honey
4 messor queens . 3 of them have eggs. The forth I'm not sure about she is living in a tictac container filled with soil she has dug against the side but I cannot see very well through it because there are still patches of soil blocking my view.
2 tubes with atopomyrmex. One tube has 2 queens. The other 35. I want to see what happens with that. Neither tubes have laid eggs yet.
I have 2 more tubes with some or other species from the myrmicine subfamily. Any way I have 5 in one tube and 15 in the other. They only started laying eggs recently after a long wait, I caught them in April, they hibernated through the winter though none of the other wild ants did
Please give feed back
I will post some photos later on...