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antnest8
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Dream Ant Colony

Post: # 85389Post antnest8
Tue Nov 23, 2021 11:33 am

Lets just take a moment and open are minds to more wishful thinking...

Say you live in any part of the world, where would it be and what colony would you keep there?
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WestWind237
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Re: Dream Ant Colony

Post: # 85392Post WestWind237
Tue Nov 23, 2021 3:14 pm

my dream ant colony are trap jaw ants but there are no native spieces in my country and my country has strict laws on buying and selling non native spieces

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Re: Dream Ant Colony

Post: # 85396Post CombinedHalo467
Tue Nov 23, 2021 4:28 pm

I quite like where I live in wisconsin but my dream species is camponotus novaeboracensis or maybe tetramorium immigrans, but personally fid carpenter ants fasinating because of their large size and ploymorphisim.
A prenolepis imparis colony with repletes and a big queen also 10 chickens and 1 annoying brother.

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Re: Dream Ant Colony

Post: # 85397Post CombinedHalo467
Tue Nov 23, 2021 4:29 pm

absolutly butchered that last word lol. :lol:
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Re: Dream Ant Colony

Post: # 85399Post antnest8
Tue Nov 23, 2021 7:08 pm

I've always thought that It would be awesome to live in Arizona and keep Leaf Cutter Ants
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Re: Dream Ant Colony

Post: # 85414Post Antloverhuman
Tue Nov 23, 2021 10:23 pm

I absolutely love leafcutter ants and bull ants but none on them are found here :roll:
Ants I have-
camponotus compressus colony- the shadow warriors.
Pls just let me have a tetramorium colony

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Re: Dream Ant Colony

Post: # 85543Post antnest8
Tue Nov 30, 2021 5:14 pm

I fear that for most of us, the ants are always cooler on the other side
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AntLuvForever
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Re: Dream Ant Colony

Post: # 85552Post AntLuvForever
Tue Nov 30, 2021 6:50 pm

For me, its probably Pheidole. They have casts of workers and are interesting to watch. Though they can pack a painful bite, they cant sting. Also they can eat nuts so its prob easy to keep and feed. They also grow fast.
Sadly they dont live in Michigan :cry: :cry: :cry:
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Re: Dream Ant Colony

Post: # 85974Post SolenopsisKeeper
Thu Dec 16, 2021 7:25 am

Antloverhuman wrote:
Tue Nov 23, 2021 10:23 pm
I absolutely love leafcutter ants and bull ants but none on them are found here :roll:
I just realized literally almost every genera of ant lives in Florida excluding weaver ants and army ants. For leaf cutters we have trachymrymex I think we have Atta in the panhandle, we have invicta, big headed ants, black crazy ants, Camponotus, and even trap jaw ants. But, due to the amount of invasive spieces all the interesting natives are hard to find. I say the invicta ratio to native ants is about 10:1. In an acre of land, I found 2 Camponotus colonies and tons of pymrid ants and fire ants. RIP native ants.
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Re: Dream Ant Colony

Post: # 85978Post Antloverhuman
Thu Dec 16, 2021 8:29 am

In my area the main native ant species that have dominated the land are black crazy ants. Like its impossible to go visit India and not see them every where. Other popular ants are camponotus compressus and of course, the famous Oecophylla smaragdina. There are solenopsis geminata but if you compare them to these, they are barely any trouble.
Ants I have-
camponotus compressus colony- the shadow warriors.
Pls just let me have a tetramorium colony

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