Identify ants

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Cryptosporidium
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Identify ants

Post: # 66826Post Cryptosporidium
Sat Jan 25, 2020 9:14 am

Can someone help me out with identifying these ants and tell me if they are any threat to my geckos, these ants apparently came along with the cork I bought for my geckos terrarium.

When they are eating they have their abdomen raised and it looks heart shaped, Google told me acrobat ants..

https://youtu.be/ypvvu91wLuc

Need help, I really don't need a colony in my vivarium and I don't want my geckos to be harmed

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Re: Identify ants

Post: # 66838Post antnest8
Sat Jan 25, 2020 3:33 pm

according to antmaps.org
There are no species of the Crematogaster genus that lives in Sweden.

Also as long as there are not a ton of ants in there then the ants are going to be nothing more than extra gecko food.
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Cryptosporidium
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Re: Identify ants

Post: # 66852Post Cryptosporidium
Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:49 am

The cork rolls are imported and when they was introduced to heat and moisture I got these ants crawling around. I should have asked that they are not a native species.

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