Laws on shipping ants USA Please Help!!!
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Roger that, Thanks.
2 Tetramorium Immigran Colonies #1 [40-50 workers] #2 [5-7 workers])
1 Lasius Neoniger Queen [waiting to lay after Hibernation]
1 Lasius Neoniger Queen [waiting to lay after Hibernation]
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Lasius flavus is native to a lot of U.S. states, yet I am not saying that it is right to order even a native species.
"God made every kind of wild beasts and every kind of livestock and every kind of creeping things;" (including ants) "and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:25
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There are actually no Lasius flavus in North America. Ours turned out to be a new species, Lasius brevicornis. Hopefully this adds to the point that it is irrelevant whether or not a buyer thinks an ant is native.AntsDakota wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 12:19 pmLasius flavus is native to a lot of U.S. states, yet I am not saying that it is right to order even a native species.
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Now I'm starting to wonder whether Europe and North America have any species in common.Batspiderfish wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 12:31 pmThere are actually no Lasius flavus in North America. Ours turned out to be a new species, Lasius brevicornis. Hopefully this adds to the point that it is irrelevant whether or not a buyer thinks an ant is native.AntsDakota wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 12:19 pmLasius flavus is native to a lot of U.S. states, yet I am not saying that it is right to order even a native species.
"God made every kind of wild beasts and every kind of livestock and every kind of creeping things;" (including ants) "and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:25
Re: Laws on shipping ants USA Please Help!!!
Only the introduced ones from there.AntsDakota wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 4:51 pmNow I'm starting to wonder whether Europe and North America have any species in common.Batspiderfish wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 12:31 pmThere are actually no Lasius flavus in North America. Ours turned out to be a new species, Lasius brevicornis. Hopefully this adds to the point that it is irrelevant whether or not a buyer thinks an ant is native.AntsDakota wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 12:19 pmLasius flavus is native to a lot of U.S. states, yet I am not saying that it is right to order even a native species.
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I now won't be surprised if taxonomists declare that the European and North American Formica fusca and Camponotus herculeanus are two different species.
"God made every kind of wild beasts and every kind of livestock and every kind of creeping things;" (including ants) "and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:25
Re: Laws on shipping ants USA Please Help!!!
As far as I have seen, the only type of ant that can be legally shipped over state lines is one species of harvester ant, pogonomyrmex occidentialis. That is why the GAN farmers are set up by state. The last thing we need is another gypsy moth plague. If you buy, buy local, but you're better off catching and raising your own queens.
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Main interest is C. Pennsylvanicus, interested in most native ants to my area.
Main interest is C. Pennsylvanicus, interested in most native ants to my area.
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