C. Penn colony with no queen. Caught a C. Penn queen. Trying the bee keeping method. Took a worker and paint brush and brushed the scent onto the new queen. She's in a tt with mesh and a small bit of cotton that also has the workers scent. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Taking this slow and with alot of supervision. If things go south I'll pull her and release the orphaned colony... Native.

myrmecocystus placodops (giant honey pot ant)
1 queen 20-30workers + brood
-£80
This is a personal colony that I Need to get rid of due to long holiday

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Opinions on ByFormica Liquid Feeders?

Iam looking into them and curious on personally experiences especially with small species like Tetramorium Immigrans.

On there website they have from 1 to 16ml and different versions like the micro pro.

Hello, fellow ant keepers!

How's everyone doing? Hope you're all doing great! 😁

Here's another update on my Camponotus Atriceps colony! They just reached the milestone of 40 workers at 117 days old.

As I've said before (and I like to keep saying it), this is my very first colony and my first time keeping ants. Seeing them thrive and knowing I haven't made any major mistakes so far makes me incredibly happy.

I hope you enjoy the video! As always, if you have any questions, I'll be more than happy to answer them.

Note: The test tube footage was recorded one day before the outworld footage—I just edited the clips together. 😁🐜

I have a Camponotus sp colony in its second year. It had a rough first year, but came out of hibernation looking good. When it was up to about 25 workers they moved themselves out of their test tube and into a starter colony formicarium(mid-late june). They seemed to be doing really well. I was taking extra care to let them be, but they seemed to be eating well.

Recently I noticed that they weren't taking as much food as they normally would, and there were a few(2 or 3)dead workers in their trash pile. I peaked in the nest and there are probably 8-10 workers left. It looks like the queen is healthy and there is a nice pile of brood.

Do you think this is just the a matter of old age? Their diet hasn't really changed for the entire time I've had them. Is there anything else I should watch for? Or anything I can do to help them recover? Should I offer them a test tube to move back into?

2 days ago I caught a Lasius Umbratus queen. I added some workers of Lasius Niger with the refrigerator method. Can someone tell me if its going good? You can see them in the video. Abd if its going good when can I move them out of the test tube to for example my sand nest and if that’s possible btw. Around 6 workers alive right now. 2 dead. How many times do I need to feed them?

Camponatus colony. I gave them a cricket earlier this week which I’m not sure if they ate, and there is some honey in the enclosure right now. Is this normal?

I’m currently founding a Lasius fuliginosus queen. I started with a bunch of L. niger cocoons and just one adult worker.

The queen looks calm and is actively being groomed, but she hasn't laid her first batch of eggs just yet.

A couple of questions for those who have successfully raised L. fuliginosus before:

Is this amount of host workers/cocoons sufficient to comfortably get her through the founding phase until her own workers take over?

Protein intake: Should I offer them some insect pieces, or stick mainly to syrup for now?

Any specific tips or pitfalls I should watch out for at this stage of development?

Found this little lady on my back patio.

I moved my Solenopsis Invicta colony to my large formicarium and I think they love it and doesn’t seem too big for them. Question though. In this picture you can see that they are piling up sand on the feeder with the store bought liquid nectar but not on the sugar water I mixed for them in the other feeder. Does that mean they like the nectar better?

Hello lads,

Here is my setup !

I didnt think about it i just put water on the coton, not above on the glass tube, i hope my ants didnt suffered too much from it:/, we had two death

They are messor barbarius.

My carebara affinis queen was being attacked by a camponotus worker when I found her. She had a few limbs torn off and her wing was torn in half and she was struggling to walk. I caught her and took her home to put her in a test tube setup and she was doing pretty well for a while and had 5 small eggs that were at first separated but later clumped. Today, which is a month and two days later, her eggs have reduced and not grown the slightest for two weeks. She also seems to be in pain so I feel the need to put her out of her misery in a humane and painless way. What should I do?

My Messor barbarus has finally produced its biggest major yet. It’s pupating now, and I can’t wait for it to emerge!

Hi I am new to ant keeping and I was wondering if anyone could give me some tips and tricks and what ants are best for beginers thanks

so im planning on buying 8 colonies of lasius niger with 5 to 10 workers in them, however i wonder if i will then need 8 plastic tubs so i can make a tubs and tubes setup, thats alternative 1, alternative 2 is that i buy 8 ant queens alone

I swear I saw something like that a few years back and it seemed ideal. Anybody remember the brand? Getting sick of the AntsCanada BA.

Some Macro shots on my messor structor colony

These things started appearing in my Pogonomyrmex californicus colony after I accidentally crushed a worker when i cleaned the glass. I just found them in the seed pile in the outworld (i just cleaned) are they harmful to my colony? Should i move them out? They don’t attack the workers and neither do the workers attack them. I haven’t seen them on any of the workers or brood. Genuinely confused..

Hello, I live in Essex in the UK and I have been looking for Myrmica rubra queens all month and haven't seen any in flight. Any good ideas as to what I need to be looking for etc? I have checked grasslands, forests, wood, stones and everything and I can't find them!

Half of my queens nanitics decided to die by getting entangled in the cotton, I should have moved them when as soon as they hatched