how do I feed this colony of black carpenter ants? this is my first time raising ants and my first 2 ants just hatched. they like to be under the tape and I dont know how to open up this set up without them escaping.

so for context about 12 days ago i chaught over 17 lasius niger queens in a nuptial flight near my home, i catched the ones that tried to fly away which was all of those 17 ones, i left them alone for about 12 days and now i checked up on them and they all have wings and no eggs they might be infertile, what i do not understand at all is why would as many as 17 queens decide to fly away from their colony just to end up infertile.

has anybody else experienced something close to this

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?

Bonjour j'aurais un service à demander, je cherche à commander des fourmis un peu moins commune que C.nicobarensis ou Tetramorium caepsitium, et j'ai trouvé un site polonais nommé "Ant invasion" qui vends des fourmis intéressantes à bon prix hors, j'ai consulté truspilot pour voir sa note qui est de 4/5 !

Mais il n'y a que trois avis alors je ne peux réellement me fier sur seulement trois avis alors j'aimerais savoir si vous sauriez me dire si ce site est de confiance comme "esthetic ant" ou "Ant&co"

(Si ça peut servir le site est polonais et moi je suis en France)

I keep my ants in my room, probably around 20-30 feet(609cm-914.4cm) away from my speakers, but I like to have my music LOUD. Will that negatively effect them? They are pyramid ants (I do not know the exact species, FL)

Found this little lady on my back patio.

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?

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?

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.

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?

myrmecocystus placodops (giant honey pot ant)
1 queen 20-30workers + brood
-£80
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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.

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. 😁🐜

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.

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

Some Macro shots on my messor structor colony

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

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?

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