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Yes. She actually layed more now!!!! They have a decent size cluster!!!!

Thanks!!! I wish the video was longer too!! I actually kept filming and thats the exact time i ran out of memory!!! I didn't stop the video my camera did :( haha at least i got the video!!!!

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY SLAVE MAKER QUEEN LAYED ABOUT 8 EGGS!!!!!

Here is the long awaited for video of my slavemaker ant colony. This is them feeding the queen.

Citronella ants are near impossible to start but i'm trying one. You have whitish ants??? They might have just hatched. Most of the colonies love the cotton ball and sit on it. Some colonies get creative and start building little cotton mounds. I almost never have ants tunnel into cotton they...

With dirt setups some people lose colonies, some people get mites (like i had mites kill a citronella ant colony i captured.) and when they are in the tunnels most of them make dark rooms in the middle so you can't see.

Catching some workers and brood definatly isn't worth it. You definatly during the summer will see queens at dusk. A lot of species fly late afternoon then land at dusk. To be honest i'm very against dirt setups! I use testtubes, fill then halfway with water, take a cotton ball and shove it down...

I don't sell ants. You definatly have a good amount of ants around you. You should try catching them.

Slace makers are so hard to ID i tried looking it up but i don't think it has been studied. Your ants are probably tetramorium.

Yeah thats probably what i'm going to do when they colonies bring their brood up.

She hasn't layed eggs as of yesterday. So no slave maker workers yet. Most survived i think maybe 2 or 3 died out of 20. I'm waiting on the first batch of eggs.

Your Welcome!! Yeah i did add too much water :rolleyes: haha the food works really good!! Winter ant/false honeypot = P. imparis those are just the common names!!! So those were two winter ant colonies fighting over a blob of honey i put on the ground :-D It was in the fall and i would say...

At the point of time i tried to start the slavemaker colony i had no formica :huh: So i thought up a plan!! I put a rock on the formica hills by me and behold!! They nested under it, and they even brought all the pupa up!!! So i snagged about 20. and gave them to the parasite queen and she...

I have been keeping ants for about 2-3 years. I have such a biodiversity of ants up here!!! It's unbelieveable!!!! P. imparis is my favorite species!!! I have i think 8 colonies. Waiting for this years flight. I'm currently keeping formica (like 5 different types), a slavemaker ant colony that i...

I have been keep ants for a very long time and you WILL NOT find someone selling a slave maker ant colony. I guarantee it! The only way you could get one is to catch one that's around your house (probably will end up being a different species but same effect.) I would recommend doing a lot of...

Ok I was wondering that!

Its ok at least i tried. You got your mantids from a reptile store? I have seen them sold as reptile food on ebay and stuff but no in stores. If you are in the UK i can believe it.

He got on and whack!!!!! ... she got him

Well I tried mating them and he was eaten. They didn't even mate :(

I'm about to try to mate my budwing pair! But how long will they mate for? All the mantids (chinese) that i have mated took 12-15 hours!!! I don't want the budwings to mate that long! If anyone can help let me know!!!