You make them, there are a lot of guides and tutorials online and on youtube.Were can you buy a really nice ant farm in the US??
I only see the cheap ones for kids!!
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Myrmecologist2
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Nice Messor sp!Sorry for the quality, I need to buy new rechargable batteries for my camera as my old ones burned out.
Here is a crappy webcam picture of a harvester ant queen with her tiny clutch of eggs between her jaws.
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In Messor spp. keeping the hardest period is between caught collected and born nantic workers.
From my experience in European species - try give the queen fresh killed fruit flies or grass seeds. Sometimes it gives good results.
From my experience in European species - try give the queen fresh killed fruit flies or grass seeds. Sometimes it gives good results.
They are here! Atta texana collected from Livingston, Texas on my recent trip.
Some queens already established the first piece of fungus and have eggs laid next to it.
Some queens already established the first piece of fungus and have eggs laid next to it.
Myrmecologist2
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Wow, stunning! (Are some of those queens my future ants? )
)I gave it a couple grass seeds and it has laid another clutch of eggs. Awesome Atta's btw!!!
Ok guys so I misplaced my camera again so deal with these webcam photos ha! Solenopsis invicta had their nuptial flight today after a rain last night and my driveway is crawling with queens. I just plucked most of them off my car. I currently have 8. I caught 19 but I let half of them go because S. invicta can get a small colony started within 3 weeks and I don't want to be overwhelmed by them. I have 2 queens in one tube to experiment with their polygamy.
I am still waiting on the Crematogasters and the Pheidoles to start their nuptial flight. I seen them carrying pupae of queens so it shouldn't be too long before they start flying.
I am still waiting on the Crematogasters and the Pheidoles to start their nuptial flight. I seen them carrying pupae of queens so it shouldn't be too long before they start flying.
We'll seeWow, stunning! (Are some of those queens my future ants?
A fire ant colony can have multiple queens and do well together, I have seen a dozen fire ant queens working together digging a hole. They perform nuptial flight here as early as April and continue to fly through July or even August.Too many fo them killing many other native ant species.All the best in finding Crematogaster and Pheidoles queens.
They're good. All are laying a nice cluster of eggs, but these 2 queens are just insane.
What I like is that this single queen alone has laid just as much eggs.
I hope Crematogasters and Pheidoles fly soon because I'm getting really tired of S. invicta's. They're the only species I've ever kept. ..
What I like is that this single queen alone has laid just as much eggs.
I hope Crematogasters and Pheidoles fly soon because I'm getting really tired of S. invicta's. They're the only species I've ever kept. ..
I thought you have Messor pergandei also?
Yes, it is my first Messor species, but she leaked a white fluid from her abdomen yesterday and died. My friend found her at the lake in a box and it wasn't their season to fly yet so she probably had a colony of her own already and couldn't make it without them
