I know there is a lot of other information needed, but I am SOOO SCARED they will escape and infest my house lol. He is 7. I tried to convince him to get a fish. He said…. No thank you.

Found a bunch of ants coming from roof. With flash on they have bands on their abdomens and are brown in the middle and blackish brownish on the head and read. Some are winged.

What is the most cheap and easiest to maintain polygynous queen I could get right now?

It’s for my required science fair project which I kind of got too ambitious with…I know how to maintain an ant colony but I just realized where the hell do I get a polygynous any colony? My science fair is about whether a single queen performs better than a bunch of queens…please help.

If they aren’t diurnal can you tell me an diurnal carpenter ant species

Hello I have a question. My worker cuestnus carpenter ants suddenly became sluggish and most died. The queen is still alive. What should I do.

I would like to acquire an ant queen without having to pay for one. However, catching a winged queen is not an option for me because it’s currently winter where I live. Could you kindly suggest any alternative methods? Thank you for your help!

so there’s been a ton of rain in my area and it drove in some ants that have found refuge in my warm room. i will also admit that there may have been some food on my nightstand that may have attracted them. i grew up in this room, so there’s a ton of pinholes in the wall from me redeorating all the damn time and since the ants are coming from the windowsill, would they be able to enter through the pinholes as well? i’ve tried talking to my dad about filling them in and repainting my room a while ago but he’s very insistent i don’t need to (he doesn’t know about the ants i’m not in the mood to get yelled at yet) i’m setting out some traps later today, but should i fill in the pinholes too?

If possible I would like to see if anyone can identify these ants. Caddy/Bottom of a power supply box for robotic pool cleaner on a clients property. Lubbock Texas. Sorry I couldn’t get better clarity from the screenshots I pulled from the video I took.

I have a Messor barbarus(25workers) in a Utisol 1 ant nest from ants hq. However when I give them seeds they take them into a pile in the outworld. And even when I put seeds directly into the nest they take it out to the pile. I am afraid they may starve. Any info would be great! Thanks

I have utisol 1 ant nest from ants hq which i put my Messor Barbarus colony(20-25workers) into. However,every time I give them seeds they take them to a pile in the middle of the outworld.even when I put seeds directly into the nest they still take it out. I am worried they may starve. Any info on what I could do would be amazing! Thanks

i live in the uk and last year around halloween time, i began noticing ants which i got identified on r/ants - i battled with them the whole rest of that year and eventually stopped seeing them when the colder months went away. i’ve tried all sorts - killing them, powdered sugar mixed with baking soda, cleaning down surfaces in vinegar and even having tissues soaked in vinegar around the areas where i saw them most and nothing worked.

my room is right above the living room which has a fireplace, and the wall i see most of the ants is the wall where the chimney is so it does warm up when the fireplace is on. i don’t eat upstairs and don’t have anything that would attract these ants but i’ve begun seeing them again in the same spot i began seeing them in last year, is there any product i could use to get rid of them permanently?

although they don’t affect me too badly i’m constantly on edge looking out to see where they are as last year they were creating nests in some dvd’s i had alongside crawling all over the desk i’m constantly at, essentially not allowing me to use the space i have to store things with the fear of having them all over my stuff.

any help/advice is extremely appreciated!!

Hi all, I've had this Pheidole pallidula colony for 3 months now and their colony is getting bigger by the week. Next to the strawberry jam I always give them, I usually give them a piece of cooked meat, or some chicken every once in a while but I'd like to change things up a little. I feel like I can't buy roaches or mealworms yet, as I need to buy whole bags of them (500g) and 90% of it will die/perish before I can feed them to my ants, so I'd have to throw it away. Is there anything I could get from my local supermarket that they'd also like? I've read tons of different things but obviously it's different for every species.
Any suggestions? Thanks!

I need help finding which types of protein reinforce the chitin in ant necks. This is so I can calculate the composite’s Young’s modulus for an engineering project. I’ve found that resilin is often found in the exoskeleton but probably isn’t the protein found in the neck joint as it is rather flexible and wouldn’t sustain the heavy loads ants are known to carry. I can’t seem to find what other proteins might be used in that case anywhere on the internet…

I really appreciate your time on this issue. Thank you!

Hi I love ants and don’t know anything about books

I just finished reading astrophysics for people in a hurry and was wondering if anyone knows about a book about ants written in a style like that

Not just a book of facts but one that explains in detail as it goes on

Or even a book about bugs in general because they are awesome

Hello I love ants but I don’t know anything about books. I just finished reading “Astrophysics for people in a hurry” and was wondering if anyone knows of any books about ants that are kind of written like that. Like not just a book about facts but where it’s like written explaining everything as it goes on. Or just bugs in general but ants are always finna be the goat.