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I can't seem to find much, if anything, about what ant bread looks like. Is it this sticky wad? There were a couple of girls tending it, right on top of a larvae, so I'm only guessing that's what it is..? Pogo barbatus

So I have two queens. One lasius niger and one lasius flavus. Lasius n has three workers and lasius f has none but brood. I've always thought about making a naturalistic setup. But what if I didn't have to make one. I would poke a hole in my garden, away from and neighbouring colonies. I would monitor them or try to at least push them out.( Not physically) And I would have my own colony right in my garden. Feed them the right stuff and garden colony? I think this would work but I'm not sure. And as well as that I wouldn't be able to observe the queen. Either one of these colonies I'm will to test it on. What do you think?

I have been raising two Camponotus colonies from wild caught queens, CA02 and Vicinus. Both have about 12 workers and have been the stars of my YouTube video series. The other day I found one of the CA02 workers dead in the outworld, the next day all of them were dying except the queen. I moved her into a new test tube with her brood and she was fine for about 4 days after the incident, then she started behaving weird and now she is dying.

The day following the CA02 die off, I noticed one Vicinus worker a day start dying. Now there is only one worker left and I'm scared the queen will suffer the same fate. Here is a series of clips in the order they occurred.

I thought maybe it was a bad meal worm or the sugar water. Now I'm wondering if it could have been a piece of fruit I gave them. About week prior I have given the colonies a piece of strawberry, a few days later I gave them apple. Only now I'm finding that fruit can have pesticides. Could that be the reason or could there be another factor I'm not considering? The fact that they started dying a week apart strikes me as odd. Any insight is appreciated.

Im tryna hunt for camponotus maculatus or variegatus sp in the Philippines when is their schedule for nuptial flights? If its already over ill wait next year

I need a info fact. -Do Phidole sp. have cocoons? -If they do , how long will it take to hatch? -If not , When will they finished pupation? -How large will the colony be to start getting majors? -How long will it take for a worker to get to a egg to pupae/Cocoon?

If u do respond thank you for responding.

I put my leftover sugar water in the fridge for the ants next meal will they go bad even in the fridge? And if so then when do they go bad

I will be going to another country and i will leave my ant colony for possibly a month or 2 and i put 3 test tube set ups in it filled with water and if they go dry how long can ants survive without water?

Recently i bought a queen online a messor queen(no specific species) and i got 2 queens instead of 1. Now i plan on raising both of them but since i don't know what species they are so i got no idea if they coexist with one another. Should i move them into separate test tube setups just to be safe or is it fine? Note: I live in Turkey and it has to be a native species because it was a legal site, also i don't have a macro camera so i can't id it neither

..I unfortunately have to bring my queen Polyrhachis ant through a 7 hour roadtrip.

I’ve had her in the dark, but I’m really worried about the vibrations. She hasn’t had her first workers yet either.

Will she be okay?

I'm in the northern suburbs of the Cape Town area if anyone knows a good place to source ants, or is willing to trade. I'm looking for a messor queen

How do you guys either A get rear cotton Ball out? or B keep filling up water while queens are in test tube?

Caught a Stigmatomma Female Alate (not sure if fertilised).

Based in Penang. Willing to sell her and the test tube together for cheap.