Keeping Ants

Using electricity as barriers?

feeds@yuku.com (antdude) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:38:36 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsoJTOTpSCk from http://www.myrmecofourmis...topic.php?f=28&t=190

If I am reading this correctly, this guy is using electricity to prevent ants from escaping. And isn't that cruel?

My lasias niger journal

feeds@yuku.com (Abz uk ants) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:57:54 GMT

I have decided to start a journal. i have a small lasias niger colony i have 2 cocoons lots of larvae and about ten eggs. when they came the test tube was really dirty so i have attached another test tube setup to it. She arrived yesterday i have feed them honey water and a aphid they ate the aphid straight away. they drank most of the honey water. i will start to post tomorrow.the only thing is the colony wont move.

Crematogaster scutellaris mating

feeds@yuku.com (Fiz) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:02:17 GMT

Hello all. First of all I'm sorry for my english (I'm italian): hope what is written below is understandable.
Looking for information about this ant I arrived here and decided to post. The search didn't mach any results (or I wasn't able to use it).
Inside my house from at least two weeks, there are flights of these ants (crematogaster scutellaris). Just yesterday I realised it could be an opportunity to increase my "zoo" and started hunting queens and...

Hi guys my queen has arrived.

feeds@yuku.com (Abz uk ants) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:58:23 GMT

My queen arrived a bit ago and she is really healthy there are 2 cocoons lots of small larvae 10 eggs and 5 workers. The thing is the test tube is really dirty and messy how do I clean it?

My ants wont eat!

feeds@yuku.com (MrLangam) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:58:18 GMT

I wonder why my Iridomyrmex ants wont eat a thing except for drinking water. I tried everything like jam, fly head, tuna etc.

I found the queen under a stone along with her pupas and eggs. There are about 10 workers now

Need help moving queens into an antfarm [with images]

feeds@yuku.com (simon) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:13:26 GMT

Hi,
On the weekend I found some queen ants at the beach when I was on holiday (picture below).
First I want to ask, since I had about 4 days left until I got home to put them into an antfarm, was the best way for me to keep them alive to fill the jar with dirt (which I did and they made a nest), or just keep them in an empty jar like the picture?

Secondly, now that I am home I want to move them into an ant farm, but I assume I can only take one of the queens into the...

New test tubes and queens [ large photos ]

feeds@yuku.com (deano) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:42:16 GMT

Thought I would post this seeing as I have been asked this by people in the past.

I wanted to purchase some test tubes but only knew of a USA company that sent them. I originally purchased 20 tubes 150mm x 20mm. They are good for my sugar queens but way to big for my Iridomyrmex queens.
So I found a local company that sells 100mm x 13mm tubes - which is a perfect size, but because they sell to labs mostly it was large pack. So I had to purchase 250 test tubes. Funny enough I...

Might be getting Pheidole palidula for christmas :)

feeds@yuku.com (Ryan349) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:47:37 GMT

My Dad has been talking with an old friend from collage and has discovered that he likes ants and that he has a small colony of 1 queen 10 workers and a few soldiers that he doesn't want anymore for he wants a different species I would like any information on experiences with them or knowledge on them also i will be getting them a week from now for the guy is going on holiday soon and wont be back for 4 months (lucky) so he want them gone... So i will have to hope they will survive the...

new hatchery

feeds@yuku.com (azgrower15) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:25:50 GMT

Decided to try to use aac block as a hatchery for the ants, and used a deli cup lid for the plastic front.
here are some pics

for moisture i have a paper towel under it that i soak in water which is nicely absorbed by the block, so i never have to worry about changing water.
for feeding i use a syringe that can easily penetrate the plastic, to feed it honey water, for solids i just remove the cotton and drop it in there.
I feel like the ants are more comfortable...

Have you heard of this ant?

feeds@yuku.com (nate263) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:03:47 GMT

This might be old hat to those who know more about ants than I do but I was amazed when I read this. It's a Wikipedia article.

Rhytidoponera metallica - any tips please? :P

feeds@yuku.com (slytherin170892) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:27:53 GMT

Click here (Dutch to English)

Original Dutch Link:

Hey guys. noob here.

feeds@yuku.com (heethenchemistry) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:31:42 GMT

I'm new to the forum and to ant farming as well. I ordered one of those antworks illuminated gel farms but i plan on giving that to my son. I have some big plans of my own and would appreciate your commentary.

First I want to build my own custom habbitat out of glass or plexi glass or something like that. I was thinking of a rectangle 2 feet wide, 1 foot high and an inch and a half deep( this may all change depending on your imput )

Second I liked the gel that ANTWORKS...

Mudskipper's unidentified red queen ants (pictures, Youtube)

feeds@yuku.com (mudskipper) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:01:30 GMT

Here are my new queens. After Antscanada found more queens due to the sudden warmer weather, I went out to look for some myself and found these three. It was around 68F (20C) this afternoon in Boston.

They are red. 7 mm long without the wings. Big heads and mantibles. I can see stings on their ends. First I thought these looked like my parasitic Lasius queen I let go a while back, but Elmnt pointed out Lasius wouldn't have stings. Here is the video (don't mind the background...

Will winged-queens and males mate if I put in antfarm (same breed, from different colonies)?

feeds@yuku.com (simon) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:43:03 GMT

Hi,
Just wondering if this is possible?

Was thinking of putting lots of winged females from one colony, into an antfarm with lots of winged males from another colony.
Hope to get some fertile queens out of it.
Anyone think this will work?