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symbolik wrote:

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So glad this got bumped. What an awesome thread.

I'd focus on more recent episodes. Some of the first couple of shows I barely mention ants at all.

Doctorant wrote:

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Two things, MrILTA:
-- Why not just let the Camponotus castaneus move themselves? You can urge them out of the old test tube with a bright light, while covering the new one. The less handling, shaking, etc., the better, I say.
-- How about you post links to any Formica videos in your series over at the current FG?

I have found that ants don't always explore or make the right decisions soon enough when there are too few workers. In the past I've had cases where I'll give them a new tube to move into but they either don't move into it or they will move but abandon the queen for whatever reason. So I've just gotten into the habit of dumping them out.

If it's just a queen, and or some brood and first workers, I'll attach a new tube right to the old one and leave a finger nail gap between them. Scotch tape holds them together and I'll leave a small opening for ventilation. Even when I put a spot light over them and have the new tube covered they don't aways move. Some of them take a month just to get the idea, and by then their first workers might be coming along and they'll need food which can't be done with the tubes in their current position.

Actually I'd say what I do in my F. pergandei video is more standard to what I should have done with the C. castaneus.

Ant Chat 2011 B-Roll Episode

This is a miscellaneous video of footage I couldn't find a place for in any of last year's shows for various reasons. I may have had an idea for a show in mind but not enough to devote to that show. Or what was needed didn't turn out how I liked. Lots of reasons this stuff wasn't used. Enjoy.