Anyone into ANTS?

[Josh]

Just got my first colony today and a few potential queens. Formicariums are en route. Who else here is into ant keeping? Anyone?

 

[octanejunkie]

@Arthroverts might be

 

[Casey K.]

I wouldn't mind keeping velvet ants. When I was in Texas we used to call them "cow killers" and they were everywhere. Here, in South Carolina, (I guess it's my locality) there aren't as many. What species are you currently keeping?

 

[Josh]

Camponotus fragilis at the moment.

 

[Arthroverts]

Thanks for the tag Octane!
I currently have five Veromessor pergandei queens, waiting on eggs for most/all of them. I have missed Pogomyrmex, Camponotus, and Solenopsis flights by a matter of hours this season, grr.

I'd love to acquire some Camponotus I will say, where'd you get your fragilis @Josh?

Thanks,

Arthroverts

 

[Josh]

I got my fragilis from a guy on Formiculture.com
I've added some honeypots too

 

[Arthroverts]

I'm guessing Nurbs? He seems to be the go-to guy for them "fraggles."

Anywho, nice! Which species?

Thanks,

Arthroverts

 

[MBullock]

Im into formiculture as well. have a nice camponotus absquatulator colony going with a bunch of majors, but no supermajors yet, oddly.

 

[Arthroverts]

Im into formiculture as well. have a nice camponotus absquatulator colony going with a bunch of majors, but no supermajors yet, oddly.

Are these the ones that were brood-boosted with the CA-02?

Thanks,

Arthroverts

 

[MBullock]

Are these the ones that were brood-boosted with the CA-02?

Thanks,

Arthroverts

they were lol! i ALMOST got it to work, but there was always that one worker that's like "oh hellz naw" and just rips the ca-02 apart. oh well lol

 

[Josh]

We're well on our way to an Ant subforum lol
It's time to post pics guys
Had to edit some settings. Lol when your own website wont let you upload pics

 

[Josh]

 

[RoxanneHawke]

Just got my first colony today and a few potential queens. Formicariums are en route. Who else here is into ant keeping? Anyone?

I have a colony of Camponotus nicobarensis - they are ace I have mine in a soil nest surrounded by water (in a fish tank in fact haha, they are doing great)

 

[RoxanneHawke]

 

[Josh]

I wanna see the moat setup!

 

[RoxanneHawke]

I wanna see the moat setup!

They are fast outgrowing it because they like it so much haha, I made a video on my YouTube channel of how I made it

 

[Arthroverts]

they were lol! i ALMOST got it to work, but there was always that one worker that's like "oh hellz naw" and just rips the ca-02 apart. oh well lol

Ah gotcha. That's unfortunate, but I guess it goes to show that there is a reason CA-02 brood aren't found in absqultator nests, ha ha.
Are you on formiculture.com by the way?

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Beautiful! There are so many neat species in Australia.

Thanks,

Arthroverts

 

[Josh]

I'm on formi but I wanna start my own Ant Forum lol

 

[MBullock]

Ah gotcha. That's unfortunate, but I guess it goes to show that there is a reason CA-02 brood aren't found in absqultator nests, ha ha.
Are you on formiculture.com by the way?

Yes, i was that dude that freaked out over giant asian hornets a while back lmao

I bet my colony would accept semitestaceus brood, they're very similar

 

[Arthroverts]

I'm on formi but I wanna start my own Ant Forum lol

It's an uphill battle to get a new forum started and going strong though, as I'm sure you are aware with this one.

Yes, i was that dude that freaked out over giant asian hornets a while back lmao

I bet my colony would accept semitestaceus brood, they're very similar

There was a lot of people freaking out about them, ha ha.
Ay.

Thanks,

Arthroverts