Skippy: (21. Mai 2007 19:40)

I am happy now to see the first workers Acerola. How it is with your page ,you making it?

acerola: (21. Mai 2007 19:50)

I will post pictures from the first workers.
I 'm not working on my page I have so much other things to do. But since it is already cost me money year by year I will definetly do it one day.

Skippy: (21. Mai 2007 19:58)

Yes it is good idea ,you making nice photos and you can get it on your private page on internet ,I have my page on ic.cz and it is free with PHP and 250MB free disc space.

Good luck!

Krümel: (21. Mai 2007 20:31)

Thank you! ^^
You'ce solved a grea mystery of me.
Last year I spent two weeks of my summer holiday in Italy, Toscana.
I was able to identify almost every ant I found but these ones.
I found them in some old trees like in the report and din't know what species it could be. I just saw workers, but they weren't Lasius nor Camponotus like.
The workers were really beautiful, their abdomens glanced when the sun shined on them.
Good luck and have fun with this ants!

PS: A picture of the workers I've found.

acerola: (21. Mai 2007 20:42)

Yes that's it. They call it velvety tree ant in english because of the fine hairs on its abdomen as we can see on your photos also.
It was also a mystery for me for a while but only for 2 days.
The guy who identified it for me is studiing ants in a university and they have big colonies of this species in their town. I never see it myself in the wild.

Skippy: (21. Mai 2007 20:54)

So this is worker of that? It is very nice ant spec. with nice queen too. It is look like Lasius fuliginosus with red thorax. It will be good for you acerola to have this spec in formicarium :)

Skippy

JimmyVe: (21. Mai 2007 23:25)

I also never see this species before. They are in deed very nice. Hope it works out with your queen.

acerola: (22. Mai 2007 01:19)

This queen is really fast more than 20 eggs a single day.
http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/1308/img634601gv2.jpg

Skippy: (22. Mai 2007 07:37)

A bit small eggs with big queen ,more interest for me.

Nicely done!

Skippy

JimmyVe: (22. Mai 2007 08:55)

ww. in deed she is fast. Did she drop there wings yet ? (i hope she is fertilized, she laying eggs is not a shine she is.)