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Hi all, i'm new to the forums so first off i'll introduce myself... i'm ryan... good enough for now.
Anyways so me and my buddy were smokin a cig after a long day of doin yard work and playin some pick up football. One of us happened to look down and see a HUGE ant. neither of us had seen one this big before so we caught it and i put it in a container. We both guessed its a queen ant and after readin up a little bit on all this im 99.9% sure its a queen ant. BUT i dont know what kind of ant it is besides... black. i live in michigan and it was just in my garden in the front.
ANYWAYS so i decided to keep it and i filled a lemonade/kool-aid container up with dirt/soil from the garden i found it in. put water in it and some sugar and put the queen in. Now.. do i need to find workers for her to dig the nest? or does she do that? and whats a good ant farm container/keeper/thinger (sorry i haven't picked up on the lingo yet). and how long before she starts digging a nest (if she does and not workers) and before she starts layin eggs?
any help/suggestions are very welcome THANKS!
If it is a queen, she will dig alone.
Better you give her a test tube. You fill it 1/3 with water and block the water with Cotton wool. She will have the best home in this test tube. She likes it dark (like under dirt).
If you don't know which species it is, you can try to feed her with a drip honey and a small fly. But you have to remove it after soem days, it can mould.
Maybe you can make a photo?
you i can take a photo i'll try to get a good one. Thanks for the help. if i dont have a test tube at my side what should i use? and how long does she stay in the test tube for?
Ok heres a pic i apologize ahead of time for the bad quality. I dont have a good camera on me so i had to use my cell phone. It looks small but i can see where the wings were attached and then torn off.
You can buy a test tube in a pharmacy. She can stay there for a long time until the winter. Maybe you give her and her first worker a little Formicarium (Terrarium) to go around and pick up food. But for the first time a test tube is enough until the first worker are there.
Good luck!
holy shit! from summer till winter!? wow thats a long time. ok well thanks a lot for the help!
You need patience for ants. If it is nothing for you give the queen back to the nature, where you found her.
no i have patience and im interested in her and ants and nature in general. i'm definitly an outdoorsy kinda guy i've always loved playin in rivers and those little pools with all the sea life in them out on the east/west coasts. i dunno theres just somethin about nature that facinates me. i'm definitly gonna keep her and try to start up a colony i just didnt expect her to take a month to lay an egg. But i guess that'll just make it even more exciting when she does. Thanks for the help/tips again!
No problem.
By the way there are many informations in the "Questions for beginners". Please read so much you can, so your ants will have a good home.
ok will do