ANTSTORE World of Ants

[jartok]

the flights happened in birmingham yesterday - i managed to catch 43lasius niger and 12 lasius flavus - could of got more but ran out test tubes

how did everyone else go ?

[JimmyVe]

Why are you all catching so much queens ??? 55 queens, what are you going to do with all of them ? No really i don't understand why everybody want to catch 50 Lasius queens, everyone can catch them where they live so you can not sell them (maybe 1 or 2) and what are you going to do with the rest.

(not personal to you jartok, your not the first one but had to reply to it do)

[jartok]

ah na i can sell them its not a problem

[SteveUK28]

Still none here at all..

[matt-man123]

i will buy Lasius flavus/niger when they have their first workers/brood

[Tiberius]

well, i don't think it's a bad thing to collect so many queens. In the nature 8 of 10 would die before they could found a colony. So in the worst case he can not sell the queens, so he would give them back to the nature as a small colony...

In my region near cologne I could collect hundreds of niger and flavus and a couple of others, but it's to stressy and could not sell them. (may be one or two for an euro, so it makes no cense)