ANTSTORE World of Ants

[JimmyVe]

Dank je wel Thomie, het zijn idd leuke miertjes en goede jagers ook. Echt doe moeite deze kolonie. (en niet heel moeilijk te houden, het blijven natuurlijk wel exotishe...)

[JimmyVe]

Nieuwe foto's

1ste foto zie je ze gezellig drinken.
2de foto zie je hoe ze net een stuk sprinkhaan gekregen hebben en hem aan het verkennen zijn
3de foto kan je zien hoe de mannetjes (een hele deel in deze kolonie) uit het nest komen met dit warme weer.

New pictures.

First picture you see them drinking
Second picture they received a piece of grasshopper, they where checking it out.
Third picture you can see a few males of the colony coming out of the nest with this warm weather.

[ratgreen]

very nice once again. have you had any winged queens yet?

[JimmyVe]

No only males. A lot of them. But they will die soon or the workers will kill them.

[ratgreen]

i suppose you cant let them fly can you, they would be everywhere inside your house, lol. If they were to fly when do you think they would?

[SteveUK28]

very nice jimmy.. cant wait for my colony to get that big

[mzfckr]

nice pictures!
btw, how big are they? what temp they need? do they need any specific humidity?

[JimmyVe]

@ ratgreen: no it would be against nature to let them fly out. (and illegal to i suppose ) It is just not done. Nuptial flight most of the time have place after rain when it is hot out side.

@ steve: they will, they will.

@ mzfckr: i guess (but i'm not good at this) about 200 workers. I keep them at 27°c the hole year (they don't hibernate) Not specific humidity but they like it a bit dry (the nest i mean) but not to dry.

[mzfckr]

i meant whats their size?

[JimmyVe]

Ah, okay. Sorry.

I think about 0.8-1cm for the workers. Majors about 1-1.4cm

[thomie]

I guess i've seen this specie in a park at Istanbul. They also had that strange ?back body? .
But i didn't had much time to watch, stupid boat times .

[JimmyVe]

back body?

Gaster.

Could be. I only know that they live in Argentina but they can also live there.

[thomie]

I guess the climate in turkey is similar to Argentina.
Those stupid boats, when i was walking another day i saw a moving nest, ants walking with brood to another hole (don't know the specie, the ants where about 1Cm long and had verry long legs ±5mm)
I had already made a plastic 0,5L bottle with wet toilet paper inside and catch ed some ants with brood and then it was almost time for the last boat to leave. Release the workers and bye bye nest :S ...

[Skippy]

I think about 0.8-1cm for the workers. Majors about 1-1.4cm

hmm Jimmy , it is better to write , size of normal worker 7mm up to 9mm and major 10-11 , max 12mm ..... because 14mm is size of HUGE ligniperda major and I dont believe substitutus major is so big

aaand Camponotus substitutus live only at South America (Argentina , Brasil , Peru...) , that what have you saw in Istanbul was probably Camponotus maculatus it is very similar to substitutus (but more nice and inteligent )

Skippy

[JimmyVe]

When you have a small colony the majors don't grow so large. But in my colony i have even bigger majors than the first ones. And i can say that the biggest one i have seen (measured) was 14mm.