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[miszt]

Some species are extremly photophobic, some are not, for eg Camp herc are very happy to be in the light, but Camp subs queens will eat her brood if left in the light

Its a question of experience, if you dont have much experience, its best to stick as closely as possible to the way they live in the wild

[JimmyVe]

@ Moiser: if you look at your colony you don't do it by putting them in direct sunlight. Just uncover the nest slowly and they don't stress out. (if you don't leave it to long uncovered)

[Moiser]

Ok cool, I thought any light getting into the nest would annoy them. I guess if the farm is 20mm wide the colony could build their nest on the dark side of the farm if they wanted to.

[anquietas]

well idk if you queen is from the wild like mine is (feel relly bad for digging her up but on bright side i did get all 17 workers live in the usa not allowed to ship queens) but this queen is doing fine in fact she is thriving in the light i have had her for 3 days now alls i did was expose her to a light for 5 min and hour then today it was 10 min and about 2 hours ago she layed an egg in driect light from a 3 bulb 360 wat light fixture above my kitchen table and just did again about 2 min ago poor thing looked like she was contorting to die when she layed it any way now i guess she is just fine with light in genrel but if u have say lasuis flavus i wouldnt sugest exposing any of them to light not even the workers i have seen them every now in then in my starting L. flavus colony and they bolt for the darkest area when i look now it could be my breath my mug or the light but they seem to be very photophobic to me

[mzfckr]

maybe you could put dots in the message, it would be more easy to understand.

[JimmyVe]

Mzfckr don't mean it in a bad way but he is wright. Try to keep the messages a bit clear and nice to read. Thanks.

[Kale^^]

I've kept my ants in light, since most of my ants are captured from nuptial flights and instantly put into light. Ofcouse i have a couple of colonies collected from nature, and they are kept in dark.

[anquietas]

sry about the long un readible post i am a starnger to dots =p