ANTSTORE World of Ants

[highered]

Yes in my experience you do have to ventilate an ant farm or you will get lots of condensation which over time could turn into mould. I used an electic drill in mine to create holes which I covered up with netting which I sellotaped on.

[miszt]

anyone thinking about drilling holes into glass, make sure you have the right drill bit, and get sum advice from an experience glass cutter, theres plenty about, would hate to hear that peoples farms have shattered! its easily done.

Also be sure that your species wont get thru anything you use to fill the wholes, I would recomend some kind of Wire mesh, as ants cant chew thru it, Lasius niger wont get thru matirial netting, but Camponotus and Pheidole will in seconds

I've not needed ventilation in any of my farms however, i think its important to check the tempreture fluxuations in the room you keep them in, as this is more likly responsable for any condensation, aswell as over watering

[FredeP]

Will it take 10 days for a new queen's eggs to be larva? And how long to be coccon? (talking about l. niger).

[JimmyVe]

I'm a 100% sure i put this already in a topic. (egg to worker) Please use the search engine.

[miszt]

Its in at least 4 other threads search search search! why dont people search? it saves so much time, and you'd really be amazed by the information you pull up without meaning to! theres SO MUCH to learn on this site, if people only spent a few seconds clicking that button...

[FredeP]

Thx(: Have found it
but it's not the same with the day of the egg to larver or to adult?
so what is ca.?

[JimmyVe]

Did you find this ?
http://www.antstore.net/viewtopic.php?t ... +to+worker

I found it in less than 1 minute with the search engine, i think it says everything you need.

[FredeP]

Nope, and I searh egg to worker ? but thx(:

[highered]

Most ants nests are ready for the nupital flight and I think that as soon as its hot and dry (not the wet weather currently) they will go on their nupital flight.

[moxi93]

the same thing happened in my garden. many queens with no wings where just wondering about finding a place to nest. the best place is just looking on the floor.(good if you have a garden)

[mzfckr]

there are a LOT of l.niger flights here in latvia, i collected about 20 queens . if someone need a queen i can get one.

[delete-14751]

L.niger flights have started in the UK, i got four queens last weekend and i thougt i had missed it. lol

[JimmyVe]

@ mzfckr: like i said before, why collect 20 queens of the same species ? You only need about 3 or so they make sure you have one nice colony. Lasius niger grow fast and most queens will start up a colony without any problems. What are you going to do with 20 colonies ? I would suggest you wait until the first workers hatch and than release most of them back into nature where you found them.

[delete-14751]

I agree!