ANTSTORE World of Ants

[Messorus]

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[Bexi]

what ants you sell

[Messorus]

Hello all
Actuall list of species is:

Aphaenogaster subterranea
Camponotus vagus
Crematogaster schmidti
-//- sordidula
Gnamptogenys species
Messor barbarus
Myrmecina graminicola
Odontomachus kuriowae
Ponera coarctata
Proatta species

and it´s possible in future that I will get Harpegnathos venator and Odontoponera transerva soon, but I don´t want talk so early about....

@Bexi: Sorry, no ants for sell
Cau Bexi, sry ale teraz nie su ziadne druhy na predaj, aj ten jeden dva co mam uz idu prec A ak aj daco chytim, tak to ide do Anglicka za tie druhy co spominam hore ze pridu
Ale Adrian by daco mal mat, spytaj sa jeho

[Messorus]

Hello guys, I´m back after some time again
I have few new photos for you to show

[JimmyVe]

Very nice pictures man. How do you keep the ants on the paper ? (i know they are dead but i mean do you just put them on it ?)

[Messorus]

Very nice pictures man. How do you keep the ants on the paper ? (i know they are dead but i mean do you just put them on it ?)

Thanks
It´s a type of preparating technique, it´s ,,preparation on a card" by dispersing glue. Dispersing glue make invisible after putting on it... Preparation of ants is very hard by a thing, that they as Apocrita have mobilier gaster and head than for example bugs, or other insects, so we must put also some glue under gaster´s end- somewhere around Doufor´s secretor... First drop of normal glue is dropped on card on the place, where will be ant´s thorax.. You take card than, and stick ant by his thorax on this drop of glue... Preparation of ants is quite harder than other insects I think, it´s very mobile insect and they have longer ,,rigormortis"(solidification in convulsion) than other insect. I use few pins of size 000 for imobilization of legs and etc... It´s quite hard to describe it for me...

I put some some new pictures on:

[Messorus]

Hello guys
Some new photos upgraded

*Sorry from worse quality of some photos

[JimmyVe]

Very nice.

[Messorus]

Hello guys, I´m back
I actually keep just M. barbarus, T. caespitum, C. vagus, all other ants got strange illnes which started from some of mine species fro JP and than died,- H. venator, O. transerva, O. kuriowae, Pachycondyla astuta, older C. vagus- 130 workers.. all died
But I visited Greece, Korfu and enjoyed it there, with a lot of my exotic mediterraneal ant species! I didn´t cought nothing interesting for keeping, ,,just" Proceratium spec. queen(extremely rare ant!, one of 5 European Proceratium species), possibly numidicum or algiricum and I saw many other myrmecologicaly rare ants- Pyramica spec(membranifera? one of 5 medit. specs ) workers and alate male, Hypoponera (eduardi? there are 7 spec. of Hypoponera in s Europe so....) workers, and I got them for my alcohol collection, also with 3 males of Proceratium! So for ant keeping nothing, but for my myrmecological heart.... aghhh
I show here some photos

[JimmyVe]

Really nice hunting place. Wish i had such a back yard.

[Krabbie]

Very nice, I like your hunting place!

[Messorus]

Hello guys and thanks
Yes it was absolutely super place, but a bit dry... I found there Messor spec. adult colonies, some nice black ground(WTF?!) species of Crematogaster(auberti?) and C. schmidti..... And some Gionoma or what ground ants it was...