ANTSTORE World of Ants

[JimmyVe]

Queens from Argentina

[JimmyVe]

Pictures taken with a Sony Alpha Digital DSLR-A100 with a zoom lens, soon I'm going to receive a macro lens so the pictures are going to be better, i guess.

[JimmyVe]

Pictures with the macro lens, finely.

[mpir]

Great new photos Jimmy!!!! Congrats!! Will you share with us some more details about that new lense?

[JimmyVe]

Sure,
its a "SIGMA 105mm F2.8 EX DG Macro" lens with a "Sony Alpha Digital DSLR-A100" camera.

A bit expensive but the pictures you can take with it.

[Skippy]

It is fact ,these photos are great! My new love in antworld is your Camponotus substitutus

[JimmyVe]

They are very nice to, very nice colors.
They are not so well known but they are very nice to keep, they also have ratter big soldiers (majors).
The only difficulty is, they are exotic ants so you need to keep them warm a hole year. They don't have a hibernation period.

[Skippy]

It is only good for all anters in Europe. It is very good in winter ,when Europe species have hibernation - you can looking on queen with ants ,eggs ,larvae, cocoons , when is -15 outside

[JimmyVe]

That is true.

[Skippy]

How is Camponotus substitutus queens/workers long Jimmy ???

[JimmyVe]

I'm not sure but they are pretty big.

I'm guessing the queen is about 2.4 - 2.8cm
Soldiers 2.0 - 2.4cm
Workers 1.5 - 2.0cm

[Skippy]

Yes ,they are very big

Thanks Skippy

[Skippy]

Young Camponotus blandus foto with Camponotus aethiops cocoons

[Skippy]

substitutus foto

[JimmyVe]

They look very nice Skippy.
Looks like they are accepting the cocoons ? not ? I hope they are going to be okay.