ANTSTORE World of Ants

[deadmeat30]

WOW those pictures are so amazing! really nice acerola! wish i had a good camera to get some pictures of my ants!

keep the nice pictures coming in!

Alan

[Skippy]

I think it is that Prenolepis ,but what it doing in Slovakia???

[acerola]

I found mine in Budapest, it is not far away from the Slovak border. I found this species in my older book also, so it is a well known species in Hungary. It has a slightly different name in the older books Prenolepis imparis var. nitens.
You can read from the American kind Prenolepis imparis a lot in the internet. If you find something interesting about keeping them, let me know.
I hope its life is similar here than its American cousin. The American ant (winter ant or little honey ant) life is very different from most of the other ant. It is foraging in winter from November to April, otherwise it is completely closed up.
You can read everything from here:
http://bio.fsu.edu/~tschink/publications/1987-3.pdf

By the way two other guys from the Hungarian forum also found a queen. I'm hope somebody can raise it to a full colony.

[JimmyVe]

Very nice pictures Acerola, she already has eggs.
I never heart about this species but they look nice.
I guess if you found them there they just need the temperature and humidity they would have in the wild.
Looks like they are in deed active in the winter.

Very beautiful ants. Hope you can raise them into a colony. Good luck.

[acerola]

I learned since my last post, that the forage time of November to April is for the ants of Florida. Maybe they forage longer in more cool places like central Europe.

[JimmyVe]

That is a possibility, maybe you can found it out if you colony succeeds.

[Skippy]

Thanks Acerola ,now I know ,how ant species I have in my formicarium.
My queen have not eggs today ,but she have not wings. I think ,she start making eggs sometimes to next week.

Thanks ,Skippy

[Skippy]

Today I see ,my queen have new 4 eggs

[acerola]

Congratulation.
My queen was very jumpy yesterday and her eggs were scattered everywhere so I put her to a quiet place. I will check her only one time in a week.

[Skippy]

My queen was shaking yesterday and she was so strange ,but today she is OK

[JimmyVe]

Maybe she was a little sick. If she is okay today there is nothing to worry about.

[Skippy]

Thanks Jimmy

I think ,she is a little sick ,but maybe she will OK in future and she will make a good colony :D

[acerola]

My queen seemed nervous when other test tubes with ants was close by to her test tube. Do you have similar experience with other ants?

[JimmyVe]

I keep most of my (young) queens next to each other (the tubes i mean). I keep them in the dark so the don't see (or smell) each other. Only when i take a peak they get nerves but that is with the light (and maybe a little because they are so close to gather.)

[acerola]

Same species or different species? In my case they are different species.