ANTSTORE World of Ants

[JimmyVe]

Antstore is a shop, they live from selling.

I prefer trading but sometimes i need to buy some ants. I only trade them ore send and ask the money for shipping cost.

[Kiam]

Ok anyways since im getting rushed im buying a starter set on antstore But I have one question for to be answered The ants have these little black bits in there nest I think there off like insects and they have made it in a pile does that mean its trash or there still going to consume it ?

[hypervelocity]

Hi all,

Kiam i think its trash, maby a more expireanced myrmecologist can awnser.

[sithmaster676]

hi
i would say it is the inedible bits of fly and insects you have given them, if they pay no attention to it then just remove it
is it inside the nest or outside the entrance?
Sithmaster676

[JimmyVe]

i'm not sure i understand but i think it is trash, remove the trash every time you feed. (keeps the out world a bit clean. )

[Kiam]

I actually think there using it still because at the end where the trash or whatever is there is alot of ants there what would they be doing lol

[hypervelocity]

Hi all,

Some spisies of ants bury the food you give them, so maby not remove just yet.

[Kiam]

They cant bury it in a test tube lol Thats why I was wondering because im getting a starter set

[hypervelocity]

Hi all,

Oh, then you should remove it, otherwise the hole colony could get ill and the test tube could get mould in it.

p.s:
You should make shure the colony is kept out of the light for L.Flavus are underground hunters.

[Kiam]

Ok Ill move it tomorrow

And Atleast I do something right I put all my colonies in the dark

[JimmyVe]

not the hole form needs to be in the dark, only the part where the nest is. the out world need some light to.

[Wallboy]

I was wondering if anyone could help me out with a lasius flavus question... I read somewhere on the forum that this species milk woodlice, or something along those lines. Would I be safe placing a woodlice into a test tube with a lasius flavus queen, around 10 workers and a lot of eggs? Any suggestions would be great..Thx!

[Kiam]

I red it to and I placed 2 in there they have barely moved and I dont think they harm them

[darradar]

I don't keep this species, (Camponotus cruentatus I have) though I am not sure putting the woodlice into the test tube is a good idea, more like putting it into the out world/foraging area, where the ants can find it and do what they need to, with it. I know some speciec milk affids (green fly larvae), but woodlice I did'nt know. I think placing it directly into the tube, would surely stress the ants, giving the size of a woodlice compared to the ants. If I am right, the ants minipulate the woodlice, affids in "thier" own enviroment, with cooperation and not by dragging them back to thier nest.

[hypervelocity]

Hi all,

I think that Lasius flavus do not milk woodlice, but they do milk root aphids.