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[ant dude]

hello everyone, im starting this new topic as im intrested when other people started keeping ants in captivity/and what there first species was. please vote at the voting pole please

if u wanna say what was your first species of ants in captivity and what they were like for u please do.u can if u want say what was your percific age as it is quite intresting to know

everyone feel free to vote and reply

[Skippy]

I saw queen first time , when I was about 5 years old (lasius niger) , then later , when I was about 7 years old I saw camponotus vagus queen

[ant dude]

i fault i better get the ball rollin, i voted between the ages of 5-10 years.to be persific i was 7 years of age. because when i lived in london in my back garden there were 3 different species of ant: myrmica rubra, lasuis niger and lasuis flavus i kept niger first as i was quite attracted them when i was younger. for me it was amazing i just coud'nt take my eyes off them (i cant really now iver lol) anyway i remeber keeping them in an ol ice cream tub with soil: there first insect i gave them was a centerpide they really enjoyed it so did i wacthing these facsinating insects. my mum 'n' dad kept telling me to put them down where i found them(of course being so intrested in them i did'nt and snuck them to my bedroom to keep. mum found them a few days after and she threw them in the bin.the time i asked did u see them she said to me she chucked em i was crying my eyes out. then i just kept collecting loads more ants they kept chucking em out i kept collecting.i remeber one day i put a niger queen in a plant pot about a year later there was a big colony of them this really annoyed em. and shortley afterwards we moved to yarmouth (probaly because the ant inthestation lol)
luckily for me i can keep them now........yes

[sithmaster676]

i began keeping ants at the age of 11 my first colony was lasius niger and from there on i have got a lot more experience and now keep a lot more various species.
Sithmaster676

[Ant27]

Hi!

I've already asked this question in the german part.
Link: http://www.antstore.net/viewtopic.php?t=5283

Very interesting!

Sorry for my bad english!

LG Martin

[Messorus]

I wanted to keep ants in my 4 years, but I didn´t have no literature or publications.... But on my 13 birthday, a moth ago my 13, I had found a queen of Lasius niger and it started.... And in June of this year I had keeped my first colony from C. vagus queen.... I knew basic information about ants from my 7

[ant dude]

ant 27: wot bad english? your's seems better than mine lol
wow 4 real i did'nt know somebody alreay asked this in the german forum

i agree this is intresting

i agree sith i now posses a lot more expirence and good understanding of ants, same ere moving to different species aswell to blood

intresting messorus

[Purifier]

I was captivated in Camponotus ligniperda as is was a little child. Dont know what age
Any time when i was on a airing trough the forest with my grandparents i stand captivated for many hours in front of a hill from Camponotus ligniperda and watch all the ants scurry on the ground ^^

[miszt]

my first colony as at 7, but i had no clue what i was doing lol

had a few more colonys when i was about 12, Lasius Niger and a Formica colony that i found a queen of, these went ok, surivived a few years, but i had to get rid of them as my farms where very small

when i was 22 I had 3 camp. colonies and my first cataglyphis colony, cant remeber which of each i had ( i have a very bad memory lol)

now i have all sorts, having experimented allot with diffrent setups i'm still a n00bie tho, lots to learn still, but thats always good, coz if i run out of new things to learn I wont bother with them anymore i'm sure

[ant dude]

thanks for feedback everyone, voting and replying

miszt same with me as i was young when i started colectinging ants i
did'nt know really much about them really at all. although now i know quite a lot about ants, but theres always more to learn

[JimmyVe]

I was always fascinated by ants, but i only started to keeping them (in a descend farm) a few years ago. Started of with Myrmica rubra and later on with Pheidole pallidula. Now i have about 20 different species and i would like to keep some more, the only problem is i do not have much room for it now, so i have to wait until i move (later on next year).

[darradar]

ok, i first noticed ants when i was about 10, and indeed i kept a few in a jar,( myrmica rubra) i had no idea what i was doing, i just knew i was facinated by them, id always been interested in spiders, which i still am, but when i saw some ants attaking a spider, i was like wow, so collected some in a jar and proceeded to feed them spiders, i kept them in my garden shed, id half filled the jar with soil, and was amazed when i saw that they had made tunnels into it, i think i kept them for about a week, when my dad found them, and said he'd let them all go, as it was'nt appropriat to keep them in a jar, i remeber being very upset, lol sounds silly now as i sit and think back, i do not have many child hood memories, but for some reason this i can recall. I have however only began to keep them properly since my Camponotus cruentatus arrived in may.

[tail__]

I love ants since my childhood, and I observed them whenever i met them, usually on streets, and some people certainly did think I am sort of strange kid, sitting and staring into a pavement. When I grew up, ants still fascinated me.
I thought about keeping ants home, but I thought it is too hard to make good environment to them. But this year i've read some web pages about that and i've started my own colony last summer. I even didn't need to hunt for queen, a brand new Lasius niger queen flew to me through window

[ant dude]

nice discussion going on

tail_ i try not to tell people about that i collect ants because it will destroy my rep!!!
i try not to look at ants wheres theres loads of people as-well because of this!!!

nice to hear though i always just cant help myself to look at ants, like when im walking down the street!!!

[ant dude]

any other people who would like to say about when they started collecting ants?................feel free this thread never gets old lol