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[marc.tulley]

chaps,
i wanted to put a different species of carpenter ant in my log nest and i see my source of ants have some Camponotus aethiops available
there on average 2mm smaller than the ligni and hercul but ant store describes them as south european and aggressive.....
can any 1 verify this? i love the aggressive nature of my rubra and want to make sure these wernt scardy cats like my ligniperda, which for there size i woulda thought would have been a bit more ballsy!

[miszt]

All species of ant are timid in the first few generations, this is a survival mechanism, until the colony has enough ants to be able to risk open aggression, fighting and hunting live pray...I can promise you, Camp herc and lig Majors and workers in a mature colony are a formidible ant!

[marc.tulley]

cool thats nice to hear, thanks matey
makes sense too learn something new and interesting all the time about these ants!
Ill just use my spare ligni in my new log nest then

[kashmir79]

very impressive there


i saw that pick of you ligniperdas in the same tube ? but wont your ligniperda queens kill each other ? i thought they where an ant that has 1 queen only.


correct me if im wrong

[JimmyVe]

In rare cases you could have more queens but when the workers come the most of the time kill one queen.

[marc.tulley]

yeah they were happy together for a week or 2 then had a 'falling out' so i seperated them

[marc.tulley]

i have put 2 dishes and a thin wood stump in there too

[ratgreen]

wow very nice, is it attached to the bottom by anyway as i am sure i would nock it over quite a lot and what did you do to the top branches i cant tell.

[SteveUK28]

Sound marc.. More pics when u add the ants please

[marc.tulley]

The top cutoff point on the left is a deeeeep hole covered over with brass mesh so i can add water in and i made it really deep to cut the weight down a touch

the top middle cutoff point has mirror perspex over it for placing food and so the platform will be 'wipe clean' able.

the base is set in place by 1 bit of 12mm dowel and 2 wood screws
it is VERY secure

[4mykids]

That would take first place in any art or ant exhibit

[marc.tulley]

thanks buddy

[marc.tulley]

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can some one try this webcam link to see if it works
I was tinkering with my webcam today and tryed to get
ANTCAM LIVE on the go

its my rubra in there new corky home

i moved them into the small cork formicarium because 3 huge homemade
beastly formicariums are just too much for my tiny room

love the little cork thing though.
Great visibilty and it is soooo neat n tidy

[JimmyVe]

Your webcam is doing fine.

You keep them in a cork nest now ? Don't forget to keep it moist, they like it.

[marc.tulley]

ok thanks for the feedback
webcam broke this afternoon , but at least it works
yeah they seem very happy in their very moist cork home