ANTSTORE World of Ants

[marc.tulley]

ok update on my colonies
both lasius niger and the nylanderi have been freed
the myrmica rubra have moved into the 11mm cork nest antstore sell
and my ligniperda colony in the tree are still 1 worker 1 queen but finally have 4 well developed pupae

The other ligniperda in the boxy formicarium are churning out ants frequently , the were 6 workers a month ago but are now 13.
cant beat lobbing a twitchy cricket in there and watching my only major worker, suitably named 'soldier boy' go mental at whatever i through in there

[ratgreen]

lol soldier boy, why did you set them free! i know people who would have wanted the nylanderi, but oh well,keep it up.

[SteveUK28]

u set the nylanderi free in this country?????????

[marc.tulley]

well i wasnt going to make an overseas trip especially
well there still in the glass ant farm in the garden if any 1 REALLY wants them im sure there still there, i can check, not till after my last exam on wednesday though
This degree isnt leaving me much free time at the mo

[miszt]

marc please see this thread

http://www.antstore.net/viewtopic.php?t=8661

[tail__]

But nylanderi are native in UK. In Hyperlinks sind nur für registrierte Nutzer sichtbar
it is on the list, notice the proper scientific name of this species for a few years is TEMNOTHORAX nylanderi.

[ashhad1]

well i never saw any nylanderi in the uk

[tail__]

Leptothorax/Temnothorax are usually hard to spot, and this species can be rare, but for sure it is not alien.

[miszt]

But nylanderi are native in UK. In Hyperlinks sind nur für registrierte Nutzer sichtbar
it is on the list, notice the proper scientific name of this species for a few years is TEMNOTHORAX nylanderi.

thats not the point, the species is not the only issue when bringing an animal from another country, if you read the information on that thread you will see this

any animal that comes from another country is Alien, regardless of whether or not the species lives nativly in the country

[kashmir79]

plus foreign native ants can carry diseases.

[Spore]

Nylanderi only live in certan parts of the UK. But i don't see how letting them free could harm the local enviroment (apart from what Kashmir79 said).

[ashhad1]

Another reason why its wrong could be that the ant doesnt live in his area of britain. So it would still be alien in his region plus wat kashmir said

[miszt]

Nylanderi only live in certan parts of the UK. But i don't see how letting them free could harm the local enviroment (apart from what Kashmir79 said).

that sentence doesnt make any sense, u agree that there is a problem, but it isnt a problem?

Its a very real problem, one we must be very careful about

Think about the Human species, Homo sapiens, there are diseases around the world that will easily kill someone from for eg. the USA but not someone from SE Asia, the same principal applies to animals, animals can carry disease without being killed by it, its only when it gets into another animal who has no natrual protection against it that things get out of hand, and it also applies intra-species aswell, AID's is an extreme example of how bad this can become, it spread from Monkeys in Africa, within a few decades, to become one of the biggest epidemics the world has seen in our history

[SteveUK28]

I give up.. some people just dont get it.. And if they continue they will soon wonder why our eco system is in such a shambles and why every day ants like lasius niger become a rare ant.

[ashhad1]

and why the uk government wont let us ship or get ants from different countries. I mean the government will make this alot mroe strict and hopefully we wont end up like the USA and the fireants...