ANTSTORE World of Ants

[ashhad1]

nice
i either use blutack or just good old cello tape (works only with ants which dont have strong jaws)
But the lighter idea is good

[Kale^^]

Herculeanus queens.


A major worker of Camponotus Herculeanus sooo cool

[SteveUK28]

Kale.. do u still have them queens.. if so what u doing with them all ?

[Kale^^]

Yes, i have them, I'm thinking of selling them. I don't need so many Herculeanus colonies (already got 2 colonies over 30workers). If nobody wants to buy them until next summer i may release some back to the wild.

[kashmir79]

whats your biggest colony ? with majors and ill buy them off you pal

[Kale^^]

As these messages may been quite misleading, i am only selling queens (0-2 workers).

[Kale^^]

New pic's;

[ashhad1]

ive never kept messor barbarus before but doesnt that seem like there are way to many seeds in there?

[Kale^^]

Well i just put quite a pile in the arena, and all the seeds they got, they have dragged in themselves..

[KiamCameron]

lol i have two test tubes filled with grass seeds and the colony is 30-40 workers i think they just trying to seal them up

[Kale^^]

Camponotus herculeanus colony, in the pic about 39 ants (incl. queen) and in the tube leading to the out world there were 11 ants. So that makes ~50 ants. I'm happy since this colony's queen is only 1 year old.

[Kale^^]

Some lasius niger eating half a cricket

[ashhad1]

Nice pictures
I cant take pics of this quality of my lasius niger cuz there too small for my cam lol

[JimmyVe]

ive never kept messor barbarus before but doesnt that seem like there are way to many seeds in there?

They store most of there seeds first before they make ant brood out of it.
My colony (you can find pictures of it in the dutch part of the forum) have about 3 rooms where they put there seeds. I only give them new seeds if one of them is almost empty.

[ashhad1]

Ah ok that good info because im getting messor barbarus tmoz or soon
too,