anything new guys? I think tetramorium are flying currently, have found two queens in the past two days, one of em was getting beat up pretty bad by some other ants and she had some mites so i had to brush her down with a soft bristle toothbrush and now she's being quarantined for good measure, hope yall are having some luck. i also don't plan on keeping more than maybe three Sp. so if anybody is interested in Pennsylvannicus or tetramorium let it be known, only cost would be to cover the test tube id be giving you them in.
At first I thought tetramorium were lame, but I grew an appreciation for them after watching an antscanada video.
They're like piranhas haha.
I haven't seen anything, but haven't been looking that hard either. My bed always sounds better than looking for ants in the morning.
My evenings after the kids go to bed are usually swamped with various online hobby reselling activities, picking, packing and shipping stuff.
As silly as it sounds, I honestly don't know where I'd put a colony right now even though they only take the space of a test tube early on.
Was still hoping to find a queen to kind of force myself to make space for them.
We're heading to the river, whitlocks area, this weekend for a week and I'm hoping against all odds to find a Pogonomyrmex queen since their mounds are abundant there.
Tetramorium has been my 2nd choice ever since watching that video. I even had one in my eBay cart, but decided not to buy for the aforementioned reasons.
If you end up having multiple fertile tetramorium, I would potentially be interested. I even have a bunch of empty antscanada test-tube from my fb marketplace find so I could trade you an empty for a queen one.
-I'd also throw in $20 since I was nearly willing to pay $30 to have one shipped to me + the reselling hobby will cover that.
-Not quite ready to commit though, so don't hold it for me. If anyone else is interested, give them first dibs.
