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Expensive Ants: Ant Keeping Depot

Started By Antkeeper01 , Sep 12 2020 5:18 AM

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#1 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted September 12 2020 - 5:18 AM

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So I was looking at A.K.D yesterday and I wondered how many ant were for sale and how many have been sold, at first I was thinking:  ,Expensive,Expensive,Expensive,Expensive. And then I noticed some... overpriced ants, trap jaw ant colony(5-10 workers) for 600 USD. Isn't that a little expensive?

 

Edit: extremely expensive?


1X Pogonomyrmex occidentalis 40-50 Workers

1X Solenopsis molesta 10 Workers (mono)

Ants I Want: Crematogaster sp, Camponotus Sp., Ponera Pennsylvanica, Mymercocystus sp.

 

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#2 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted September 12 2020 - 5:40 AM

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Yeah but it doesn’t really matter for us since no one in the US can buy them legally. Even if someone here wanted to buy some illegally they wouldn’t sell them to them.

Edited by Kaelwizard, September 12 2020 - 5:42 AM.

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#3 Offline BlueLance213 - Posted September 12 2020 - 5:46 AM

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Man, even for me to get those imported to the UK wouldn't cost anywhere near as much as that XD


#4 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 12 2020 - 10:57 AM

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So I was looking at A.K.D yesterday and I wondered how many ant were for sale and how many have been sold, at first I was thinking:  ,Expensive,Expensive,Expensive,Expensive. And then I noticed some... overpriced ants, trap jaw ant colony(5-10 workers) for 600 USD. Isn't that a little expensive?

 

Edit: extremely expensive?

You can't get them in Colorado anyways. Those are all Australian.


#5 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted September 12 2020 - 3:48 PM

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I know I just wanted to see.


1X Pogonomyrmex occidentalis 40-50 Workers

1X Solenopsis molesta 10 Workers (mono)

Ants I Want: Crematogaster sp, Camponotus Sp., Ponera Pennsylvanica, Mymercocystus sp.

 

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#6 Offline zantezaint - Posted September 12 2020 - 4:47 PM

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Exactly what I said about the Mona Lisa painting.


Edited by zantezaint, September 12 2020 - 4:47 PM.

https://www.formicul...ale-california/

 

4 x Solenopsis xyloni (Fire ant) colonies.

2 x Veromessor andrei (Seed-harvester ant) colonies.

19 x Pogonomyrmex subnitidus (Seed-harvester ant) colonies + 3 x Pogonomyrmex (ID uncertain) colonies

16 x Linepithema humile (Argentine ant) colonies.

1 x Unknown Formicidae colony.

1 x Tapinoma sessile (Odorous house ant) colony.

1 x Camponotus fragilis (Carpenter/wood ant) colony + 1 x Camponotus sansabeanus (Carpenter/wood ant) colony.

1 x Solenopsis molesta (Thief ant) colony.

#7 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted September 12 2020 - 7:25 PM

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To bluntly answer the topic’s main question: YES, YES, YES.
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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#8 Offline ANTdrew - Posted September 13 2020 - 3:25 AM

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Seems beyond unwise to spend that much for a non-native colony that could very likely kick the bucket at any time.
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.
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