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Started By eea , Jun 18 2021 4:44 PM
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#41 Offline eea - Posted September 7 2021 - 5:13 PM

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Wait so that worker died in ant shat? That really sucks.

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#42 Offline eea - Posted September 16 2021 - 7:09 PM

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the mini hearth arrived but the ants are treated the outworld as their nest lol

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#43 Offline TacticalHandleGaming - Posted September 16 2021 - 8:48 PM

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If you heat the opposite side from the water tower/clover the glass, they'll move down pretty quick. Another option is to blow air into the outworld. It'll make them want to find a more suitable place to nest.
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#44 Offline eea - Posted September 17 2021 - 4:24 PM

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If you heat the opposite side from the water tower/clover the glass, they'll move down pretty quick. Another option is to blow air into the outworld. It'll make them want to find a more suitable place to nest.

thanks it worked and now the colony is moved in, the queen seems to like hanging out on the ceiling and walls though.

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#45 Offline TacticalHandleGaming - Posted September 17 2021 - 5:50 PM

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That's normal. Most of my queens chill on the wall somewhere near the water towers.


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L. neoniger, P. occidentalis, C. modoc, C. novaeboracensis, C. vicinus, T. immigrans, A. occidentalis, S. molesta, P. imparis, M. kennedyi, M semirufus, F. pacifica, P. californica, M. ergatogyna.

 

Previously kept species

T. rugatulus, B. depilis.

 

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Myrmecocystus pyramicus, Myrmecocystus testaceus

Pheidole creightoni, Pheidole inquilina, Crematogaster coarctata, Crematogaster mutans

My youtube channel.  My ant Etsy store - Millennium Ants

#46 Offline eea - Posted January 10 2022 - 10:25 AM

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Oldest ants are starting to die off


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#47 Offline antsriondel - Posted January 10 2022 - 5:13 PM

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If you heat the opposite side from the water tower/clover the glass, they'll move down pretty quick. Another option is to blow air into the outworld. It'll make them want to find a more suitable place to nest.

thanks it worked and now the colony is moved in, the queen seems to like hanging out on the ceiling and walls though.

 

that's what my formica do


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#48 Offline eea - Posted February 14 2022 - 1:37 PM

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Queen laid a small bunch of eggs, also the colony had a big fat larva but for some reason it turned into a smaller larva that looks like a deflated banana  :(

 

Edit: nevermind it pupated  :facepalm:


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#49 Offline eea - Posted February 14 2022 - 2:18 PM

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never mind its dead


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#50 Offline Crazycow - Posted February 14 2022 - 2:26 PM

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RIP banana larva


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#51 Offline eea - Posted February 14 2022 - 2:40 PM

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yea the ants started rubbing it like crazy yesterday causing the larva to freak out and now its dead


#52 Offline eea - Posted March 5 2022 - 7:08 PM

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the ants have made another fat larva and are starting to rub it like the last one hope it doesn't die


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#53 Offline ANTdrew - Posted March 6 2022 - 11:47 AM

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Camponotus aren’t the brightest crayons in the box.
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#54 Offline azzaaazzzz00 - Posted March 6 2022 - 3:40 PM

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Camponotus workers: lets rub the larvae to show some love! *rub, rubb, rubbb, RUBBBBBBBBBBBB*

larvae: bleh *dies*

Camponotus workers: ........meh


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#55 Offline eea - Posted March 25 2022 - 11:23 AM

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a good chunk of the eggs have hatched but another larva has died of overweight, and now i have found mitse in the colony


#56 Offline azzaaazzzz00 - Posted March 25 2022 - 2:32 PM

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Do you know if the mights are harmful to the colony yet?


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Always try new things, even if its hard, hard is not impossible. We are smart and it's good to be smart but not too smart for your own good.

#57 Offline eea - Posted March 25 2022 - 3:20 PM

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Do you know if the mights are harmful to the colony yet?

I realised that they are not mites but I'm not sure if they can be harmful


#58 Offline azzaaazzzz00 - Posted March 25 2022 - 3:43 PM

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Do you have pics of them?


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#59 Offline eea - Posted March 25 2022 - 5:16 PM

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No.


#60 Offline eea - Posted April 16 2022 - 8:43 AM

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two larvae finally pupated but one of them is like 1/4 the size of the other one


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