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, Oct 30 2024 8:10 AM
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Posted October 30 2024 - 8:10 AM
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Currently keeping:
1x Formica subsericea, (used to be polygynous) 15+ workers with 4 pupa (Idk why they still have)
1x Lasius umbratus, (Workers accepted) 5+ workers with host brood
1x Ponera pennsylvanica, just queen
As you watch your ants march, remember: every journey begins with a single step (or queen)-not just towards you, but towards a future woven by diligence and shared dreams - Me
(I lost braincells just to make this quote)
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Posted October 30 2024 - 8:33 AM
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I want to know what food will attract ant queens
You won’t really catch any queens using food.
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Posted October 30 2024 - 11:00 AM
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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.
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.
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Posted October 31 2024 - 7:56 AM
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I want to know what food will attract ant queens
You won’t really catch any queens using food.
Indeed. You don't hunt deer by leaving apples in your yard. You go out into the woods and shoot them.
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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:
Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea
Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra
Myrmica sp.
Lasius neoniger, brevicornis
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Posted October 31 2024 - 5:31 PM
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the best food is a UV light.
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Posted October 31 2024 - 7:23 PM
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Queen ants don't really go for food sources during nuptial flights because their main instinct in a nuptial flight is to mate, hide and create a colony. Going after food risks getting eaten yourself. Semi-claustral queens would prefer to find shelter first because when you are lost in the wild, finding shelter is a bigger priority than food. Even if you leave food for those queens to find, it's much much much more likely that food will be taken by something else first.
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Posted October 31 2024 - 9:33 PM
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Indeed. You don't hunt deer by leaving apples in your yard. You go out into the woods and shoot them.
Only when the warden isn't around...
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Posted November 1 2024 - 5:35 AM
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Indeed. You don't hunt deer by leaving apples in your yard. You go out into the woods and shoot them.
Only when the warden isn't around...
LOL 
the whole reason I made this post is because of how I wanted to see if I can make a non lethal “alate trap” made out of a wasp trap but now that I know that there is no type of food or smell that attracts queens makes this plan go to waste
(and pleas don’t say “try a UV light trap”
Currently keeping:
1x Formica subsericea, (used to be polygynous) 15+ workers with 4 pupa (Idk why they still have)
1x Lasius umbratus, (Workers accepted) 5+ workers with host brood
1x Ponera pennsylvanica, just queen
As you watch your ants march, remember: every journey begins with a single step (or queen)-not just towards you, but towards a future woven by diligence and shared dreams - Me
(I lost braincells just to make this quote)
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Posted November 1 2024 - 6:21 AM
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Why no UV light trap? Also you can find queens in pools or under streetlights.LOLIndeed. You don't hunt deer by leaving apples in your yard. You go out into the woods and shoot them.
Only when the warden isn't around...
the whole reason I made this post is because of how I wanted to see if I can make a non lethal “alate trap” made out of a wasp trap but now that I know that there is no type of food or smell that attracts queens makes this plan go to waste
(and pleas don’t say “try a UV light trap”
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Posted November 1 2024 - 7:54 AM
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Indeed. You don't hunt deer by leaving apples in your yard. You go out into the woods and shoot them.
Only when the warden isn't around...
*Assuming every single suburban house with an apple tree is within close proximity to a habitat plentiful in deer, good point.
"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:
Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea
Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra
Myrmica sp.
Lasius neoniger, brevicornis
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Posted November 1 2024 - 10:31 AM
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LOLWhy no UV light trap? Also you can find queens in pools or under streetlights.
the whole reason I made this post is because of how I wanted to see if I can make a non lethal “alate trap” made out of a wasp trap but now that I know that there is no type of food or smell that attracts queens makes this plan go to waste
(and pleas don’t say “try a UV light trap”
I obviously know that because of how those words always find a way into posts
Currently keeping:
1x Formica subsericea, (used to be polygynous) 15+ workers with 4 pupa (Idk why they still have)
1x Lasius umbratus, (Workers accepted) 5+ workers with host brood
1x Ponera pennsylvanica, just queen
As you watch your ants march, remember: every journey begins with a single step (or queen)-not just towards you, but towards a future woven by diligence and shared dreams - Me
(I lost braincells just to make this quote)
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Posted November 1 2024 - 10:59 AM
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Well other than those methods I can’t think of any other way of catching a queen.I obviously know that because of how those words always find a way into postsWhy no UV light trap? Also you can find queens in pools or under streetlights.LOL
the whole reason I made this post is because of how I wanted to see if I can make a non lethal “alate trap” made out of a wasp trap but now that I know that there is no type of food or smell that attracts queens makes this plan go to waste
(and pleas don’t say “try a UV light trap”
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Posted November 1 2024 - 1:19 PM
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It would have to be a pheromone isolate. you would mostly get males though IMO.
it could theoretically attract parasitic species, by emitting the odor of their host queen, but that's a waste of time, and you'd get way more with the light.
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