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Hello from Indiana

Started By Witmen , Apr 16 2017 2:07 PM

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#1 Offline Witmen - Posted April 16 2017 - 2:07 PM

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Hello everyone! I haven't kept ants since I was a kid with a department store ant farm, but I am revisiting the hobby now, 20 some years later.  It all started with some YouTube videos a few months ago and now I'm hooked and my 10 year old son has also became very interested in it. Anything that can get him to spend more time away from video games is a great thing. So we are going to do as much research as possible, and hopefully get a colony or two started sometime this summer. 

 

thanks for having me!

 

 

 

 


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#2 Offline Aaron567 - Posted April 16 2017 - 2:15 PM

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Welcome to Formiculture!  :)


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#3 Offline Klassien - Posted April 16 2017 - 2:23 PM

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Welcome! Great to see you're getting into the hobby again and that your son is interested in it too! I'm from Northern Indiana myself :) 

Glad to have you here!


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#4 Offline Witmen - Posted April 16 2017 - 2:35 PM

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Welcome! Great to see you're getting into the hobby again and that your son is interested in it too! I'm from Northern Indiana myself :)

Glad to have you here!

 

Hello fellow Hoosier, thanks for the welcome! I am in Delaware County Indiana and am looking forward to queen catching season. I'll be sure to let you know if I ever have more queens than I can handle and please do the same for me. Perhaps we can do some trading or selling in the future! 

 

Thanks again


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#5 Offline brian - Posted April 17 2017 - 12:31 AM

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Ya more Indiana people. Its nice to see I'm not the only newbie from the state trying to get started up in this cool new hobby.


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#6 Offline Martialis - Posted April 17 2017 - 5:59 AM

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Well.. there's quite a few people in Indiana now.


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#7 Offline brian - Posted April 17 2017 - 5:54 PM

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Well.. there's quite a few people in Indiana now.

That's great maybe we can get some queen trading and stuff up and running like all the cool California  kids. ;)


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#8 Offline Alabama Anter - Posted April 17 2017 - 7:00 PM

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Welcome from the deep south!


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#9 Offline Leo - Posted April 17 2017 - 7:09 PM

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hello from china


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#10 Offline Witmen - Posted April 18 2017 - 4:40 AM

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Thanks for the welcome everyone!

 

 

 

Well.. there's quite a few people in Indiana now.

That's great maybe we can get some queen trading and stuff up and running like all the cool California  kids. ;)

 

 

I would definitely be up for doing that! It's no fair for the California kids to have all the ant-trading fun. 

 

I'm currently looking into employing both the black light and swimming pool methods of catching queens and will use them in addition to walking around. My boy has a birthday coming up in the beginning of August and he has already said that he wants a queen and ant stuff for his presents. This is the first time in a few years that he hasn't asked for electronics or a video game so I'm really determined to not let him down. Even if that means buying a queen so he will have one in time for his birthday. 


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#11 Offline Martialis - Posted April 18 2017 - 6:14 AM

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I plan to sell colonies soon. Hopefully I can by then.


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#12 Offline Civz - Posted April 18 2017 - 8:18 AM

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welcome welcome =D


#13 Offline brian - Posted April 18 2017 - 8:25 AM

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I plan to sell colonies soon. Hopefully I can by then.


Looks like we all will be hitting you up when you do. ☺
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