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How to hibernate naturalistic ant vivariums

Started By MegaMyrmex , Nov 9 2017 4:02 PM

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#1 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted November 9 2017 - 4:02 PM

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I want to make a naturalistic ant vivarium for a crematogastdr queen I jave but how do you hibernate them? Do you just bring the terrarium outside?
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Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
    consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
    and gathers its food at harvest.

 

#2 Offline FeedTheAnts - Posted November 9 2017 - 4:22 PM

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This is a good question. For me, I just put my terrarium anywhere that is cold(a garage). Putting it outside would need some preparation, probably just putting it on top of a blanket in a box, then stuffing some insulating material on the sides and putting the whole thing where it will not get rained on. Bear in mind that this all has a lot to do with how cold it gets where you live.


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#3 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted November 9 2017 - 4:35 PM

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Ooh, good point right there. Also, are C. Cerasi, ashmeadi, and other north american species arboreal?

Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
    consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
    and gathers its food at harvest.

 

#4 Offline T.C. - Posted November 9 2017 - 5:43 PM

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I put mine in the garage.


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#5 Offline Chicken_eater100 - Posted November 9 2017 - 5:49 PM

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I put mine in the garage.

at first I thought you said 'I out mine in the garbage.'

#6 Offline drtrmiller - Posted November 9 2017 - 6:15 PM

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There was once a user in chat who was said to have wrapped his ants in a blanket and stuck them in a freezer. I think that was the last we ever heard of him.

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#7 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted November 9 2017 - 7:17 PM

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There was once a user in chat who was said to have wrapped his ants in a blanket and stuck them in a freezer. I think that was the last we ever heard of him.

LOL! Rookie ant-keeper mistake!

 

Ooh, good point right there. Also, are C. Cerasi, ashmeadi, and other north american species arboreal?

They can be, but do not need to. The only C. cerasi colonies I've ever seen were in year-old leaf litter.


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#8 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted November 9 2017 - 7:25 PM

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There was once a user in chat who was said to have wrapped his ants in a blanket and stuck them in a freezer. I think that was the last we ever heard of him.

LOL! Rookie ant-keeper mistake!

Ooh, good point right there. Also, are C. Cerasi, ashmeadi, and other north american species arboreal?

They can be, but do not need to. The only C. cerasi colonies I've ever seen were in year-old leaf litter.
I want to try keeping them arboreally(if that's even a word) but anyone got tips regarding this species on how to?

Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
    consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
    and gathers its food at harvest.

 

#9 Offline T.C. - Posted November 9 2017 - 8:40 PM

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There was once a user in chat who was said to have wrapped his ants in a blanket and stuck them in a freezer. I think that was the last we ever heard of him.


Haha, yeah I remember hearing about that. To this day, I wonder what in the world he was thinking.

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#10 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted November 10 2017 - 7:15 AM

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There was once a user in chat who was said to have wrapped his ants in a blanket and stuck them in a freezer. I think that was the last we ever heard of him.

LOL! Rookie ant-keeper mistake!

Ooh, good point right there. Also, are C. Cerasi, ashmeadi, and other north american species arboreal?

They can be, but do not need to. The only C. cerasi colonies I've ever seen were in year-old leaf litter.
I want to try keeping them arboreally(if that's even a word) but anyone got tips regarding this species on how to?

 

Try cutting off a slab of tree bark with some wood still on it. Let it sit outside over the winter to gather some moisture & fungus, and carve out a chamber inside. Put your queen in the chamber, and plug the exit hole with a tiny bit of cotton. Remove the hole when the first workers arrive.

I would recommend moving your queen into the terrarium next year. Just have her hibernate in a tube.

It's not like you can stick an entire tree in a terrarium. Those crematogaster species you listed will nest in old termite galleries (if they have to, they normally nest in leaf litter/soil). They're not like the foreign Crematogaster species (they don't build off of a tree, they build in it.


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#11 Offline dspdrew - Posted November 11 2017 - 4:22 PM

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There was once a user in chat who was said to have wrapped his ants in a blanket and stuck them in a freezer. I think that was the last we ever heard of him.


Haha, yeah I remember hearing about that. To this day, I wonder what in the world he was thinking.

 

Got to keep them cold, but not too cold. That's what the blanket was for. :lol:


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