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Looks like we can buy ants now!

Started By Foogoo , Feb 3 2015 7:17 PM

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#1 Offline Foogoo - Posted February 3 2015 - 7:17 PM

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Not my picture. I wonder if there's a queen in there...

 

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#2 Offline BugFinder - Posted February 3 2015 - 7:49 PM

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Where did you buy them?


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#3 Offline William. T - Posted February 3 2015 - 8:03 PM

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Whoa.


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#4 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted February 3 2015 - 8:49 PM

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Look like small Myrmicinae... Maybe something invasive like Solenopsis invicta, Pheidole megacephala, or something new such as Monomorium destructor!!! :lol:


#5 Offline James C. Trager - Posted February 4 2015 - 4:38 AM

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Closer view available?


#6 Offline Crystals - Posted February 4 2015 - 8:23 AM

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I know you mentioned it wasn't your picture.  Which site did you find this on?  I did a quick search, but didn't find anything.

 

Ants hitch hiking isn't unusual, but this is the first time I have seen them in something like this.

 

Ants are more often found hitch hiking in plants, dirt, wood/wood chips, some electrical equipment, even occasionally in veggies and fruit.


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#7 Offline dean_k - Posted February 4 2015 - 9:34 AM

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I've come cross some private ant sellers who were willing to sell queens by letting them "hike" in packages, so I am not surprised.

 

In US and Canada, you cannot buy ant queens legally but that does not stop some to use such a smuggling method.


#8 Offline Crystals - Posted February 4 2015 - 10:21 AM

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I do plan on visiting a rather large exotic green house about 2 hours from me one day.

Maybe find a pretty plant, maybe even find one with a colony inside.  :D

 

I actually know of 2 people in Canada who bought plants and later found out they had hitch hikers.  The one lady got the local university to ID them (Solenopsis invicta), and since the university really wanted them (she wanted nothing to do with a stinging species,) she happily handed them over.


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#9 Offline William. T - Posted February 4 2015 - 12:50 PM

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In the U.S we could always buy ants.

 

http://antsgeorgia.yolasite.com/

 

Fancy a Solenopis Invicta colony?


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1 Lasius cf. Neoniger 30 workers

1 Camponotus sp. 15 workers

20 Tetramorium SpE 30 workers

1 T. Sessile 200 workers

 

#10 Offline Crystals - Posted February 4 2015 - 2:21 PM

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In the U.S we could always buy ants.

Buying wasn't so much the issue as shipping and transport.  Since queens in the US cannot be transported over the state borders.

If you plan to buy or sell within your state, then that is no problem.


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#11 Offline dean_k - Posted February 4 2015 - 3:52 PM

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I don't see how it could be enforced within USA though because I don't think they inspect domestic shipments that cross states and it's not like ant sellers are going to mark shipments as live ants. It is against the law, I know, but enforcing it is another matter.


#12 Offline William. T - Posted February 4 2015 - 4:06 PM

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In the U.S we could always buy ants.

Buying wasn't so much the issue as shipping and transport.  Since queens in the US cannot be transported over the state borders.

If you plan to buy or sell within your state, then that is no problem.

 

But selling S. Invicta, which is a major invasive species, is just spreading it. Besides, nowhere on the site says: "Georgia sales only."


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1 Lasius cf. Neoniger 30 workers

1 Camponotus sp. 15 workers

20 Tetramorium SpE 30 workers

1 T. Sessile 200 workers

 

#13 Offline Alza - Posted February 4 2015 - 7:10 PM

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Wait. you can ship ants within your state, LEGALLY ?


#14 Offline dspdrew - Posted February 4 2015 - 7:12 PM

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You can do it without breaking any Federal or State laws. How's that. :D


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#15 Offline Alza - Posted February 4 2015 - 7:22 PM

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so you could ship ants to me, LEGALLY


#16 Offline kellakk - Posted February 4 2015 - 7:39 PM

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But shipping ant queen beyond their native range is not recommended


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Current Species:
Camponotus fragilis

Novomessor cockerelli

Pogonomyrmex montanus

Pogonomyrmex rugosus

Manica bradleyi

 

 

#17 Offline Alza - Posted February 4 2015 - 7:41 PM

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how far of a distance is their native range ?


#18 Offline kellakk - Posted February 4 2015 - 7:42 PM

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It depends on the species.


Current Species:
Camponotus fragilis

Novomessor cockerelli

Pogonomyrmex montanus

Pogonomyrmex rugosus

Manica bradleyi

 

 

#19 Offline Alza - Posted February 4 2015 - 7:44 PM

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now I'm excited. 


#20 Offline kellakk - Posted February 4 2015 - 7:46 PM

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Why?  Drew won't ship, and I doubt many people would. 


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Novomessor cockerelli

Pogonomyrmex montanus

Pogonomyrmex rugosus

Manica bradleyi

 

 

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