myrmepropagandistShe is such a good mother! Five pupae now!
And still more larvae to go. She was very calm for the photos this time. #antqueen #carpenterant #antkeeping #petant
Queen ant update!
Her brood pile is the same size as her body almost. She has five larvae in silk pupae ready to grow up to be nanitics (in about two weeks)
She’s doing great living in the fountain pen drawer. #antqueen #ants #antkeeping #camponotus #nycants
It is unreasonable that any bug could be this cute! when I open the drawer she always carefully picks up her eggs. She’s holding the most mature larva and it’s silk cocoon in the first photo. I guess she’s ready to run and start over if needed. What an incredible mother.
If you look back through this thread you can see how far she's come!
#ants #antqueen #antkeeping #carpenterAnts #camponotus #camponotusPennsylvanicus
Queen update!
She has two larvae ready to spin their silk cocoons, and one that has already cocooned itself and started to pupate and mature. As a treat, I soaked a grain of bee pollen in a bit of sugar water and fed it to her. She seemed delighted with it, and I hope it made up for the bright lights of the photo session. Here she is eating her treat. (Better photos of the cocoon in the next post. ) #antkeeping #petant #ants #antqueen
Queen in a drawer. A test tube can seem like a small space for such a large, majestic insect, but this mimics what she would have built or found for herself in the wild, a narrow hollow under bark, a repurposed carpenter bee burrow, or a hole excavated with her own mandibles queen ants seal themselves in creating a space with no exit, total darkness and seclusion to maximize moisture and avoid discovery.
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Hey bug-lovers. A great new ant video just dropped from SyneAnts. He's just getting his channel going and the video has only 3 views. Why not stop by and say hi?
Ant keeping in NZ is kind of like "hard mode" for the hobby as the islands have only 11 native species due to the recent glacial past. It's a fascinating example of taxonomic radiation in action.
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Tetramorium grassii | Endless queen ants!
CamAyer #hormigueando capturé unas reinas de Pheidole pallidula, a ver si esta vez consigo que alguna me dé una colonia grande y hambrienta.
Si alguien en #Valladolid ciudad me ayuda con alguna pistita o consejo, por ejemplo por dónde hay más posibilidades, para conseguir reinas de las #hormigas Camponotus sp., especialmente Camponotus cruentatus, Formica rufibarbis o cualquiera que vuele estas fechas, se agradece.
Mi zona de caza suele ser por la facultad de Filosofía y alrededores, por si a alguien le interesa. Ahí he visto reinas y princesas de Camponotus cruentatus, C. aethiops, Pheidole pallidula, Crematogaster auberti, Lasius grandis…
(AVISO: mis identificaciones pueden ser imprecisas, no soy ningún experto)
EmilyBeen working on some outworlds (foraging areas) for some Pogonomyrmex ants. Made with a high heel shoe box, some custom 3D printed fittings, Ultracal 30 and some Arizona sand.
Sorry no banana for scale, but would fit inside for sure.
Yeah my carpenter ants need more space to explore… look at how they have slowly gnawed down this tube. So today I hooked up a new outworld for them. #antkeeping #happyants #ants #antposting
