Roberta was found near her sisters immobile and with very little life left and no front legs, she sadly then died in my hand.

She may have been born a little different but she had a big impact on me, even if she's "just an ant".

She managed to live almost two weeks, i was very excited about her surviving this long but i guess things didn't go as well as i thought.

I would like to know if yall had some empathy towards some of your workers in particular like in this case, if you had any similar story.

But overall

She will be missed, but rest assured her colony will live on in her memory.

Rest in piece

Caught a pair of ants doing this. It looks like an adult ant dragging a newborn back to the brood. It looked pretty comical which is why im posting it but what exactly is happening here? Thanks!

I got interested in the hobby too late to catch a queen, but have been doing my research in preparation for the coming Spring. Seeing as winter is coming & those of you in temperate climates are getting ready for diapause, I'd like to take advantage and get some opinions on the process.

I'm in Connecticut & plan on raising locals, with Lasius neoniger & Camponotus pennsylvanicus being my focal species

My plan would be to put the ants in an unheated indoor area in mid October & move to the fridge once overnight lows average in the mid 30sF, then put them back into the unheated area after the brutal cold has subsided & temps again average mid 30s overnight

Questions:

1 is this a good plan?

2 Is there any sort of "prep" needed before placing them in the fridge? For example, I saw one video where the guy wrapped the colony in bubble wrap

3 Does the colony need to be fed once in the fridge?

Mijn gedachte is formica fusca, grauwzwarte renmier maar niet zeker, ondertussen leuke colonie +-15 werkers zeker kleine snelle meisjes

I'm based out of South Texas and I found an Atta texana queen for the first time which has always been my dream species. Unfortunately, it doesn't have it's fungal pellet. It has a clutch of eggs but I don't see anything else. I'm looking for another South Texas ant keeper with an Atta texana colony that would be kind enough to donate fungus to me. I know this is a long shot but I'm pretty desperate at this point.

Trying to find good sellers.

This website has been coming out on my searches for a few months now but it seems super sus. Has anyone heard of it before? https://americanantstore.com/

Hi there, ive been keeping a red giant harvester ant colony for over a year, theyre great! But I wanna rehouse them into a better colony since the water has run out in the tubes for a second time and unlike the first time i replenished said watere theres close to 100 workers. theyve pulled one of their dry plugs that held water back and are nesting in the spot where water was in one tube with brood. I basically am asking for recommendations of ant nests i can get online that are reliable, especially for my large girls. I really do not wanna deal with those crappy amazon ones. I got one for a s invicta colony and they mold insanely easy. Thanks for your time, looking forward to posting more.

Gotta love the semi-transparent workers, finally started heating them so I'm now expecting some growth

These were the best photos I was able to get but does this look like it’s molding? My campo sansabeanus colony keeps using this corner of their mini hearth to dump trash. There’s about 50 ants in there all cramped up on the opposite side so I don’t know why they are dumping in the nest. If it is mold should I pop them in the fridge for a few minutes then clean it real quick? Thanks in advance.

Hi so I had a colony of colobopsis truncata and they have been doing great but cause I need them to have as little stress as possible I had put wood(that I had put in the oven) in the test tube and the colobopsis colony had moved in but now I think there is mold is this mold help me I dont know if it is mold how I will even move the colony. There will be pictures of the living area and the potential mold.

I caught the termites in some woods in Houston, Texas, USA and I'd like to be able to add 20-30 to each of my colonies outworlds so that the ants can catch/consume them as needed.

Don’t have picture but a weird ant showed up in my yard is golden goes insane when it try to give them food just look like a average ant shape make nests that look like cones any idea what they are

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To preface, I am NOT an ant keeper. I was setting up a new aquarium and a packet of beneficial bacteria came with the sand I was using.

The packet was very much sealed, and contained liquid bacteria. Keep in mind that I've had this sand for weeks now and have not used it until today. I poured the liquid bacteria into my tank, and guess who came out of it?

She did. Not out of the sand, out of the LIQUID BACTERIA PACKET. This ant survived weeks in a tiny sealed packet of waste bacteria. It MUST have superpowers now... I don't decide the rules. Mutant ant or something, idk.

I am NOT an ant keeper but I cannot bring myself to kill her—she has survived so much. But since she is likely from across the country (U.S.), she is not native to my state and cannot be released.

I think she may be a Myrmica queen, but I am no expert. I have no idea what to do! I live with others that would not appreciate me having an enclosure of stinging ants.

Help please 🥲. For my sake and for hers

My carpenter ants don’t seem to like meal worms. Previously I fed them whatever I found, including flies mosquitoes and roaches. All of which they really like. But I didn’t want to keep feeding wild caught so bought a meal worm colony. Unfortunately I am not going to spend more money so meal worms it is.

How to make the meal worms more tasty? I have tried leaving live prey, cutting in small parts, dipping in water, etc.

I haven’t smushed them up. That might be what I do next

I’m in the US looking to get an ant farm for my son. I’m fine buying the ants separately but want to get a good ant farm. Does anyone have any recommendations?? Thank you!

Growth of the Sunfall Legion is getting a little scary lol. They have maxed the first test tube out and started filling the 2nd. The outworld has alot of activity I just got it too but Iam thinking of upgrading. I can either order the larger tarheel forging area which will take 3 weeks and honestly Iam not sure if its worth its price or I can go ahead with prepping the 20 gal tank I have. Ill drop a video of the outworld in the comments.

Any guess to how many are here?

My leaf cutters removed a piece of fungus. The 2nd picture is last night the first is today. Im assuming it went bad. But now im curious does the rest of the fungus look healthy or is just coloration from the food recently added to grow it?