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@foxtheantkeeper
Starting up just a few more test tubes to determine the strongest inhabitants for my terrarium. Three tetramorium and one pheidole. Two tetras are looking really strong so far. One invested all of her resources into a single major nanitic, and the pheidole hasn’t had any eggs hatch yet, though she did lose her wings so I have my fingers crossed that they will be developing quickly soon.
I love this little orange buggers and can’t wait to see them flourish.
I like when Pheidole ants do the thing with the head
The local phiedole gals love some strawberry.
I'm going to have to put a strawberry plant in their out world I guess lol.
It's that time again!
It's raining ants again!
When ants die, a few days later they emit oleic acid, which tells the living ants to dispose of their corpse.
A myrmecologist named Ed Wilson discovered this and dropped the chemical on a living ant. It was immediately carried off, despite the fact that it was still moving, and clearly not dead.
“I’M GETTING BETTER”
Bring out your dead. Eh, close enough.
IM NOT YET DEAD SIR
You left out the part where the ant, believing HERSELF to be dead, stayed in self imposed exile in the ant graveyard until the acid wore off and she realized she was not supposed to be in the ant graveyard.
@finite-experience, this seems like the sort of thing you’d like to see
Ant 1: To the ant graveyard with you
Ant 2: But I’m not dead
Ant 1: You smell dead
Ant 2: Fair enough
Ant 1: “I thought you were dead.”
Ant 2, after acid wears off: “I got better.”
Ant 2, returning to the colony: i lived bitch
I need to dig through a massive pile of old cell phone pictures, but back in 2015, some ants (which I never uploaded to iNat because I hadn’t started using it yet!) were using my apartment as their graveyard. They snuck in through a crack in my window, and dropped their fallen sisters off the edge of my windowsill… onto my desk. I had a pile of dead ants all over my computer. I caught them doing it, too! [link to crappy old video on twitter]
August 12, 2019
The Pheidole gals got their first major and I'm so excited! This means they're doing well and eating right. I can't wait until they grow more so that I can put them in a proper formicarium~~
Don't think so @critter-stories. Got it off thingiverse. It does look a lot like his, but it is slightly different internally I believe.
Moved the Pheidole colony in to a clean test tube. Their old one had a bit of a mold problem so they needed to move.
They're also not really eating anything any more. I've tried cricket leg, oats, seeds, fruit, and a couple other things and they just don't seem to like any of it. Anyone know of better foods for them?
Looks pretty good for my first print in half a year. Still need to tweak the nozzle height and bed leveling but otherwise I'm pretty ok with this. Now I just need to slap some plexiglass on the top of it and make a proper lid to keep it dark inside.
Remembered I have a 3D printer, so I'm gonna print my own formicarium for the camponodus ladies. Looks like a nice copy of the AntsCanada one so I hope it'll be suitable.
After this one I'm going to print a compact formicarium for the raspberry crazies. They need to get out of that test tube soon lol.
My Camponotus test tube has become quite packed! The ants are super big and very active, and I think in the coming week I'm going to try to build them a proper terrarium to move in to!
That queen is just so huge though. It's a delight watching these gals move about and share food. They're actually putting a lot of effort in to tunneling through the cotton ball at the end. I have swapped it out once already, but as you can see they're already about a third the way through the new one.
AAAAAAAA I went on vacay for a week and got back to find 3 of the queens have produced their first nanitics!!! The first two are Tetramorium, but I have no idea what the last one is. I was originally thinking raspberry crazy ant, but I am really not sure. If anyone has any ideas let me know.
Found a Lasius something queen walking around at the pool. Decided to add her to my collection, but I'm really not sure where I'm gonna put her lol.
I found their new hidey hole! There are actually several areas where brood is kept now.
Distributing my first queens to a local who wanted to start Antkeeping. It's weird giving away these gals but I simply don't have enough terrariums for all of them.
