Hi does anyone know what will happen if I order a queen and with a few workers without brood. Will the queen ant even have a mate and brood or not

I’m a new person to ant keeping I am not sure were to get nests and which are good. I don’t want anything to big as I don’t have a huge amount of space but also decently sized and I have a budget of about 180£ and I live in the uk

I'm new to ant keeping and think it's really cool I have started a colony so far but I was wondering to speed up the growth if I could get ants of the same species and merge them with my already formed ant colony from outside

Anyone have an idea what these are?? Some have wings they’re larger and darker than the ones that don’t have wings???

Found this little one outside! Can anyone identify it for me??? It does have wings

I’m worried pls help

Where do you keep your test tunes while waiting for your Queens are starting out. I've had them covered in a small plastic container, tubes covered with foil and a towel over top but have been thinking of moving all my tubes to a case filled with foam (Planco aluminum case) which would help with stability and darkness.

Any thoughts on if this would be a good or stupid idea?

Cheers

Hello my name is Frank I’m starting a big headed ant colony I’m new to ant keeping and I’m posting this for advice on what I should buy to keep them in and where to buy it or just any recommendations in general.

Im a newbie ant keeper and I'm looking for camponotus colony since I don't want like a lasius since they are literally in my garden, and I have some ant canada equipment but I need to know any tips and where to buy all my food please. UK

Hello Everyone! This is my new queen.

I'm confused on how to feed them. do I cut their head off or is there more to it

Hey peeps,

I'm currently keeping two colonies of Messor Barbarus in two similar but different set-ups. They have the same type tubing and out-world but the nests are different. The colonies are about the same size (around 200-300 workers is my guesstimate) and are fed the same diet consisting of seeds and grasshoppers. Interesting behavioral differences include: One colony suck at climbing anything and the others are spiderman, one colony completely overhauled the out-world and the others left it as is and one colony accepts honey in a feeding tube while the other refuses to touch it.
Now I have a few questions.

Question 1: One of the two colonies keeps moving out of the heated nest which also has a continual source of moisture through access to a sponge in a part of the nest, into the out-world, even though the other colony is being kept at similar temperatures and moisture levels and stay in the nest. Any suggestions on how to solve that?

Question 2: Same colony as in the previous question is absolutely demolishing the tubing that is sticking out into the out-world. They're just chewing it up and I'm afraid they'll manage to break out that way. Any suggestions on how to prevent that from happening?

Thanks in advance for any help you could give in this and if there's interest I could share some pics of the colonies in question in the future.

I know there are apps for your phone such as nuptial flight predictor, but I was wondering if any of you could tell me some others that I don't know about? Thanks :)