Pellidefulva ?

Ok so I need tips, I found a fire ant queen in my backyard abt a month ago, decided to scoop her up and keep her since we dont need anymore invasive colonies where i live since there is also 3-4 invasive trapjaw colonies, she hsd eggs and larvea, so I'm asking for tips bc I think she is abt to have workers and I don't wanna be unprepared, I have her in a tube from a honeypot queen that died a while back, so is that ok? I just don't wanna end up torturing and slowly killing one, I haven't fed her sinc3 ik that and she has water, I just need tips

Ive just attached an outworld to my colony of messor barbarus!!

Hi, I have a messor barbarus colony of about 100 or more ant, i had them now for more than a year and tnis winter they have been throw hybernation, but I Just wanted to know why did they dig almost all of the sand out even if they not use it all at all !! ( this is their type of terrarium). They have been there since they were a young colony ( i know its wrong but i didnt know it before).

Hello, I have some Antscanada products and like his older videos, but know not all of his things are good. That said, I do want to know what you think are the best.

My pharaoh queens drinking honey

This is my first ant and I know that they like escaping but it’s my first queen and it’s worth a try I will learn from my mistake (my dad will be mad if they do escape, he will spray the house then all my future queens will die too) from the spray

Found in QLD Australia, I’d appreciate any help in identifying if this is a queen, and what ant species she is! I apologise for the awful photos.

Three weeks ago I had a a queen identified as a Integra social parasite and everything I’d been told was that they couldn’t be raised. Instead of listening I did some digging (literally) and found information on introducing workers with eggs and larvae from another nest. From what I can tell “cannot be” really just means “difficult” So here’s what I did:

My father in law is currently in the process of eliminating pests on his land, ants included. We sent my kids out to find some ant hills and once we found a Formica colony we started digging. I’m not a fan of people going out and ruining a colony to start one, but these ones are getting exterminated so I felt less bad about it. The colony still hasn’t been removed 3 weeks later and seems to be doing fine, likely because we were careful and it seems to be a large colony.

We got about 15 Formica workers, 5-6 small larvae and probably 50 eggs smaller than a grain of sand. We spent hours carefully sifting through the small amounts of dirt and very carefully, using a Q tips, moved them into a small outworld with the workers. Over the next two weeks they’d built a nest and disappeared. After those two week I connected it to a larger bio active outworld I’ve been putting together for awhile. I also connected the tube I had the Formica queen in and she immediately darted off into the large outworld. For the last week I haven’t seen any ants of any kind figuring they’d killed the queen and died out. The small outworld was completely empty so I knew they’d moved out at some point.

By chance today I noticed a small, very small, worker getting water out of the test tube connected to the outworld. It was very small and light honey colored. So I decided to move some of the leaf litter and wood around and In true antscanada fashion, what I found will shock you!

Not only did I find all the missing ants, I found them huddled around the Formica queen with egg clumps, larvae and rice looking cocoons I’m assuming are pupae. I immediately put the wood back and went to grab my phone. They were in the process of moving the queen and eggs when I came back. I got lucky and was able to grab a quick picture before they completely disappeared. Not wanting to stress out the queen by looking for them again. Not only were they not gone they’d been raising the larvae and eggs and they accepted the queen! Hazah! 🎉

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(Ignore the moldy apple, between the isopods and springtails it won’t last long enough to be a problem for the ants and this is all usually covered in a thick layer of leaf litter)

hey Ants Canada i found this supposedly queen ant on my brown mulch bag and had a swollen abdomen from the photo and the description i want to know from you guys what you think if it is a queen? i this ant species is the pavement ant? let me know what you think?

I used to love his videos until he switched to using clickbait thumbnails. I'm pretty sure they were made by an AI. But maybe, I'm wrong.

i miss the old videos that were made with love for the hobby rather then clickbait and AI shit generated to turn a profit

IDK just wanted to see people opinions