Luv ur "outside food storage" (a.k.a hobbit house xD)

Nice video. Have been waiting for this one :)

Wow the quality is WAY over 5k subs you deserve at least 250k

Queens can take weeks to months to move locations. I suggest putting a cover on the new fresh test tube and a light that isnt too bright or too hot over the bad test tube. This would help speed up the process of moving queens

Love the vid, hope to see more soon!

Nice video!!! Waiting for it😉😀

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Haha, ye it has been a while :D

Great Video!

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks :D

Where do you buy those test tubes?? There look so good

@EllieW2016

3 жыл бұрын

Haha he likes it but doesn’t respond

@charleslepon8836

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe antscanada

@TaraW1977

3 жыл бұрын

AntsCanada is pricy

@nathansaquaticsexotics9239

3 жыл бұрын

Ant nest

I live in Sweden too! And this helped me so much! U earned a sub!

The fungi was caused mostly because you gave them food. According to Ants Canada, the queen has all its nutrients in it's muscles so you don't have to feed it unless its first brood comes.

@boorgir2425

5 жыл бұрын

Only for queens that are fully claustral

@randomguy9841

4 жыл бұрын

Most experienced antkeepers dont give a fuck to AC. Most times the best way for a queen to thrive is having addtional food sources

@bolt1437

4 жыл бұрын

@@randomguy9841 First sentence is true, second is not.

@finnmaunsell7150

11 ай бұрын

Ive raised 20 Canponotus queens at a time and feeding them makes the first workers bigger, and makes the queen lay more so its better

awesome video!!! thanks

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

No, thank you! :D

Great video

First Ants Canada, then Ants Australia and now Ants Scandinavia... I didn’t know anything about ants.Now I’ve become a fan of those little, amazing creatures. I think Ants Scandinavia will be a good channel for me as I’m from Europe.

@yesproductions5256

3 жыл бұрын

Same!

NICE!!

Nice video!

Despite your best efforts at educating your audience on the right ways to procure exotic ant species, I feel that the very act of buying them makes it seem more like a justification than anything else. I haven't seen your recent videos, so I guess I'll have to update myself to figure out your approach to ant keeping. As you mentioned, do your research and keep ants! :)

Great videos! Keep going. Regards from ants in Croatia :)

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!!! :D

Great video lots of info :-) :-);-)

@AntsScandinavia

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

I actually caught my first queen (Camponotus spp.) crawling on my wall. My family is Norwegian, so maybe Scandinavians have special luck with ant keeping. Great video, keep them coming.

When the virus Will be gone, I Will go to greece And catch myself an exotic queen

@bcants7467

3 жыл бұрын

this video when I was 2 years ago and it’s still good and same I want some exotic ants

@melkerabrahamsson6619

3 жыл бұрын

The Queen Will probably die from the vibrations when You go home.

@konstantinosnikolaidis1692

3 жыл бұрын

U don't want to take ants from Greece, they are too small. I know because I live there.

@TacticalAnt420

3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t. This could lead to a catastrophic ecological disaster because ants adapt and they could replace the fauna of you’re region.

@drunkenwidow5260

3 жыл бұрын

@@konstantinosnikolaidis1692 dude, what are you talking about? Greece has the biggest variety of ants of all europian countries and among them there are severall native camponotus and cataglyphis species that aren't small at all!

Great video 👍 loved it

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

@nexgaming741

6 жыл бұрын

Ants Scandinavia np bud :)

Did you notice how you found a queen in winter? It was in your house. Exotic ants can do that too. They can escape and travel around your area. But even if they die, they can carry disease or parasites, which can be detrimental to the wildlife. Also, prenolepis imparis doesn’t hibernate over winter, and are in your area.

You’re so good at video recording, even better at editing, I’m so lucky my ants don’t have to hibernate... HALF A YEAR WITHOUT THEM !!!

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Eyyyy, thanks dude :D Well, if I am good at video editing, then you must be a TOTAL GOD at digital AND IRL drawing!!

The dead Queen's larvie you could put for some other Queens for increase the workers number...It's much help for them.

The queen might not actually be dead. Some queens go to a near death state and stay still after their nanitics. If you gave the nanitic honey and the worker gave food to the queen via trophalaxis, the Queeb might quote on quote "come alive"

You could have used the nanitic and pupa from one of the dead queens and given it to the parasitic queen

@TacticalAnt420

3 жыл бұрын

Antknowledge parasitic queen need more workers and from 1 to 5 precise species. But it could work.

@your_average_blanket_lover3732

3 жыл бұрын

Cretaceous Monster usually a parasitic species will accept pupae from any species that lives in the area,and a couple pupae is better than none lol

@TacticalAnt420

3 жыл бұрын

Antknowledge the pupae, yes. The nanitics, no

@your_average_blanket_lover3732

3 жыл бұрын

Cretaceous Monster I’ve had queens accept callow workers thought it happened in non parasitic queens/small colonies

@TacticalAnt420

3 жыл бұрын

Antknowledge cool!

Hi mate, great video. Do you feed your queens well before hibernating? Even if they are claustral, in extreme cold temperatures they might need that extra boost of some honey to keep them warm and fight off infection and fungus. As for the exotic ants, I believe responsible keeping of exotic ants by an adult is no problem if it is within the keeper's means to keep them contained. When you live in such cold temperatures it definitely can't be a problem if it is so different from their natural habitat, like you said they will die quickly in the cold. So don't worry about any hate you get for it :P

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you man! :) You seem like a resonable guy, and ye, I did feed them all I beliave, tho not alot, sinse some left over honey can produce a lot of mould ;)

Cool video! One tip: for the young queens small chambers are better. Its more difficult for them to nest in a long testtube. I would put the cotten more in the near of the watertank so that the nestingspace gets smaller.

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Okey, maybie I will do that :)

I love the species

Where have you bought the test tube? and the ytong block? I have recently moved to Stockholm and restart all my ants' setup, thank for helping out!!!

Really cool video, what is your favorite Swedish ant species?

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Hmmmm, I would have to say formica fusca, dont know why, but their majors look soooo beautiful :D

i live in Colorado and i cot two red ant queens

@TacticalAnt420

3 жыл бұрын

Jaye Leon cool!

Yes i live in Finland and we have The same winter as you do and i have to some non native ants

I caught yellow componotus queen it's very lovely

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thats cool! :D Is it maybie the camponotus turcestanus?

Some queens of Messor Barbarus don't stack all the eggs leaving some laying on the floor, it's normal. I think that it could be because Messor Barbarus are one of the ants with less vision and they don't realise that one egg is not stacked.

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Weeell, it was first of all the wasmanni that did not stack them ;) And she has done that by now actually ;)

I had a lot of luck this year: none of my lasius ants/queens died! Sadly, some Messor barbarus workers did die. The overlapping gaster-segments are caused by low food reserves, I think. If you feed them, they will be okay again. What a great way to capture a (Myrmica) queen! I hope your Polyrhachis will do well!

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Ye, the overlaping segments is a sign of that, and thats why she ate so much ;) Nice that you had soo much luck with the hibernation :D Awesome!

yes a swedish ant channel GÖTT

@AntsScandinavia

5 жыл бұрын

Såklart! Visste du att Nordic Ants också är Svensk ;)?

Are you able to put the suffering worker and brood to the other same species queen?

You live in such a beautiful place. I hope I can catch some nice Queens this year and start my own little colony . That is if my husband doesn’t get freaked out... 😃

Wow😱😱😱😱

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Ahaaa! Preeeetty cool! 😱

Hej hej. I just found your channel and I'm so glad that I did. Your videos are awesome! The production quality amazes me! I'm thinking of starting my own ant colony so I'll be going queen hunting soon. Since I'm also in Sweden, if you are around Stockholm you could join me since I won't know what I'm doing anyways.

@AntsScandinavia

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you soo much Alber! Really means a ton :). Message me on Instagram and we can talk more!

My dad split open a log and there was a dead queen from hibernation ):

Hey dude great video

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks bee man! :D ;)

@honeyhuts7676

6 жыл бұрын

And i took your advice and i am starting to edit my videos

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@honeyhuts7676

6 жыл бұрын

I will let you know when i hit 50 subs

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Okey ;)

You're a speedcuber?! Nice! What cubes do you own?

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, well, my record is 1m, but that was last year, I just had them for decoration XD Aaaand the only speedcube I have is a cheap 7dollar budget cube so ye XD (nice spotted tho ;)

I just got 2 queens (tuneel ant queen) i was so happy

Those tubes are awesome especially the insert! Sadly they don't sell them anymore...

Great video dude 😎 I love the "Hobbit's house" where you store your ants during the hibernation period 😁 11:02 the Illuminati 😱 9:43 you should add it in every video!! (Great job 👍) Sorry for not sending you the connector from round to square test tube 😅

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! :D Ye, the "hobbit house" is it's name actually 😅 Hahahaha, but hold on, do you mean....that Nordic is THE Illuminati!?!?!?😱😂 Ye, I have recently while looking for exotic colonies, seen alot of people who dont research or think at all for that matter... So I felt like it was nessecairy :) Haha, no probs man, as I said, it all went smooth with bluetac ;)

@pan1c777

6 жыл бұрын

Nordic's logo was funny :D, it looked like a secret message or something! For what concerns doing research before purchasing ants (and not only :D ) people don't look up sh*t and it is not just about exotic species but also the most common ones unluckily!

@scottishguy399

6 жыл бұрын

Ants Scandinavia he probably lost a lot of money

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

What do you mean?

@pan1c777

6 жыл бұрын

Ants Scandinavia you should read my message box on IG and FB 😂😂😂 I should make a compilation!

You get the fungi because u put shit inside the tubes, you dont need sand or anything for the queens to start to lay eggs :)

I believe I remember reading that if a queen ant doesn't collect her eggs into a pile, it is likely that she is unfertilized. I guess we can put that to the test now, lets see if those scattered eggs ever grow.

Var köper jag "acorn ants", temnothorax nylanderi för att vara mer exakt, men alla små kolonier som passar beskrivningen av acron ant funkar fint. Jag bor i områden där dessa myror ska finnas, men jag har knäckt alldeles för många ekollon utan att hitta någon myra, så jag har gett upp. Grym kanal!

@AntsScandinavia

5 жыл бұрын

Haha, ah vag vet hur du känner XD men lycka till!! Tack!

where did you buy an exotic ant species?

#antloveforever🐜

im from singapore and I caught 5 Camponotus queens and 1 Colobopsis queen last week

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Aaaaah, Awesome!!! :D

Hehe yeet I have some quite epic native ants 😊 at the moment I have a few queens in founding 2 Camponotus Niveisetosus 1 Messor capensis 1 Myrmicaria natalensis 1 Camponotus Cinctellus From South Africa 😵😂👌🏼

Where i live was Pheidole is the most common

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Wow!! Thats awesome!

I am from Philippines. Where can i get those square test tubes?

i managed to only carpenter ant cause all t he other smaller species are really hard to see

Also check laws of where you live and are buying ants from to make sure you are not making an illegal purchase or are required to make a risk declaration. Keeping exotic species can pose a risk to your local environment.

@davelaid9141

5 жыл бұрын

yea thats why i dont like people keeping exotics

@maxxiang8746

5 жыл бұрын

in the EU you can order ants online legally

So there is an Ants canada, Ants Australia, Ants Africa, And now Ants scandanavia.

I have messos barbaros

Is antsrus a good place to buy a Queen?

I also live in sweden and we never do that tradition

I caught a Solenopsis geminata queen

only give that lasius umbratus that has too few host workers only pupa the workers will fight and that parasite i believe is a lasius fuliginosus but it could be umbratus and black umbratus are pretty common you will be supprised good vid!

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

weeeell, I have had succes with workers too :) But ye, pupae is more fail safe :)

What's your favorite Messor (specie?)? Mine is Messor Hebraeus

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

At the moment, I would say Wasmanni :D

iridomermix beckneli is really common in the land down under

@mrmuffin848

4 жыл бұрын

Phidole are quit common too, as well as rhytidonopera.

Mate, please share where you bought square test tube. :-)

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Description m8 ;)

@npapon

6 жыл бұрын

Damn, me never check descs on mobile, sorry haha! and thx :-)

SO NAMY ANT CHANNELS FROM SWEDEN!! En like för alla svennar

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Njaaa, det är väl bara jag och nordic va?

This season i caugth 6 queens, all from different species. I have a solenopsis geminata Queen who has a bunch of pupae, i also have an odontomachus erythrocephalus Queen, a pheidole one, a solenopsis fugax and i caugth a polyrachis and dorymyrmex insanus but they both died :(

From where do you buy ants

I got me 4 Prenolepis imparis today

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Oh, is that the "Winter ant"? Thats awesome! I wish we had them here as well ;)

well i didnt relize that camponotus vagus wasnt a native spizes so its kinda a exoite ant but ya there fine

Since when have you heated your messor queens?

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

I mean, I have a heat coil in the cubboard where I keep all of my founding colonies, so it is like 26*c in there, and I put em there after hibernation :)

Hey ants Scandinavia, I have caught a Carpenter ant in savannah Georgia but I’m not entirely sure if she is fertilized. I saw her flying in my room with both her wings however her gaster is massive. Idk what to do.

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Hmmm, most likely if she was "flying" she is not fertile, however I can be wrong! There is only one way to know for sure and that is to put her in a test tube. Campos can take a while to lay any eggs, so if she is fertile she lives, if not she will probably die :/ But I would try :)

The 2nd Queen is not dead!! she is hibernating. Antscanada said that it looks like its dead but alive!!! It takes 12 days to move again.

I caught my First Lasuis neoniger

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Niiice!! How do you know it is a NEOniger???

@ChiChi-lf5mk

6 жыл бұрын

Ants Scandinavia well I got told by some random guy online if I believe my channnels called ants Michigan I have 5-4 subs can u check for me

@ChiChi-lf5mk

6 жыл бұрын

Ants Scandinavia if u scroll down a bit there I am with 6 subs

What are the second ants called(the dead queen )?

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Lasius Flavus :)

did you put the myrmica queen in hibernation? i have a manica queen, which has eggs, but no workers. i dont want to lose her ;(( maybe she die in hibernation and dont get it... i love this species and also this queen, because it was a very lucky catch ^^

@AntsScandinavia

5 жыл бұрын

Wooow, Manica!! Awesome bro! I would wait untill she has her first workers, as the eggs and larvae will die in hibernation most likely. Or, you can put her into halfhibernation (maybie 16*C) when she has them to larvae, that way she feels that the temperature is dropping and will maybie not lay more eggs. If she has a worker to start with in spring, she will lay muuuch more eggs then, so wait rather for her to get one at least! :)

@ricksameisen1945

5 жыл бұрын

@@AntsScandinavia yes, manica is beatiful ^^ thx for the tipps, ill try to find a bit colder place for her. i wrote you on instagram a message :))

I'm soooo happy I caught a myrmcia pyroformis queen she is 3cm long like damn I'll have a vid up on my channel Wednesday afternoon

I'm in north America in winter and I found a queen ant

@AntsScandinavia

5 жыл бұрын

Wow, tahts dope!

I would love to see some native scandinavian ants though

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Coming ;)

5:07 its lasius mixtus not umbratus :)

I caught 54 Tetramorium queens

Has your wasmanni Queen got any workers yet?

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Check instagram ;)

@scottishguy399

6 жыл бұрын

Ants Scandinavia that’s great but sorry for your camponotus queen

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Ye, that was one heck of a surprise :'(

Awesome video, All these people hating about keeping exotic ants i understand your pain cause i am from the uk and hibernation lasts 5 months here not quite 6 months but still a long time and a non hibernating species is so fun to keep :D keep up the awesome vids!

@AntsScandinavia

5 жыл бұрын

Yea dude, I am fully on the exotic team. Tho, native sp. are greeeeat for those not sure what to start with as they are releasable :)

@seshkingdom4713

5 жыл бұрын

@@AntsScandinavia Couldn't agree more my man :)

Why is every testube having soil in it, can you do a video about that please because my queen died in testube last week and i dont know why.

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Hmm, ye I am planning on a antkeeping basics video, so ye, i will :)

@karmo0o178

6 жыл бұрын

Ty a lot

Do you feed them cooked or raw chicken??

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Can't remember, tho I dont think it matters. I think this was cooked tho :)

I caught Pseudolasius

Are those polyrhachis ants

i have messor barbarus a

Hmmmmm my messor Wasmanni hasn’t laid any eggs but I have sand in the testube so the eggs might be camouflaged in the grains of sand and my red head doesn’t have any workers but she has loads of eggs and brood can’t wait to have my first worker.

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Nice! :D Ye, mine has around 10 workers now

Bull ant season just ended I have a bull ant queen with 14 eggs !

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Wooow! Awesome man! :D I am so jelaous!

Which country are you from?

Friendly reminder that in the US there are federal laws preventing people from buying exotic ants.

I caught four messor spp queens but none of them are having eggs i had them over 4 days. Can somebody help me.I check on them once a day and i keep them in a dark closet

@piesaurus6008

4 жыл бұрын

WhiteTiger 987k don’t check on them every day that’s unhealthy also make sure there are little to no vibrations messor are very sensitive so check them every 1 to 2 weeks

@user-zq8lm7dv5u

4 жыл бұрын

@@piesaurus6008 One of them made eggs how can i know that they are fertile

@piesaurus6008

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-zq8lm7dv5u wait and be very patient if they hatch the queen is likely fertile it is hard to tell when/if they hatch because when they first hatch they are still the size of eggs

Please help. I tried to keep ant queens and they both drowned in their testube because of leaks in the cotton.

@56j

6 жыл бұрын

Ants Scandinavia thank you

Where in Sweden do you live? Är du go elle? Jag bor i Göteborg...

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Tyvärr asså, sthlm jao

@ottar0428

6 жыл бұрын

Okej

i cot pheidole sp colony :-)

11:41 Diacammas are queenless right?Instead they use a gamergate system.....

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Yep, thats right ^_^ So awesome species :D, tho vonurable because of their large sizes and slow growth.... :(

@deomapile1721

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah....and because they dont have nuptial flights to acquire them they need to be colony collected

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly :/

If eggs scattered it means that the queen might not be fertile

@AntsScandinavia

6 жыл бұрын

She has multiple workes now ;) Thanks anyways!