For about a year my colony was tiny with basically no growth and no ant activity. Randomly a few months ago they started sending out workers again, and as soon as that happened the colony began booming in population. You just gotta trust that the ants know what they’re doing and know when they’re ready to start growing.

When I was young from Indiana in the 60z these were called Caespitum I have 5 colonies of Caespitum . I usually just put them in dirt right out of the tube after I see a few workers.. Thanks for posting this as these will always be my favorite ant as of 10 yrs ago I live in the tropics and the colonies will be fine just have to space them out so they don't kill each other.

I never thought about pushing the cotton with the purpose of the "door" further back so the queen doesn't feel insecure because of the large space, but then being able to expand it once the colony get's bigger.

youre alive!

Him: I like to catch 3-5 ant queens. Me: Catching 45 Lasius niger queens🗿

@janaduchonova9495

8 ай бұрын

same

can't wait to see more Tetramorium vids :D my first queen ever cough was one like this, she laid egg's but they never hatched and she died sadly, hopefully i can find another one this year :)

I caught a Tetramorium immigrans queen this year and right now has 12-14 workers with a huge brood pile with large larvae and some dark pupae! It's amazing how fast these ants grow in only a few months.

The man is bacc! :D

goat is back

Discovered your channel at the perfect time! A nice comeback after a long wait it seems.

He’s back

My favorite ants

Finally a new video

New video from ants anatomy JUST when my school closed? GREAT COINCIDENCE LOL

I just caught 8 of those pavement ant queens. They had already lost their wings. They seem to have their nuptial flights at night.

@setshkrkrlenv

11 ай бұрын

They nuptial flight super early in the morning around 3 am, but can be found pretty much anytime.

@antkeeper51

10 ай бұрын

I found my queen at 10 in the morning

@joshuahull9982

10 ай бұрын

@@antkeeper51 I usually find them the day after they are done flying around. I've never seen pavement ants fly in the daytime though. Every year I get them around my porch lights at night when they are flying around. I finally have workers now.

@joshuahull9982

10 ай бұрын

@@setshkrkrlenv I've gotten them around my porch lights early in the night.

@janaduchonova9495

8 ай бұрын

i found about 15 of them on one exact place near my during one week (about 4 each day) house, and now have 3 of them succefully living together. i wonder why they were more queen comming there as it was not a safe place for them. They were Tetramorium caespitum though.

You caught them on my birthday

I love immigrans so much, I lost my 1000+ colony last year, but I've already caught another queen and she has 30 larvae, and I'm boosting her with some Lasius Pupae

This is pretty cool!

I had caught 6-7 ant queens here are the types: Red Ant: 1x Carpenter Ant: 1x Pavement Ants (Tetramorium Immigrans): 4x False Yellow Crazy Ants: 2x

I snagged 2 of these girls end of June - one died within days (not mated?) the other is sitting on top of at least 15 larva and another 10 ish eggs - i dont think i will be able to hibernate this nest in the tube , will need to put them in a real home before the end of the year.

I have a lot of those queens

What time of day in North America would they have thier nuptial flights (anywhere works too)

Awesome video do you have to have a top on tapinoma or camponotus ants if I use Vaseline

@antsanatomy1436

Жыл бұрын

I have noticed Vaseline to not be super effective for either to be honest with you. Use fluon if possible or baby powder mixture

3 Please ! Its big enough that you don't need to wait a long time :D Pls name them the Carrion colony (Carry on)

your voice is so low now :o

Can i still capture camponotus queens in this time of year? Im in virginia.

I orefer dd mm yyyy fornat. Small to big. Like a colony! 😊

thats crazy how mine took 8 weeks to get that size

@antsanatomy1436

10 ай бұрын

Mine were slow for some reason

@flants3

10 ай бұрын

@@antsanatomy1436my first ones died because i had 2 they killed the fertile one

colonie 3 had 19 workers

@antsanatomy1436

Жыл бұрын

Good to know! Thanks

Cool! Btw pls don’t release these ants like you mentioned you might do with your extra colonies because they are not native and compete with native ants for resources.

@antsanatomy1436

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s true. Where I live they have cemented themselves in with the native species. No pun intended

I caught one a few months ago and have about 10 workers now. When did you hibernate them? How did you introduce them to hibernation and what temperature? I don't want to kill them, took me so long to find a pavement ant queen.

@antsanatomy1436

8 ай бұрын

I hibernate mine at the end of October. They can go longer than some other species before hibernating. To hibernate them, I remove any heat source from the nest, wait about a week and then put them in my mini fridge. Slowly lowering the temperature over a few days

@klinerd9603

4 ай бұрын

@@antsanatomy1436what temp did you start at and what temp did you get down to?

Question, i have this same species but the queen has only produced eggs, but like alot theres atleast 23 from what i can see, is this normal, ive had her like a week or two thanks in advance!

@mylifeisalie6781

11 ай бұрын

It takes a while to turn from egg to larvae to pupae. 6 weeks to go from egg all the way to worker

@antsanatomy1436

11 ай бұрын

Exactly. They start as eggs and develop over time.

@flants3

10 ай бұрын

@@mylifeisalie6781no mine took a little over 3 weeks unheatted

If you let two of the colonys go can you film it?

@antsanatomy1436

Жыл бұрын

Great idea

Nice videos, horrible music!