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#61 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted May 17 2021 - 1:33 PM

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I saw another queen bumblebee outside but by the time I wrangled my birbs into a room and locked the door, she was long gone  :dash:


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#62 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted May 17 2021 - 1:43 PM

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I’ve seen 6 queens this year and e v e r y s i n g l e t i m e I was unable to catch them. But every time I see a worker and mistake it for a queen, I catch it no problem.


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#63 Offline ANTdrew - Posted May 17 2021 - 1:44 PM

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Just be thankful you’ll have new colonies founded near you. Make sure your yard has good foraging plants that bloom throughout the season. Overseeding your lawn with clover seeds is an easy hack. Where there is clover, there is hope for bees.
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#64 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted October 25 2021 - 1:43 AM

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Just be thankful you’ll have new colonies founded near you. Make sure your yard has good foraging plants that bloom throughout the season. Overseeding your lawn with clover seeds is an easy hack. Where there is clover, there is hope for bees.

I just read this fully and I have a question. Why clovers? I thought they were a type of non flowering weed ;-;


Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

YouTube: https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)

Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): Camponotus irritans inferior, Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, Nylanderia sp., Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#65 Offline SYUTEO - Posted October 25 2021 - 5:59 AM

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Just be thankful you’ll have new colonies founded near you. Make sure your yard has good foraging plants that bloom throughout the season. Overseeding your lawn with clover seeds is an easy hack. Where there is clover, there is hope for bees.

I just read this fully and I have a question. Why clovers? I thought they were a type of non flowering weed ;-;

 

Probably because they mean luck.


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Began antkeeping in 2018  :)

 

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#66 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted March 10 2022 - 5:22 PM

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Where did Swirly go? This was super cool journal but it died :c


Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

YouTube: https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)

Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): Camponotus irritans inferior, Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, Nylanderia sp., Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#67 Offline azzaaazzzz00 - Posted March 10 2022 - 5:58 PM

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Yea I hope she comes back, I wanted to see the snails :(


Been keeping ants since January of 2021

Always try new things, even if its hard, hard is not impossible. We are smart and it's good to be smart but not too smart for your own good.

#68 Offline ANTdrew - Posted March 11 2022 - 4:00 PM

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Just be thankful you’ll have new colonies founded near you. Make sure your yard has good foraging plants that bloom throughout the season. Overseeding your lawn with clover seeds is an easy hack. Where there is clover, there is hope for bees.

I just read this fully and I have a question. Why clovers? I thought they were a type of non flowering weed ;-;
Clover is a legume that blooms in late spring here in North America. It puts out copious nectar and protein rich pollen for bees. Various small butterflies eat the leaves as a host plant as well. It is a wonder plant, really.
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.




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