Thank you all for the responses and yes i do plan on planting native plants as i already have a semi native garden for when monarch butturflies come around. I am also starting another plot specific to native plants. I do under stand that the only way to keep native ants in the area is native plants. I wouldn't just get queens and yeet them into my yard without any place safe from anything and that is my intention. Get queens, put them in my native plant graden which is isolated and eventually they should grow and prosper.
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Ant Keeping Since June 2018
Currently Keeping:
A. versicolor, C. us-ca02, C. yogi, C. Vicinus, C. laevigatus, C. clarithorax, C. maritimus, C. ocreatus, M. mexicanus, M. placodops 01, V. andrei, V. pergandei, N. cockerelli, P. barbata, P. montanus
Hoping to Catch This season:
M. romanei, M. placodops 02, P. imberbiculus, Polyergus sp., F. moki, A. megomatta, Cyphomyrmex sp.,Temnothorax sp.