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#1 Offline drtrmiller - Posted November 7 2015 - 12:10 AM

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Here is a list of various links that many ant keepers find handy.
 

Anting

Ant Mating Chart
https://www.formicul...t-mating-chart/

How to Find and Catch Queen Ants
https://www.formicul...tch-ant-queens/
 
Anting How-To
https://www.formicul...y-mated-queens/


Techniques for Successful Anting
https://www.formicul...or-when-anting/
 
Spotting Founding Chambers
https://www.formicul...ounding-chamber


Ant Keeping

Ant keeping Guide for Beginners
https://www.formicul...-for-beginners/

Picture of Formicariums and Outworlds
https://www.formicul...-and-outworlds/

Preferred Food by Species
https://www.formicul...ood-by-species/

Escape Prevention Barriers
https://www.formicul...-to-by-members/

Various Setups for Founding Queens:
https://www.formicul...ernation</span>
https://www.formicul...to-hibernation/

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Ant Keeping Census
https://www.formicul...s-of-the-forum/
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Pictures of Members Ant Keeping Areas
https://www.formicul...your-ant-areas/

Live Ant Video Streams
https://www.formicul...-video-streams/

Substrates and Materials for Building your Formicarium
https://www.formicul...ium/#entry11018

Various Methods to Color an Ant Nest
https://www.formicul...sts/#entry12423

Materials and Equipment Purchasing Guide
https://www.formicul...ide/#entry25326


Tutorials and How-To's

How to Build a Formicarium out of Grout
https://www.formicul...icture +journey

How to Build a Picture Frame Grout Formicarium with Advanced Hydration
https://www.formicul...ion/#entry28868

How to build a Formicarium in an aquarium
https://www.formicul...carium/?p=17667

How to Build a Formicarium out of Firebrick
https://www.formicul...icture +journey

How to build a Formicarium out of a Bead Container
https://www.formicul...icture +journey

How to build a formicarium with clay
https://www.formicul...um-out-of-clay/

How to build a horizontal sand formicarium
https://www.formicul...nd-formicarium/

How to Build an Ant Waterer or Liquid Feeder
https://www.formicul...-liquid-feeder/

How to Build a Foraging Area
https://www.formicul...-foraging-area/

Cullturing various insect feeders:
https://www.formicul...ts-and-feeders/

How to move your ants
https://www.formicul...nts/#entry14571

How to clean your Foraging Area:
https://www.formicul...-foraging-area/

Ant Food Recipes:
Etherwulf's cricket and whey recipe
https://www.formicul...ch-threadguide/

Chromerust's chicken and nectar recipe
https://www.formicul...-feeding-video/


Photography

Tips for Taking and Posting Pictures
https://www.formicul...sting-pictures/

Photographing Live Ants (Wayne's Word)
https://www2.palomar...Nikon9.htm#ants

Ant photography thread
https://www.formicul...ead/#entry27027


Keys and Identification

AntWeb
https://www.antweb.org/
Click on the Regions dropdown, and you location may be on this site (Nearctic is US and Canada).
This site will provide a list of known ant species in a given area. It is possible to see side views and descriptions of the ants.

Ant Wiki
https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

North American Ants (Myrmecos)
http://www.myrmecos....-american-ants/

Taxonomic List of Ant Genera (Alexander Wild)
https://www.alexande...t-of-Ant-Genera

General Ant Keys
https://www.formicul...ic/269-ant-key/

How to distinguish Lasius, Formica, Camponotus, and Polyergus
https://www.formicul...ce-differences/

Ants (Formicidae) of the Southeastern United States
https://mississippie...icidaehome.html
A very useful resource for many ants along the Atlantic coast.

Ants (Formidicae) of Alberta, Canada
http://www.biology.u..._22/ganp_22.pdf

Camponotus key for United States Southwest
https://www.formicul...ates-southwest/

Taxonomic Notes on Nearctic Species of Camponotus, Subgenus Myrmentoma
http://antbase.org/a...s/8289/8289.pdf

Key to Myrmecocystus species
https://www.antwiki...._species#14-e-w

Alphabetical Index of [Southwest] Ant Genera by Subfamily (Wayne's Word)
https://www2.palomar...g/AntGenera.htm

Harvester Ants of the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. Some other ants, too...
https://www.pogolumina.net/

Hymenoptera Online
https://hol.osu.edu/
An excellent resource for tracking down descriptions and other scientific literature, especially when a description is unavailable or inconclusive.

Ant Identification Key 1-node Ants
https://lancaster.un...s/1nodeants.pdf

Ant Identification Key 2-node Ants
https://lancaster.un...s/2nodeants.pdf

FMC Professional Solutions Ant Identification Guide
http://www.fmcprosol...et=dsESXNRwKA0=

Antkey | ID guide | introduced ants
http://antkey.org/en

Navajo Nature
http://www.navajonat...avajo-ants.html
Great for ants in the "Four Corners" states. An intersection of Navajo ideals and binomial classification.

Key to Identifying Common French Ants
http://keyants.free.fr/
Very helpful for identifying European ants

Dr Eleanor's Book of Common Ants
http://www.yourwildl...04/BCA_demo.pdf


Other Interesting Links

Specimen Preparation and Labeling
https://mississippie...ecimen.prep.htm

List of Favorite Ant Videos
https://www.formicul...e-ant-channels/

Map of members' locations
https://www.formicul...er-map/?p=30287

Antmaps.org
https://antmaps.org

Edited by drtrmiller, April 3 2024 - 8:38 AM.



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#2 Offline dspdrew - Posted November 7 2015 - 1:37 AM

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:lol: I can't believe you spent that much time on this.






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