Hi! good evening, you may remember me form my parasitic solenopsis thing, i proved it was real in the discord antkeeping server.
anyways, as you might know, i live in Monterrey nuevoleon mexico, now exactly today in the after noon, i saw an extremely big paratrechina longicornis move, this was too big, even for paratrechina, between the scouring workers i spotted a larger, black head an tailed one, now, i thought these where neivayrmex at first, but they where identified as labidus praedator. the colony was very small, about 50 workers and a small nest inside a wall.
i know the implications of neivamyrmex, but not these guys, I'm planning on getting them soon, I've discussed this with daniel kronauer very briefly and he commented that, to my surprise, it is ok if it is for research purposes.
now, ill make this clear, I'm no scientist, but I've been in the forefront of studying ants that are common in the mexican ant community, I've traced out every little detail of the species i can get my hands on, I'm addicted to it, the last ones i need to watch are, leptogenys, pachycondyla, neivamyrmex, and well now labidus.
please keep the ethics of keeping them out of the discussion, but feel free to express your disapproval.
if you have any experience, registered info about what they need,what hours do they make their colony move, anything. please help me out
what i will give back is probably one of the most detailed descriptions of their needs, preferences, behaviors, practically anything, to help out the next keeper who might someday own them.
thank you all in advance.