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Formica rufibarbis care

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#1 Offline NPLT - Posted April 5 2021 - 3:46 AM

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Hello, my garden is shared  between a huge colony of Lasius niger and a colony of Formica rufibarbis, I plan on catching a F.rufibarbis queen in June or buying it after the month because one of the ant stores in Poland will probably have one, and naturally I've been researching the topic and I think I got most of the necessary information, however I wanted to ask, about personal experiences raising this species or a cousin of theirs.


Um, uh, Ants!

 

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#2 Offline Barristan - Posted April 5 2021 - 5:56 AM

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They are not very hard to keep. Several types of nests are fine like dirt nest, ytong nest or plaster of paris nest. I kept mine in a small nest made out of plaster of paris:

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If you feed them enough insects the colony will grow quite fast.


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#3 Offline NPLT - Posted April 5 2021 - 1:24 PM

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They are not very hard to keep. Several types of nests are fine like dirt nest, ytong nest or plaster of paris nest. I kept mine in a small nest made out of plaster of paris:

IMG_5336.jpg

 

If you feed them enough insects the colony will grow quite fast.

Thanks, I plan to keep them in a ytong nest ( currently searching for one standing upright because I heard these like to keep their eggs in drier, upper parts of the nest, and the queens in the moistier lower part of the nest ) and to start a D.melanogaster or D.hydei culture ( I can never remeber which one is the bigger one ) to feed them, along anything caught between my window and mosquito net.

 

Also, I read in one Polish source that these ants can practice polygyny, however this claim was either not supported ( sometimes hinted at ) or not mentioned by other sources, is it true those ants can have multiple queens in the nest?


Edited by NPLT, April 6 2021 - 5:57 AM.

Um, uh, Ants!

 

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