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[Striker8950]

Hello , i would like to find someone who could sell a solenopsis geminata queen.

Also interested in carebara diversa.

[ANTdrew]

Double post, and don’t do it. Plenty of other interesting ants that are not catastrophically destructive ecologically.

[Manitobant]

https://www.theantla...opical-fire-ant

[Kaelwizard]

Double post, and don’t do it. Plenty of other interesting ants that are not catastrophically destructive ecologically.

Never mind. I hadn't realized S. geminata were also a global invasive.

Edited by Kaelwizard, June 20 2021 - 3:36 PM.

[Prion]

Double post, and don’t do it. Plenty of other interesting ants that are not catastrophically destructive ecologically.

"Destructive" They are a testament to evolution and are beautiful ants, I will continue to let my allates fly in the thousands. 

[Serafine]

Hello , i would like to find someone who could sell a solenopsis geminata queen.

Also interested in carebara diversa.

Do you have any experience with "difficult" ants? ("difficult" meaning hard to contain)

Large Solenopsis species have painful stings and if they escape (something they are infamous for) can easily make a room uninhabitable for days.

They are also a serious danger to pets and small children.

 

Unless you already have experience in containing small escape-happy ants i'd recommend "training" with something else first (if you're in Europe i'd recommend Lasius niger - they're just as bad when it comes to escaping but they don't give you painful purulent postules because they don't have stingers (just like Solenopsis they will attack and kill off any other nearby ant colonies though) - not sure what species are good candidates elsewhere).

 

 

And a word on Carebara diversa - these ants are HYPERsensitive in terms of nesting conditions and they absolutely HATE being shipped.

You can consider yourself lucky if you get a healthy colony in the first place and they're very hard to raise properly. Unless you have experience with sensitive ants it's likely they're not gonna do great for you.

Edited by Serafine, August 16 2022 - 6:42 PM.

[FinWins]

Hello , i would like to find someone who could sell a solenopsis geminata queen.

Also interested in carebara diversa.

Solenopsis are extremely hard to contain and feed. WHEN they escape they will immediately start to kill all the ant colonies in the area, Antshood’s S. geminata recently escaped and he lost several valuable ant colonies to them, of all the ants I know of fire ants might be the hardest to contain successfully.

And Carabara are a very difficult species to keep because of their need for top quality climate control as well as their tendency towards randomly dying.