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anyone selling pheidole morrisii ants near North Carolina?

Started By PuppyAnts , Apr 18 2025 10:54 AM

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#1 Offline PuppyAnts - Posted April 18 2025 - 10:54 AM

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hey, this is my first time on this forum, but i was really wanting a colony of pheidole morrisii ants with 5-50 workers but everywhere i look they're sold out! does anyone have them? if not i would settle for pheidole biancarnita.


#2 Offline ANTdrew - Posted April 19 2025 - 2:19 AM

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Try blacklighting on hot humid nights from June through July, especially after rain, and you’ll be sure to get various Pheidole species.
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#3 Offline PuppyAnts - Posted April 21 2025 - 2:07 PM

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ok. what is blacklighting? like walking around with a blacklight?


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#4 Offline OwlThatLikesAnts - Posted April 21 2025 - 2:15 PM

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ok. what is blacklighting? like walking around with a blacklight?

It’s when you sit around with a black/UV light next to a white blanket or sheet there is also other methods but usually when you black light queen ants get attracted to the light and the ants come to you instead of you coming to them. Just saying it’s not just queens that come to a black light.


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Currently keeping:

 

1x Formica subsericea, 35-40 workers +  BIG brood pile + 10 pupa.

1x Crematogaster cerasi, 1 workers + finally some bigger brood (The worker that was dying died  :facepalm:)

1x Myrmica ruba sp around 10 workers

*New* 1x  founding Camponotus pennsylvanicus + eggs that die (probably infertile)

*New* 2x Camponotus nova, one is infertile

*As you watch your ants march, remember that every thing begins with a small step and continued by diligence and shared dreams*

-A.T (which is Me)

 

#5 Offline PuppyAnts - Posted April 21 2025 - 3:17 PM

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so like sit on my porch with a UV light and wait for the ants to come to me?


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#6 Offline OwlThatLikesAnts - Posted April 21 2025 - 4:46 PM

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so like sit on my porch with a UV light and wait for the ants to come to me?

Yeah basically, the white sheet is so that the ants can land and you can see them properly instead of landing everywhere on the ground


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Currently keeping:

 

1x Formica subsericea, 35-40 workers +  BIG brood pile + 10 pupa.

1x Crematogaster cerasi, 1 workers + finally some bigger brood (The worker that was dying died  :facepalm:)

1x Myrmica ruba sp around 10 workers

*New* 1x  founding Camponotus pennsylvanicus + eggs that die (probably infertile)

*New* 2x Camponotus nova, one is infertile

*As you watch your ants march, remember that every thing begins with a small step and continued by diligence and shared dreams*

-A.T (which is Me)

 

#7 Offline ANTdrew - Posted April 22 2025 - 1:57 AM

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Search in the archives here for info on black light traps. You’ll get great info on how to set one up.
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#8 Offline Yusteponant - Posted April 29 2025 - 7:11 AM

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so like sit on my porch with a UV light and wait for the ants to come to me?

Just be aware but black lighting doesn't only attract ants but other critters to so be careful!


#9 Offline ANTdrew - Posted April 29 2025 - 11:08 AM

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so like sit on my porch with a UV light and wait for the ants to come to me?

Just be aware but black lighting doesn't only attract ants but other critters to so be careful!
Seriously? There’s literally nothing to be careful about. If anything, you might see some truly awesome bugs you’d never otherwise encounter.
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Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.
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