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Looking buy - Meranoplus Bicolor

Started By rcflyer , Sep 23 2025 6:29 AM

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#1 Offline rcflyer - Posted September 23 2025 - 6:29 AM

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Looking to buy Meranoplus 


#2 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted September 23 2025 - 6:32 AM

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In order to buy or sell ants, you need your location in your profile for legal reasons.


Edited by Ants_Dakota, September 23 2025 - 6:33 AM.

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Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. -Proverbs 6: 6-8

My Ant Shop Here I have PPQ-526 permits to ship ants nationwide

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#3 Offline rcflyer - Posted September 23 2025 - 6:40 AM

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Ok got it I'll work on updating profile. 


#4 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted September 23 2025 - 6:41 AM

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It will be under the "my settings" tab when you click your username in the top right.


Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. -Proverbs 6: 6-8

My Ant Shop Here I have PPQ-526 permits to ship ants nationwide

Attention Ant-Keepers in South Dakota! Join the SoDak(Society Of Dakotan Ant Keepers)

My Formica sp. Journal

My Lasius sp. Journal

My Micro Ants Journal

#5 Online RushmoreAnts - Posted September 23 2025 - 7:52 PM

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It is a federal offense punishable by up to prison and fines to import ants from foreign countries into the U.S. without a PPQ-526 permit from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Seeing as Meranoplus bicolor is endemic to southeast Asia, you won't obtain these legally in the U.S. Furthermore, it is also a federal offense to transport a queen ant across state borders without a PPQ-526 permit as well. This is why the rules require your location to buy or sell ants on this forum.


Edited by RushmoreAnts, September 23 2025 - 7:54 PM.

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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans                                  Camponotus vicinus, modoc, novaeboracensis, herculeanus

Formica pallidefulva, argentea                        Solenopsis molesta

Formica cf. aserva                                          Lasius brevicornis, neoniger

Pheidole bicarinata

Lasius claviger

#6 Offline OwlThatLikesAnts - Posted September 24 2025 - 9:29 AM

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It is a federal offense punishable by up to prison and fines to import ants from foreign countries into the U.S. without a PPQ-526 permit from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Seeing as Meranoplus bicolor is endemic to southeast Asia, you won't obtain these legally in the U.S. Furthermore, it is also a federal offense to transport a queen ant across state borders without a PPQ-526 permit as well. This is why the rules require your location to buy or sell ants on this forum.

I also don't believe there is anyone that sells southeast Asian species of ants in this forum. I doubt that anyone even ships ants out of their country here. I think to acquire this species, first you get the PPQ-526 permit, Find someone in southeast Asia who also has a permit to ship ants out of their country and then work something out and somehow get the ants here. Not to mention it could be expensive and the colony could die in transit or when you receive them.

 

Just saying, I believe that some countries in Europe allows you to import exotic ant species but you're not allowed to release them (duh  :facepalm:)

Anyways most of what I wrote was what I've heard from other people (mostly this forum) so don't take it word for word


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Currently keeping:

 

1x Formica subsericea, 35-40 workers + maybe eggs

1x Crematogaster cerasi, only queen now, workers ded   :facepalm:*internal screaming*

1x Myrmica ruba sp around 10 workers + pupa

*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)

 

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