I've only just found your page as I am new to the idea of ant keeping, but I've noticed you haven't given any good updates on your ant in like 2 year... (Especially Camponotus) So how are your Colonies doing?
The reason I took a break is because last year I lost all my ant colonies to mysterious circumstances. They all just slowly died off shortly after I'd moved. I had to start over from scratch this year, so there hasn't been anything very exciting to report. Could probably do a vid on my T.sessile at least.
:( I'm sorry to hear that! It's so scary wanting to get into this knowing there is a decent percentage that 1 mistake could results in entire colony loss let alone a loss of multiple... Again sorry for your loss and hope you keep at it!
Sometimes colonies will even crash when you do everything right too. It can be really discouraging, not gonna lie, but it's just part of the hobby. Makes it all the more satisfying when you finally get a colony to thrive.
@@Stoneman39488 Really dude? Lots of newbies lose ants for all sorts of reasons, and sometimes queens/colonies just don't survive no matter what you do...but go off, I guess. Experience and having access to more keepers has helped, but I still catch fail queens every year that don't survive no matter what I do. Case in point, the Tetra in this video never did lay any eggs for me, and I released her back into my yard. I'm guessing she was either infertile or refused to found in captivity. It happens. Anyway, I still have the Tapinoma sessile colony I have been raising since I made this video. They got so big, I had to buy them a formicarium. I also had so many healthy C. pennsylvanicus founding this year, I had to give/sell them off or I would have been overrun. I feel bad when colonies die, and have been doing my best to ensure that they have the best chances I can give them with the knowledge I have at the time. Like, this year, thanks to new research, I've learned from others that Campo need urea to thrive in captivity. I wish I'd had that knowledge 3 years ago. Live and learn
@Potato Boy Ants breed in the air, most of the time. It's the only time they fly. Also, males die immediately after breeding, and don't live very long if they don't breed, so they are only around for a short time during the year.
dont do that
It's bad to pole out the wings of a queen ant
Not if she's already being kept. They normally get pulled off eventually anyway. It's a hazard for them in test tubes.
@@dog5907 because it is threatened
QUEENS DO IT THEIRSELF DONT PULL OUT QUEENS WINGS IT CAN D😡AMAGE THEM
I've only just found your page as I am new to the idea of ant keeping, but I've noticed you haven't given any good updates on your ant in like 2 year... (Especially Camponotus) So how are your Colonies doing?
The reason I took a break is because last year I lost all my ant colonies to mysterious circumstances. They all just slowly died off shortly after I'd moved. I had to start over from scratch this year, so there hasn't been anything very exciting to report. Could probably do a vid on my T.sessile at least.
:( I'm sorry to hear that! It's so scary wanting to get into this knowing there is a decent percentage that 1 mistake could results in entire colony loss let alone a loss of multiple... Again sorry for your loss and hope you keep at it!
Sometimes colonies will even crash when you do everything right too. It can be really discouraging, not gonna lie, but it's just part of the hobby. Makes it all the more satisfying when you finally get a colony to thrive.
@@HikariKirameku those mysterious circumstances must have been not giving a shit about the ants.
@@Stoneman39488 Really dude? Lots of newbies lose ants for all sorts of reasons, and sometimes queens/colonies just don't survive no matter what you do...but go off, I guess. Experience and having access to more keepers has helped, but I still catch fail queens every year that don't survive no matter what I do. Case in point, the Tetra in this video never did lay any eggs for me, and I released her back into my yard. I'm guessing she was either infertile or refused to found in captivity. It happens.
Anyway, I still have the Tapinoma sessile colony I have been raising since I made this video. They got so big, I had to buy them a formicarium. I also had so many healthy C. pennsylvanicus founding this year, I had to give/sell them off or I would have been overrun. I feel bad when colonies die, and have been doing my best to ensure that they have the best chances I can give them with the knowledge I have at the time. Like, this year, thanks to new research, I've learned from others that Campo need urea to thrive in captivity. I wish I'd had that knowledge 3 years ago.
Live and learn
Oh my Gosh, it keeps running away
I imagine she thought I wanted to eat her or something.
Mine ala te dint take off her wing ir mate i put drone ants on my ant colony and the alate she dint mate she ran away
Most ants mate in the air. The conditions also have to be right for the species to fly.
you found alate dude
Easy when they literally wander into my house at random 😅
bruh, they can do it themselves and plus the ant could be virgin so you might have ripped the wings of an ant that needed them
This is for ants that have proven fertile, and the wings are just getting in the way.
@Potato Boy Ants breed in the air, most of the time. It's the only time they fly. Also, males die immediately after breeding, and don't live very long if they don't breed, so they are only around for a short time during the year.
Potato Boy bro you got shut down
@@HikariKirameku not all ants breed in the air idiot!!! Carebara diversa breeds on the ground and others too
I found a shoe works best 😉
I just wait with my luck the ones with withs are not fertile