I use a self made ant vacuum to collect them I just make 2 wholes in a lid of a jar, 1 big hole and one smaller hole Then I get a tube and a smaller tube and I put them in the holes Then you can just suck the small tube and you pu the bigger tube behind the queen and she will be sucked up and catched into the jar😊
Ive tried probably 25 times with a test tube setup for the Campo. Penn. queens I catch. The cotton balls always get dirty and the ants die. I wish I could get one colony going. Best I had was queen with 20ish workers. Maybe I will have better results with this.
@silasfoulon I tried a few alternatives for test tubes as well. I keep the temperatures good, but it always ends up with them dying. I stopped trying because I felt like I was just killing queens.
Hey again!😅 If you go to a walnut tree, and break the sticks, there is a big chance that u will find a queen, There can be Colobobsis, Themnothorax, Camponotus, Dolichoderus, and I even found Lasius in the sticks, but also, i dont know where you live, these are in my country, in yours there might be even more!😅❤
Hey! I dont know if you can, but u should give cockroaches/crickets to your ants, there is so much more protein in them, it will give their colony a boost
@@AntsBritania Your welcome!😁 And also if you dont want to breed them, you can just buy them, put them in the fridge and when u are feeding, you just get them out of the fridge, and wait for them to warm up😆😄
You can do good videos without clickbait, you've done it before, and I'm sure you'll do it again. Please avoid this, I tend to recommend your channel to beginning antkeepers, and clickbaity fakeouts are not what I want them seeing :/
Temnothorax are escape artists be very careful. Had a colony in a walnut shell temporarily in a ziplock sandwich bag while I got a setup thrown together. The next day they were gone. Eventually found a super small hole in the baggie.
The ant nests and arenas are quite expensive, but their special quality is impressive, as they are made of very high-quality glass. They are nice to look at and offer the best protection against escape. On the other hand, I don't think much of acrylic products like those from Wakooshi (screwed acrylic glass panels that warp when exposed to moisture and give the ants the chance to escape).
@AntsBritania could I ask for tips? I have a colony of black garden ants on my yard on a tree stump. I give them much credit for keeping the yard clean. I want to keep the colony on my yard, but sadly the tree stump they inhabit must be destroyed. I would not also want to move them anywhere else in my yard. Do you have any tips of removing the tree stump while still keeping the colony active and healthy? One thing I thought about was to remove the stump bit by bit giving them time to dig deeper into the stump. but do you recon this would work? PS. it was surprising that every time I googled "how to move ant colony" and similar the results are all about destroying the colony and not exactly moving them.
Hello, thank you for taking the time to write this comment. Seems like you’re in a pickle there. The only way you can make them move is by creating a less favourable environment for nesting. Like you said, removing the stump bit by bit may be the best option. If you could dig around the stump, uproot it & move it as a whole, that may be better. Let me know how you get on - Cam
