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There's been some interest in the Critter Quest thread and over PMs of people wanting to start an ant farm, so I thought I'd make a thread. I'd post in the invert thread, but I figure a good OP might be useful, and a lot of people interested in keeping ants might not be looking in the invert thread. Getting Started Obviously, you're going to need some ants. For the most part, when people get into keeping ants, they don't mean grabbing some workers and sticking them in a farm; these colonies don't last long and you don't get to see many ant behaviors, just digging. If you want a long term colony, you're going to want to find a queen. You can either find an established queen, or you can find a mated queen. To start, it's important to be able to identify a queen ant from a worker. The easiest way to tell a queen apart is wings. In ants, only the reproductives have wings, and when they do, they're called alates. The male and female alates will leave the nest and will mate in the air. The males die shortly afterward, while the females land and search for a place to start a colony, removing their wings shortly afterward. If you see a winged ant, it's either a virgin queen, a mated queen, or a male. Males are generally easy to identify, since they'll have a tiny head and often a smaller body than a queen of the same species . They'll also die within a day or two. If you see a queen alate and it isn't flying or in a nest, she's probably mated, and if you collect her she'll probably drop her wings within a day or two. If the queen has already dropped her wings, she's a bit harder to identify, but will still be fairly easy. Queens will tend to be quite a bit larger than their workers. They'll generally have larger thoraxes with prominent wing muscles, and will always have a wing scar, little marks where the wings were. Her behavior will also be different; she'll move around randomly and alone, whereas workers will generally be foraging in groups in set paths. You can also find new queens under rocks or in logs, starting their own colonies. They'll be alone, often with brood, and will often be more or less sealed off from the outside world. They'll rapidly try to scurry away, but you can generally collect them; just be sure to collect any eggs, larvae, or pupae with her. The other way to get a queen is from an established colony. This is generally much more difficult since it relies on more luck, though it depends on the species. In the spring or during a cold spell, you may find the queen when you flip a cover object as she may be near the surface with the brood to keep warm. Alternately, you can try digging up a colony. This works best with small colonies, but is very labor intensive and difficult to pull off in most cases. You'll want to dig up the whole colony, placing it carefully in a bucket, and then manually sorting through it with a spoon, searching for the queen. When you consider than some nests can be over 20 feet in diameter, and even small nests can be 3-5 feet, this can be very difficult. Wood-dwelling queens can be easier to find, as you may come across them in a rotting log. The log will often be easy to take apart to find the queen, peeling back bark and so forth will sometimes reveal her. Unfortunately, this can be a bit ecologically destructive, so try to limit yourself if you end up doing this, or stick to firewood. A few species will have queens that leave the nest. Apparently, you can even occasionally find Linepithema humile (Argentine ant) queens foraging in the lines of workers. I've also heard that you can flood out Argentine ant nests with a hose and find the queens that way as they leave the nest. This is helped by the fact that Argentine ants are polygynous and often have multiple queens, up to 30 or more in one nest. Make sure you collect some workers and brood, as the queen can't survive alone after the initial start up period, where she has her communal stomach full of food, as well as her wing muscles to draw energy from. Types of Farms Now that you have your queen, you'll need to set up a formicarium. There are a lot of ways to keep ants, some better than others. For the most part, commercial ant farms don't work well for long term colonies, as you run into problems with mold and humidity control. The Uncle Milton ant farms and the gel ant farms both fall into these categories; they're designed to be cheap and easy and aimed at children looking to watch them dig. A test tube setup can work really well for new queens. Fill a third of a test tube up with water, and then place a piece of cotton inside to keep the water in place. Add your queen, and then plug the other end with cotton or a suitable plug. The cotton and water will keep the humidity optimal and you'll be able to watch the queen without disturbing her too much. Once the pupae eclose (the worker comes out), you can rig some airline tubing to connect the ants to another setup, more test tubes, or to an outworld, and expand as needed. The only disadvantage of a test tube nest would be that they're kind of boring. Plaster nests are also common. The idea is to take a pane of glass (either cut special, or you can get it cheaply by buying a picture frame of a suitable size) and finding a form; a sandwich box may work well. Place the glass down, and then take modelling clay and attach it to the glass to make little chambers and tunnels. Keep in mind that ants like small, close spaces. Then, place the glass (clay side up) in the form, and pour your plaster over it. Regular plaster works fine, but hydrostone can work even better, since it sets up much harder. After the plaster has set, remove the nest and flip it over. Carefully remove the glass pane, and then remove all the clay from the nest or the glass with a knife or other object. Usually it mostly will pull up in one piece and you just need to scrape around the plaster a bit. Now, you can return the nest to the form if you like, with the glass/tunnels facing up, and drill holes in the side for expansion, water, or outworld tunnels. You'll want to tightly affix a piece of plastic tubing (you can get these at petstores or at stores like Home Depot, in various sizes to fit your species) in each hole. Fill one tube with water surrounded by cotton on both sides, like the test tube setup, to help hydrate the ants and keep the nest from drying out. Another can be blocked off with cotton or some other plug, and then used to expand the nest at a later time. The third should lead to an outworld. Be sure to use hot glue or some other object to seal the tubes in; you don't want the tubes to pop out and release all your ants into your room. Optionally, you can add a few other elements. I've seen plaster nests where a reservoir of water was formed with clay in the same fashion as the tunnel. This reservoir isn't connected to the tunnels, and is just used to keep wet; the water will wick out into the nest to prevent the ants from dessication. I've also seen small holes made for a syringe, so that small amounts of water can be injected into the hive at various points (it soaks into the plaster right away). The main disadvantage of plaster nests is that they tend to dry out (the syringe and reservoir are attempts at solving this) and they often mold after a year or so. Hydrostone is supposed to stay mold free for longer than regular plaster of Paris. They're also a bit labor intensive, but fairly cheap (under $20, usually around $10). Here's an old photo of the second plaster nest I made. It was pretty simple, but I had problems hydrating it and lost the queens I used it in (the wick/dixie cup solution was a bad idea and didn't work, and I'd do better if I tried again now). You can also use an old aquarium or a glass jar filled with dirt. This is simple and easy, but you won't be able to see the queen. Finally, you can buy a nest from a site that sells custom made Formicariums. These generally work really well, but will often cost $30-60 or more. You'll need an outworld, regardless of your setup, once your first workers are a few days old. This is a separate container where the ants can forage for food or bring their dead/waste. An aquarium or plastic bin works well for this, attached to the nest with a plastic tube. You can leave it open if you coat the top with vegetable oil or Vaseline, though these solutions aren't completely fool proof. Regardless, it doesn't have to be complicated, though you can do neat things like planting food for aphids that the ants might tend (depending on species), and so on. Basic Ant Life Cycle Once your queen is set up, hopefully you'll find eggs within a few days to a few weeks. Eggs will be round and will often clump together (depending on species) to make them easier to carry. After a few days, they'll hatch into larvae; they won't look much different, but you may see them moving a bit, or they'll have more of an elongated, bowling pin, or "c" shape. They go through several instars, growing larger each time, while the queen feeds them from her social stomach. Eventually, they'll turn into pupae; some primitive species (like carpenter ants) will spin cocoons. Eventually, they'll finish transforming and will eclose (ants don't "hatch" from a pupa, since they're not in an egg) as workers. Generally, the first workers will be nanites, or very small workers, due to the scarcity of food. Once they start foraging and feeding the queen, she'll be able to produce normal sized workers. The whole process generally takes 40-60 days, though it's faster at warmer temperatures and may vary depending on species. Feeding Your Ants For the most part, ants will eat sugary things (sugar water, honey, candy), along with bits of protein (bugs). However, their diet depends on the species. Some ants prefer seeds, others eat and grow fungus. A few groups are specialist predators on centipedes. Generally speaking though, sugar and bugs are accepted by most species. I like to take a piece of Q-tip and dip it in honey, and then offer this to my ants. It works well for the species I've kept, and doesn't tend to leave a mess. You'll want to supplement this with various bugs. It's generally best to freeze any bugs you feed before giving them to your ants, to minimize the risk of disease transmission or the ants being injured. If you have to feed live insects (and really, most people want to watch their ants taking down something once in a while), fruit flies are often a good choice (provided your culture does NOT have mites). The main problem with bugs as food comes from mites, which can decimate a colony, or from various parasitic fungi. For the most part, ants eat all sorts of things, so they shouldn't be to difficult. FAQ - Should I feed my queen when she's founding her nest? There are three groups of ants; claustral ants that seal themselves away during founding, semi-claustral ants that partially seal themselves away, but will still do some hunting during this period, and social parasites. You can try feeding claustral ants, but most won't accept food. If you do (or try to) feed them, be sure it won't lead to mold developing. Semi-claustral ants need to forage, so you will need to provide food for them. What this food is depends on the species. Social parasites are queens that sneak into a nest, kill the queen, and use the workers to raise her brood. These queens are very difficult to raise and aren't recommended to begin with. - More to come Resources http://www.myrmecos.net/antbehavior.html Really awesome ant photographs, highly recommended. http://antfarm.yuku.com/directory An ant forum. Lots of intelligent people very knowledgeable regarding ants. Unfortunately, the site owner is extremely insane regarding spelling and grammar, making the site extremely frustrating to read. Good place to get ants ID'd, though! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2520457 Jovial_cynic's original thread, from a few years ago. You might need archives to view it, unfortunately. So, feel free to ask questions, and post pictures of your ants! OneTwentySix fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Jun 7, 2012 |
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Here are some of my ant photos. I currently have two queens that I collected three months or so ago, both Camponotus spp. In this week, both queens had workers start eclosing; my smaller queen has a single worker, and the larger one has three, two of which came out last night. This is my smaller Camponotus (Carpenter ant) queen. I'd originally thought she was a fire ant queen, due to basic shape, but realize she had cocoons, and fire ants don't spin cocoons. Queen, worker, and brood. Here are a couple eggs, some larvae, and a pupa. Worker with brood. Queen drinking honey on a Q-tip. Larger Camponotus queen The flash kinda washed out this photo, but here's the larger queen when she was still in the original container I had her in. I posted all those in the Critterquest thread a while ago, and things have developed a bit. Here's the smaller queen again: Worker tending the brood. Queen again. Notice how the abdomen is much larger, bulging out a bit compared to earlier photos. She's well fed now, rather than slowly wasting away, so it feels nice to see that. I moved my larger queen into a test tube last night, just in time to see a worker eclose. I was able to get a few better photos, too. Queen tending brood with a worker. Worker with brood. You can see a number of cocoons, including two darker ones that eclosed later that night. Worker with brood again. They kept moving it around, so the positioning is a bit different than the previous photo. You can see one of the cocoons is partially open; they were really struggling to get that open! Here's a blurry shot of the queen drinking. I wouldn't share it, but you can see her tongue in that shot, which I thought was kinda neat. The one problem I have with test tubes is that I ordered plastic tubes, and they were slightly scratched when I got them, making photos harder.
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# ¿ Jun 7, 2012 02:28 |
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Somewherelse posted:Agreed when I was in primary school I must have gone through a dozen Uncle Milton farms. Half the time the ants they sent were dead. I'm in SC, but there should be carpenter ants everywhere. Back home in Wisconsin I kept them a few times, though the species diversity was much smaller. I caught the smaller queen at a gas station. I looked down and saw her moving on the pavement. Since I keep a small container in my glove box just for that kind of thing, I was able to collect her and bring her home. I can't remember for certain, but I think the larger queen I collected in one of my salamander tubs in the back yard. She flew into the water and was drowning before I got her out. There were a number of queens out that day, so I'm not 100% sure if she was the one I kept. I see a lot of queens this way, though a lot drown, too, or sometimes I just see the wings and she must have gotten out. In the past, I've collect queens just by being outdoors a lot and spotting the swarm days. I used to work at a summer school/day care thing, and when we were outside one year I saw the ants swarming. So I started collecting a few, and then the kids really got into it. "If Pete likes ants, they must be awesome!!!" And so for the rest of that year and the next, the kids would look for queen ants; they learned really quickly how to ID a queen. I also brought in Sim Ant for the computers, and they loved that. When I first moved to SC, I found a carpenter ant queen when I was flipping logs for salamanders. She had a full colony, so I collected as many workers and brood as I could. The colony lasted a while, but eventually humidity issues came up and they didn't make it. My biggest problem has been humidity; my plaster nests never seemed to work out right and the ants would die. (Never had any ants get away, setups have always been secure, even when I did have fire ants once with their tiny workers). Since then, I've learned ways to deal with it (syringe, or maybe that reservoir idea), but my original two plaster nests didn't have these things. I also didn't know how cheap test tubes are; I got ten for under $8 including shipping on Amazon. The test tubes are amazing; I've had queens dry out in the starter containers, and it can be tough to both leave the queen alone and water her, so I've really been happy with the tubes so far. It's generally not too difficult to find a queen if you're looking at the right time. In Wisconsin I could generally find tons of queens setting up their claustral cells to overwinter (I'd need to keep them cold to have them lay in the spring; one year I had 20 queens overwintering, but the tub they were in got moved in the garage so it wasn't close to the house, and that was enough to freeze most of them; the survivors didn't do so well in the spring due to my setup problems, either. Disappointing; I had a really neat thief ant queen, too (Solenopsis molesta)). Peeling bark from firewood in the spring or fall or after a nupital flight can be rewarding for some species, or lifting rocks can reveal a claustral cell. One year I went down near Charleston for reptiles/amphibians, and I was flipping a fire ant queen under almost half of the ties near a railroad. I didn't have a container for them, unfortunately. That same trip I found carpenter queens at a rural gas station; the lights were drawing them in. Kharnifex posted:Australian ants Those are really neat; Australia has some of the coolest ant species. I don't know if it's normal in your species, but I have heard about workers and queens fighting and all sorts of really crazy behavior in Australian ants. The Myrmecia look so cool, too! Are you liking the custom made formicariums? OneTwentySix fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Jun 7, 2012 |
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Yeah, for the most part, just don't disturb her too much and she should do well. Once she has workers, you can start opening things up and letting them into the outworld and so on. In the wild, she'd be sealed into a little chamber in a log or something of that nature, and the workers would open it back up. I caught a male ant today, but when I went out looking I didn't find any females. I'll try to upload pictures later for a comparison. I kept him just in case I was wrong and he's a she, but I'm pretty certain he's not.
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2012 23:24 |
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Farecoal posted:Would it be theoretically possible to keep honeypot ants? Or driver ants? I don't know if anyone could keep driver ants or any other army ants; they're probably just too huge. You could probably manage it if you had crazy resources at a university or something, though, but I don't know that you'd want to try it at home if you weren't some sort of insane ant fanatic. Honeypots are probably a bit tricky, but doable; you'd just need to get a queen and to set up the nest so there are chambers for the honeypots to hang from. I did a quick search and it looks like AntsCanada made a nest for a Discovery Channel honeypot ant thing, so it looks more than possible, if you can get the queens. You could make your own nest fairly easily, too, if you took some time to make a plaster mold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WLhAmOyt_w Kharnifex posted:We went camping last weekend and a friend took some photo's of ants I annoyed, Neat! The one does look like a Camponotus, but I can't say for sure. Aussie ants are always pretty awesome, though. physeter posted:What a great thread. As a kid I'd kidnap entire ant nests from our backyard, surround them with a moat and turn them into mini-gladiatorial arenas for whatever hapless bugs I could catch. I was actually able to keep one going for 4 months this way, effing brutal little fire ants would devour anything. But I was a kid and didn't understand stuff like humidity/infection. I used to feed bugs to ants, but never tried anything like that; sounds pretty neat, at least! I tried digging up nests to find the queen, but never managed to. Took a few pictures over the past week or two, but have been really busy and exhausted from helping a field herpetology project. Anyhow, here they are: Here's an older picture of my larger carpenter ant nest, where one of the workers was eclosing. Here's a bunch of larvae and some of the workers. They seem to be doing really well. Pictures with mom in the mix. The smaller queen isn't doing the best, but is hanging in there. I'm not sure what's going on here; it's been a while since I took the photo. I'm not sure if she's helping the ant eclose, or if she's grooming it, or what. I've since lost one of the two workers (both nests have lost a worker, actually), so maybe this is related? There are my two nests. Right now, I'm up to 6 workers (and one dead), ~3-4 cocoons, and maybe 20 larvae in the larger nest, and 1 worker (and one dead), no cocoons, and 8-10 larvae in the smaller nest. The smaller nest isn't do so well, but she's so much smaller, so some of it could be related. I also have been looking for ants when I've been out. Here are two males that I found (one was dead in the photo, and the other died the next day). I had another queen that I found on the field site I was at one night, but didn't have the water and cotton in it and it was dead when I got home, oops. I've found a few others, but didn't have anything to store them in at the time, so there's still lots of flights going on. Here's an actual fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) queen, at least, I'm pretty sure it is. I found her drowning in a small plastic container in my back yard; I was sure she was dead, but she was still kicking when I got her out. I had a test tube in my pocket (I'd just been in the field and hoping to find something) and put her into it. Unfortunately, she was wetter than I thought, and when I checked on her, she was almost completely drown in a puddle from all the water coming from her wings. I put in some extra cotton at the entrance and it sucked up the extra moisture. She then went on and recovered completely after this. The next morning, she'd shed her wings and she's since laid some eggs. Having a bit of trouble focusing, unfortunately. Here's a wing; the others are in the tube or I removed them on the extra cotton (ants have four wings). If you look closely, you can see the eggs. She's laid a LOT of them, which makes sense, since fire ants go completely nuts with numbers. OneTwentySix fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Jun 20, 2012 |
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I don't really know ants well enough to offer too much advise on what works best, but any species you can get started should do pretty well, assuming you find the queen. Your best bet is to look for newly mated queens; you can find them most of the (non-winter) year. Now isn't the best time to find them, but you still can, as some species will have spring, summer, or fall (or more than one season) breeding events. Try looking near a light at night; gas stations in the middle of nowhere are often pretty good places. Otherwise, just keep your eyes open; they tend to fly more often after a rain, provided it's been dry. You can also flip rocks if you think there have been flights; I've seen queens in claustral chambers in the fall in Wisconsin several times, and collected fall alates. They might need to be cooled during the winter, and will wait until spring to start laying, though; I kept a tub of alates over the winter in a container in the my garage; I kept it close to the interior wall so that any escaping heat would keep them warmer, and they did fine until my dad moved the tub away from the protected wall. I lost most of them, but even in freezing temps, a couple survived. You could fridge them, possibly, too. Using a test tube's worked for me, with the water in one end behind a cotton ball; it seems to keep humidity at the right levels. You could try making a plaster nest with small holes that you use a syringe to add water, too; that looks like it might be a decent method, or you could build a plaster nest with a reservoir hole that you'd fill with water; it wicks out pretty well, or so I've heard. I've never drowned out a nest, so I can't offer advice. I hear it works well with Argentine ants, but haven't ever done it. In the spring, you can find queens under cover objects if you look enough; you'll find them when it's sunny but still cool; especially in the mornings, where they're trying to warm themselves under the warmer cover object. I don't have much advice for now, though. Digging up colonies is usually not very productive, but if you have patience, it can be; I've never successfully dug up a queen, though. There should be the big carpenter ants in your area; the workers are a lot smaller. The black ants you see might be carpenter, or they could be other types like Formica or various pavement ants, etc. Ant diversity is really high, even in WI/MN. Your best bet is to wait for spring, but otherwise, just spend a lot of time outdoors, and watch for flying ants. Leave the porch light on, if you're in an area that isn't completely light-flooded at night, and you might get lucky. I've found tons of alates when doing fieldwork at night (or when fishing). Hopefully you'll find something! My ants haven't been doing the best; I ran into some problems and had some food go bad that killed my smaller queen, and my larger queen's workers all died due to a problem with my tube being too small. She's still alive, but I don't know how she'll do, so that's kinda stunk.
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# ¿ Aug 12, 2012 10:16 |
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KiddieGrinder posted:Odd question, but do ants suffer from loud noises or vibrations? Vibrations are probably bad, though they might get used to it; I wouldn't recommend it, though. Especially with a new queen. Ants can't see red light, so the red acetate makes it so you can view them without being noticed. A sealed tuperware would be fine, or even an open one if properly coated with something; some people use Vaseline, though I never have.
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2012 06:53 |
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Eggs and larvae, they look like they're doing well! I just captured two queens a few hours ago; I had the lights on for the dog and forgot to turn them off, and found a pair of ants by it. One of them has since shed her wings, and the other is just grooming herself, but looks like I'll be giving this one more go this year. I just hope that I am far enough south that they won't need a dormancy period.
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# ¿ Oct 26, 2012 05:05 |
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Awesome! Glad to see you're doing okay with ants still! My luck hasn't been the best and I don't have any right now, but I'm looking forward to trying again this coming season!
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# ¿ Feb 21, 2013 23:23 |
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Well, I've got a farm going again, hopefully this year I'll do better! When I was at work, I happened to find two carpenter ant queens under a garbage can, and then later found a smaller, probably still Camponotus queen in my backyard. My test tubes are all terrible quality, though, so the pictures aren't great. Nevermind the dirty towel; I can't move that to clean since a very heavy frog tank is sitting on it. The little guy with eggs and/or larvae. Bigger queen with a nice pile. The other queen; her larvae are a big bigger. How is your colony, Kharnifex; still doing okay?
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# ¿ Jul 9, 2013 22:15 |
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Awesome! Glad your guys are doing well, that looks really great! It sounds like you have a pupa there; most ants don't have cocoons, so they just pupate as a white ant-looking thing that doesn't really move at all. Light is only really a problem for wild colonies that grew up in the dark. You might want to ease them into it a bit, if you've had a cloth over them, but if you never had darkness, they'll do just fine in the open.
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2013 17:55 |
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That's really cool! Glad to hear your colony is doing great! Right now, I have two going, though the smaller one isn't doing the best and she's down to two workers. I'll see if I can take some pictures tomorrow, maybe. Ants are really neat, though!
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# ¿ Oct 10, 2013 03:36 |
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Yeah, the ants need protein, and you can get that from insects. People usually recommend freezing the food, though, or otherwise culturing it yourself, because you risk introducing mites or pathogens. The issue with the ladybug is that they're carnivorous (don't eat ants, but might be able to hurt them), heavily armored, and they're also poisonous. Ants that herd aphids also have to drive off a lot of ladybugs. Find something more soft-bodied if you can.
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2013 19:10 |
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I don't think that light is terribly important; most of the ants will spend the majority of their life completely underground. The main issue is just that they get some light, so they're born to it and don't go running like crazy when there's light. You might want to be careful with the window, though, in case they'd get too hot.
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# ¿ Oct 22, 2013 20:37 |
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Kharnifex posted:As I filled up my car at the service station, Ant queens fell onto the roof of my car, queue me scooping them up into a container. That's pretty cool! I like to keep containers in my car for the same reason; you never know when you'll need them. This one looks like a male, though, with his tiny little head.
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# ¿ Nov 23, 2013 18:15 |
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Pfft, I'm a herpetologist. I just keep ants on the weekends.
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2013 18:15 |
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I think heat might do it; larvae develop faster at higher temps, and they might not go into hibernation at all if it's warm, depending on species (could be wrong on this). Is it a native species, that you know? I'd guess that Argentine or other exotic ants wouldn't hibernate really, too.
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2014 00:17 |
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Harvestmen are pretty notorious for carrying mites, though they're not always parasitic. I wouldn't really risk it, though. They could potentially attack the ants if fed live. Freezing would eliminate most of the risk, though. You could also culture or buy fruit flies or something, too.
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2014 19:54 |
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Maybe you could try like they do with bees. Keep the queen in her own container in with the other bees, but screened off so they can't get at her. After a week or so, her scent takes over and the bees generally accept the new queen this way.
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2014 01:31 |
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I don't know of any charts, unfortunately. I do know that early spring (now) is a great time to flip rocks and find the queen near the surface, though. That is a queen - you can see the wing scars and everything. I think it's a fire ant queen, though - I could be wrong, but it looks about right and has the two petiole nodes.
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2014 15:02 |
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I don't think it would really hurt anything if they were a locally collected species, but they can't mingle with any other species, with a few exceptions (Argentine ant colonies don't compete, etc.). I think if you ditched them, they'd struggle to get set up again properly, but could pull it off.
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2014 17:44 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 19:15 |
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Awesome! I was taking my dog for a walk the other day and happened to find two fire ant queens, just walking across the road. I scrambled to find some trash to keep them in until I got home (kinda depressing that it didn't take long at all) and now they're both in the same container with a mess of eggs. I really need to get them into something a bit more permanent, because fire ants are not going to be fun to mess with!
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2014 00:00 |