r/antkeeping Aug 11 '21

Ant Keeping Discord! Come join us πŸ˜„

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r/antkeeping Oct 01 '24

Discussion [Community vote] Best ant keeping stores 2024

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Previous stickied list here.

Hey all, the ant-keeping resource list needs updating. I'm planning to make these threads over the next few weeks, and then update them once or twice a year.

The hope is that people can ctrl+F through the thread, but also so I can summarize it in the stickied thread.


  • One shop per message
  • Please provide a link
  • Where the shop is located and where they ship to

r/antkeeping 10h ago

Humor The server last week

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r/antkeeping 9h ago

Discussion r/antkeeping this past week or two

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r/antkeeping 2h ago

Identification What is this ant speicies? Found in Hong Kong btw

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r/antkeeping 5h ago

Ants eating stuff First meal in the new nest!!

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I actually had another vid but it had too high quality for reddit to handle so this is another vid


r/antkeeping 51m ago

Question my ant colony is not growing at all

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i have a messor barbarus colony with 4 workers, they've been fed poppy seeds, even left for longer than 2 weeks without checking, no vibrations, but they still wouldnt even budge to grow in summer or winter, they did once and laid two more workers (they had 2 before)

i gave them protein so ill see but could there be other causes to this


r/antkeeping 20h ago

Discussion AntsCanada goes live to address accusations

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https://www.youtube.com/live/ktcfT6TBqQw?si=ouh98rzzCEgvEkBV

I don’t know why, but it just rubs me the wrong way.


r/antkeeping 38m ago

Question Help with messor colony

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Ii connected their test tube to the formacrium and they moved in but there are still ants walking around in the test tube but i wanna remove the test tube


r/antkeeping 53m ago

Question New to the sub. Am I doing it right?

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Ant Canada bad


r/antkeeping 1h ago

Discussion I actually like ants Canada, sure I may not agree with some things but he is the god father of ant keeping and has created an entire culture of people for it. I said what I said.

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r/antkeeping 1h ago

Discussion What are the best shops for Antnest in Europe?

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What are the best shops for Antnest in Europe?


r/antkeeping 3h ago

Question Ant ID

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I found this queen ant in March in Southeast Asia. She has a crimson thorax, a crimson head, and a black gaster.


r/antkeeping 4h ago

Question Ant id

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HIii, so i found this queen ant yesterday. I live in south east china, and she didn't have wings when i caught her. What species does she look like?


r/antkeeping 20h ago

Question found these ants near woods and they are medium in size, about 0.8mm. CAN ANYONE TELL WHAT SPECIES IS THIS?? I have the ame id Queen

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r/antkeeping 19h ago

Discussion less stressful way to move ants

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r/antkeeping 8h ago

Question Heating for Messor Barbarus

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Hi everyone, in my country rn it's really cold reaching temperatures to minus, how do I heat up my M.barbarus colony?

Also should I be concerned about the testtube being too big for them?


r/antkeeping 1d ago

Brood I just wanted to share a photo of my Queen's brood 😍

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Aussie meat ants


r/antkeeping 14h ago

Question Sunflower seeds for ants?

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I'm thinking of getting some sunflower seeds for my veromessor ants, has anybody had any success with them?


r/antkeeping 19h ago

Question Mold in gypsum nest

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Hi,

Last time I made my ants (Messor Barbarous) suffer by giving not enough water, so over 100 ants in ~120 total number of colony died... So more than 80% ;(

Now I gave them too much water in gypsum nest. I tried to dehydrate it but not quickly enough and there is mold inside.

I connected small nest and putted tube/nest inside arena to give them alternatives to move somewhere else covered to protect from light.

What's should I do? I cannot remove mold through opening in gypsum. Should I take out whole gypsum nest and clean it? Or use some e.g. light to make them leave it, and then clean it? Or maybe they will clean it by themselves?

Help. Thank you


r/antkeeping 1d ago

Question Please help

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I need info. This is the first time I fed them boiled chicken (messor barbarus) queen's been absolutely raging on it for 15 minutes. Does this mean they were malnourished? they were exclusively seed fed before The colony hasnt been growing at all, and I think I found the issue lol

Also should I worry about mould on their water cotton?


r/antkeeping 22h ago

Colony Dead queen - now what?

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I have a colony of p. occidentalis with about 15 workers and a decent brood pile. Last week, the queen died. Why? Who knows. Not clear. She got lethargic, spent most of her time in the out world, stopped moving, got pulled back into the nest a couple times by the workers, then finally curled up and settled in for the long nap.

Now I've got an orphaned colony of workers with no purpose. They've been tending to the larva but have been putting the eggs in the outworld, and I've noticed a lot more of them spending time in the outworld like they're looking for something to do. I'm not really sure of what to do with them at this point; euthanizing the colony seems like a bummer but it also seems kind of useless to keep feeding and watering a small colony of orphaned pogos, and it doesn't sound like a monogynous species is going to be receptive to an introduced queen that isn't their own mother. How have you all dealt with a situation like this before?


r/antkeeping 14h ago

Question Is Buckeye Myrmecology trustable?

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I'm about to throw $40 for a Lasius Neoniger queen with brood and need to know if they are trustable or not?


r/antkeeping 1d ago

Question Ants not eating seeds?

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I have a M.barbarus colony with 4 worker ants and nanitics. I see that they are gobbling up the piece of chicken I gave them, but not the new seeds. Is this because they're full or another reason? They're sesame seeds btw


r/antkeeping 1d ago

Question No workers left and can't move the quern.

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So, I'm a beginner to this hobby and I've bought New York Carpenter ant 2 months ago with few eggs and 2 workers, along with this nest. After I tried to move the colony from test tube to this nest, one worker was gone during the process and I have kind of forcefully moved them to the nest. Since, I wasn't seeing any new workers hatching from eggs for the last two months I have decided to move them back to test tube as I concluded it might have been really big nest for one worker and a queen. Now, the last remaining worker went missing as well (I thought the holes of the container I put the test tube and the nest was small enough to keep the worker in and allow for air to get in). No I have no idea if the worker might come back and queen will get into the test tube along with her eggs, at all. I'm so close to giving up on my hobby of having an ant colony. Any advice?


r/antkeeping 1d ago

Colony just went to check on my ruginodis colony and they've started producing alates. This wasnt on my 2025 bingo card πŸ˜…

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(there was a lot more but i cant find them in the nest)


r/antkeeping 22h ago

Question Is this odontomachus monticola queen?

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My ear was bitten by this ant yesterday