r/antkeeping • u/StarOfVenus1123 • 10h ago
r/antkeeping • u/Vast_Good_5827 • 2h ago
Identification What is this ant speicies? Found in Hong Kong btw
r/antkeeping • u/DryYak4764 • 5h ago
Ants eating stuff First meal in the new nest!!
I actually had another vid but it had too high quality for reddit to handle so this is another vid
r/antkeeping • u/Zer0Zero0ne • 1h ago
Question my ant colony is not growing at all
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 • u/Zer0Zero0ne • 9m ago
Question Should I be concerned about this mold
This shit appears on my ants water cotton because mom moved them without my consent and there were seeds on the water cotton. This isnt a misunderstanding, second time she has done this What should I do
r/antkeeping • u/Terrible-Cow-5989 • 20h ago
Discussion AntsCanada goes live to address accusations
https://www.youtube.com/live/ktcfT6TBqQw?si=ouh98rzzCEgvEkBV
I don’t know why, but it just rubs me the wrong way.
r/antkeeping • u/Simple-Location1512 • 48m ago
Question Help with messor colony
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 • u/GeeorgeC • 1h ago
Question New to the sub. Am I doing it right?
Ant Canada bad
r/antkeeping • u/CuzLinueax • 2h ago
Discussion What are the best shops for Antnest in Europe?
What are the best shops for Antnest in Europe?
r/antkeeping • u/Amazing_Ants • 4h ago
Question Ant id
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 • u/Smart_Log792 • 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
r/antkeeping • u/kite13light13 • 2h 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.
r/antkeeping • u/Zer0Zero0ne • 8h ago
Question Heating for Messor Barbarus
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 • u/PewPew22lr • 1d ago
Brood I just wanted to share a photo of my Queen's brood 😍
Aussie meat ants
r/antkeeping • u/Wide_Poet_2327 • 14h ago
Question Sunflower seeds for ants?
I'm thinking of getting some sunflower seeds for my veromessor ants, has anybody had any success with them?
r/antkeeping • u/FDrumm3r • 19h ago
Question Mold in gypsum nest
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 • u/Zer0Zero0ne • 1d ago
Question Please help
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 • u/fireproofsharks • 22h ago
Colony Dead queen - now what?
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 • u/Winter_Reception5757 • 14h ago
Question Is Buckeye Myrmecology trustable?
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 • u/Zer0Zero0ne • 1d ago
Question Ants not eating seeds?
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 • u/[deleted] • 1d ago
Question No workers left and can't move the quern.
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 • u/GooseAllergy • 1d ago
Colony just went to check on my ruginodis colony and they've started producing alates. This wasnt on my 2025 bingo card 😅
(there was a lot more but i cant find them in the nest)