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Post by Wood~Ant on Apr 9, 2015 12:30:02 GMT
Comments about this new colony go here please. I am currently uploading a video which I will post on their journal in about 30 minutes.
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Post by Driver Ant on Apr 9, 2015 13:12:01 GMT
Loved the video Wood, they are a very active colony.  |
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Post by elitzchupa on Apr 9, 2015 14:05:59 GMT
How is the nest hydrated exactly?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2015 14:07:43 GMT
There is a 'plaster' along the edges which you hydrate, water then seeps through the sheets of acrylic and sparingly hydrates the nest!
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Post by Jenny on Apr 9, 2015 14:43:55 GMT
The two strips on each side of the nest is hydrated by a pipette or syringe or something small. You have to do it sparingly as it appears to be an oasis strip like fresh flowers are pushed into at the florists.
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Post by elitzchupa on Apr 10, 2015 11:01:49 GMT
That fly never stood a chance.
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Post by antaholic on Apr 10, 2015 15:37:10 GMT
Those are incredible videos of such tiny ants taking down that fly.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2015 16:21:08 GMT
That's a great predatory colony you got there. Really love them soldiers, check out the size of those mandibles!  You wouldn't want one of them up your nose lol |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2015 16:30:08 GMT
That's a great predatory colony you got there. Really love them soldiers, check out the size of those mandibles! You wouldn't want one of them up your nose lol They are actually a very small specie! Workers are just around the same size as a Temnothorax queen at a few mm! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2015 16:34:17 GMT
That's a great predatory colony you got there. Really love them soldiers, check out the size of those mandibles! You wouldn't want one of them up your nose lol They are actually a very small specie! Workers are just around the same size as a temnotorax queen at a few mm! could you take a picture of the nest next to something for scale? a 1 pound coin or something  |
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Post by Jenny on Apr 10, 2015 17:07:39 GMT
15cm square is the size of the nest. For larger species you need a bigger nest.   |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2015 17:10:07 GMT
You can see the brilliant size difference between the bluebottle fly and the tiny workers at (being only a few millimetres) . Pheidole are a truly amazing species. |
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Post by Wood~Ant on Apr 10, 2015 17:22:56 GMT
That's a great predatory colony you got there. Really love them soldiers, check out the size of those mandibles! You wouldn't want one of them up your nose lol They are actually a very small specie! Workers are just around the same size as a Temnothorax queen at a few mm! Pheidole pallidula workers are actually much smaller than Temnothorax queens, and about the same size as the workers of the latter. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2015 21:43:09 GMT
15cm square is the size of the nest. For larger species you need a bigger nest. wow they are small! Yeah of course your right Leafcutter, you can tell their size in comparison to the fly.
Only I couldn't trust it, as the fly's round my way are HUGE due to all the dog s**t that their bloody owners don't clean up!
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Post by jimmy on Apr 11, 2015 15:10:54 GMT
Would the nest you are using be fine for my Lasius niger colony with 20 workers or should I wait till the colony gets bigger? |
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