Species: Pachycondyla harpax

Their queen died a few months ago and they have since kept 5-6 eggs laid by a worker. There are 20 workers, down from 23 since the queen died. The workers don't allow the eggs to become larvae and sometimes they'll eat them and just lay more, but they never have more than 6 eggs at a time. I'm not sure why they do this. The workers seem to fight one another every now and then as well, but they don't kill each other. The fights mostly consist of them aggressively latching onto anotgrt worker and dragging it somewhere and tossing it. Then they go back to normal like nothing happened.

Video recorded on Samsung Galaxy s25 Ultra

They look amazing.

Checked on them to feed them today and they had this yellow ball that wasnt there yesterday when I fed them. Should i remove it? Acromyrmex versicolor.

Anyone know why they shrunk the fungus so much the past 2 days? Is this normal or should I be concerned?

Hi everyone, today I tried making my first ant nest out of dental plaster. I used a Ferrero Rocher box as the mold. If I plan to place the nest directly into the arena, can I use the top part of the Ferrero Rocher box as a cover?

Hi all,

I am going to start ant keeping, but would love to start with a species that wont end up having a huge colony. i am in melbourne, Australia. we have some cool species here. but with all the research, i still cant find a species that doesnt exceed more then a 1000 ants. is there a species you would reccomend? cheers

they dont seem to be so intrested in sugar water or food anymore,

and could i use my garage as their hibernation room??

I’ve caught these two and only have thes small tubes to keep them. The first one is there for about a week and the second one for almost a month, Both still got their wings.

I also have some small formicariums but I heard they might not be ideal right now and doesn’t have a reliable water source by themself.

Any suggestions? Tips, perhaps?

Hello. I was wanting to try a recommended barrier liquid that I've seen a few users mention. They say use a 1:1 ratio of talcum powder and rubbing alcohol? The issue is that any talcum powers I see at the store are no longer talcum based and use corn starch. The only talcum powder based ones have fragrance in them. Does anyone have recommendations on a brand to use for this? Is it fine if it is corn starch based? I've only ever used fluon but it gets pricey and I figured if the DIY version could work then why not switch over. Thanks!

Worker, found in Poland near Wroclaw.

Thought of Formica cinerea because the worker had slightly greenish shade (mostly abdomen).
Size: 3-4 mm
Noticed vertical abdomen vibration
They were quite confident and brave

This time noticed them accidentally, next time when I visited here I’ll take better photos with macro camera

edit: were found in a ground nest (15cm above ground level) under sunlight (mixture of dirt and clay)

I found my Lasius Niger queen dead, but with two unexpected guests. Anyone got got an idea of what these fellas are?

Got some tetramoriums from stateside and recently the reservoir began flooding. Thought it might have been my fault and I might as well have incited it, as I did move the test tube a bit too much the first time it leaked and the second time I had the heat too high in the room, but I found out recently that air bubbles in the reservoir can cause leaks and there's been a large bubble in there since I recieved them. Fault aside, I made a new test tube, watched a video on how to prep it and carefully put filled and plugged it, put some food and sugar water in, and connected it with some aquarium hose. Got a cover and a light source as well. Wanna make sure I'm doing everything right to entice her to move in quickly, so just wanted to check with y'all and have some people to brag to if I did indeed do this correctly as a first timer.

Starting to learn it... tell me what you think... ignore some of the sudden frame changes between clips, im aware of that. Intend to eventually make a proper clip