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Re: Recent observations of ants [Re: OZA]
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If you like ants you should just catch a queen in the upcoming nuptial flight(if you live in the northern hemisphere).

After catching a queen have a habitat ready. Many queens are claustial and so you have to have a real small envirionment at the start. A test tube is the best way in most cases. You can also make a terranium out of a cd case and a few other homemade ways. There is tons of information out there on how to raise a real colony. Depending on the type of any, you have a colony for up to 30 years. It is really like taking care of a pet except for your taking care of a hive.


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Re: Recent observations of ants [Re: EDM]
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Thats really interesting.  Can you define the word claustial, I cant find anything on google :confused:

I would like to catch a queen ant.  What time of year should I be looking? 

Can I keep the colony in something relatively small?

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Re: Recent observations of ants [Re: moonrockmushy]
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I think it is cloistral and/or claustral.

Lets take a little journey...


Any queens and drones leave their colonies during the time of the "nuptial flight". The time of year is different depending on the species and region. For example ant queens out in the south west desert of the u.s.a usually have their nuptial flights around the monsoon season because it is the rare occasion of the year that it rains. Most queens fly after a rain because that means that the ground is soft the air moist. We do not know how, but an amazing event occurs. The particular species of ant drones/queens will leave at the same time. They will fly out and venture away from their original colony and mate in mid-air. This allows genes to spread over far and wide which helps the species in passing on better offspring. The drone dies after mating but the female lives on to spread her genes if she succeeds in establishing a new colony and if that colony remains established after a certain amount of time. Many queens are claustral, meaning that they land on the ground after mating and chew off their wings and then proceed to dig a hold a few inches down, cover the hole up, and lay eggs. These queens can live for months on end without food because their muscles that were once used for flight now are a food storage mechanism. A great example of a queen that is fully-claustral is the harvester ant which resides out in the southwest of the u.s.a. Again, not all ants are like this and some species are much more different, for example the leaf cutter type, which have to take a piece of fungus with them and continue to grow that fungus so that their colony can life on. This is the whole reason why a test tube as i mentioned is a great starter if you have a claustral queen. You can fill it up with mostly water then put a piece of cotton down in it to stop it form pouring out, then put the ant in the small space, then top the end off with more cotton. You will understand this better in the following paragraph.

Ants need moisture not just for them but for the eggs/pupae to survive.  They also need a certain temperature. In nature, burrowing to a certain depth not only supplies the moisture needed but also the temperature. Ants are easy to take care of in general and the habitat is a pretty easy concept. You can but one pre-made or even make something very cheap. The best advice here would be to do some reading first and see what other people do.

There are charts out there to know when you will most likely find species. If you live in the northern hemisphere, your best bet to look is from the spring to late summer after rains. You are just now starting and are not alone, there is a lot of information out there on this secret society haha.

https://www.youtube.com/user/AntsCanada/videos?view=0

Great forum with myrmecology experts and hobbyists. I would say the guy who runs the forum is a complete asshole though.

http://antfarm.yuku.com/


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Re: Recent observations of ants [Re: EDM]
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Antscanada has a lot of good videos. The guy is a huge hobbyist. He was also like on american idol or something and that would explain some of the music on his videos lol.

Ants are fucking fascinating. To watch an entire colony within a clear set up so that you can see everything is crazy. The way they work together and just build a city is unbelievable.


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Re: Recent observations of ants [Re: EDM]
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Cool.  Thanks for the great answers and links!  I'm gonna look into this.

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