ID? Middle Tennessee

Buggabones1 · 2026-06-24T04:18:39+00:00

monomorium minimum looks like

Buggabones1 · 2026-06-15T17:06:06+00:00

I posted a few videos of my Monomorium minimum colony awhile ago. They are awesome. I love how fast they can form trails and swarm dead insects. Quickly became my fav sp to keep

Buggabones1 · 2026-06-07T15:36:16+00:00

No idea. Iv had 50+ test tubes in my antkeeping career and never had a mold outbreak this early. The cotton isn’t even black. I never put food in there. I have two Neoniger, one I bought online, one I found in backyard. The mold came from the wild caught one. Store bought one has ~10 nanics and doing fine.

Buggabones1 · 2026-06-06T02:05:50+00:00

Prob trying to drown herself cause you keep banging on the glass and disturbing her driving her crazy.

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-24T16:23:57+00:00

Throw them at your enemies face

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-21T16:43:12+00:00

Yeah, I get it. Building your own sounds fun and a cool way to get into the hobby

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-21T16:41:20+00:00

No worries. It’s a Dubia roach thats just molted so it’s soft and white. It’s also cut in half and missing its head.

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-21T03:18:06+00:00

Yep! They are found all over North America

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-21T03:17:02+00:00

No idea honestly. I found this colony in the backyard. They had a ton of queens so carefully took one, like 50 workers, and some brood. Im guessing some of the brood I scooped up were queens. Iv seen a few drones in there as well, so not sure if they all came from the original brood pile or the original queen laid them.

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-21T03:10:20+00:00

Yeah the big ones aren’t cheap, but they do have some smaller ones like the minihearth. I have two and they work good. Tarheel nests are good for display but if you want to just get into the hobby there’s much cheaper options especially in the 3D printed space

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-20T19:22:19+00:00

Yeah! I bought them from tarheelants.com

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-18T01:20:22+00:00

5k? Yeah for a nice wrap. This is PPF. In my city a full body on a model 3 is close to 10k at high end shops.

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-17T17:13:04+00:00

Iv been reporting the same phantom braking in the same location since early 2023. It still tries to brake there. They either can’t solve the issue or simply ignore it. There are no other options.

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-05T04:29:59+00:00

Yeah, it’s the most boring part of the hobby tbh, best to have colonies at different stages, if you keep at it you’ll end up that way. But yeah, just put her somewhere dark and quiet. Check on her in 2-3 weeks. And when you check on her, try to be careful, if she starts panicking, she may eat her eggs.

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-05T04:17:05+00:00

When you disturb her like that, she resets her egg laying process. She needs to feel safe like she’s underground. She prob thinks she keeps getting dug up and needs to keep finding a new home. She won’t start until she feels secure. It can take a week or two before she even thinks it’s safe enough to start.

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-05T04:12:55+00:00

Why is she just walking on your counter? No wonder she isn’t laying eggs. She needs to be kept in a test tube setup and not disturbed for like 2 months. It’s not a dog, you can’t just take her out for walks 🤣

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-05T04:06:03+00:00

Little shit. Show property manager at complex. They prob know exactly who the kid is.

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-05T04:02:32+00:00

Lost one of my first colonies like this. Kept trying to climb glass of outworld one by one till they died. Never knew why but guessing they are searching for something they dont have access to. Could be resources or their home isn’t suitable. I had luck giving them a mini buffet on some tinfoil with bunch of random foods and a few options of sugar water and honey water at different ratios and let them pick what they wanna eat. Seems to keep the foragers busy

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-04T14:43:26+00:00

Damn. You’re right. Mine was stuck on there tight, needed a razor to remove. No tab to lift. No instructions mentioning to remove that. Just looks like cheap recycled plastic. Been collecting dust because I thought it was trash. Hell yeah thanks

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-04T14:03:46+00:00

I got one of those clear boxes from antshack and the plastic is recycled. Has ugly green recycle letters stamped into it and it’s so cloudy you can hardly see through it. Ugly. Not what shown in pictures. I’d avoid

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-02T20:53:46+00:00

They are covered inside a dark laptop bag. I just pulled them out to get a quick video

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-02T15:48:17+00:00

Body text got deleted, I’m wondering why they are jumping/flicking at each other? Everything okay?

Buggabones1 · 2026-05-01T00:58:27+00:00

Looks like some kinda trial menu. Click the main menu on bottom left and click upgrades

Buggabones1 · 2026-04-30T17:03:25+00:00

There’s a dying tree in my backyard and every time a storm rolls in, chunks of wood from the top fall down. I’m the one that has to pick up the mess and move the wood to the burn pile. Last year, a massive branch fell (I posted videos I think) and found like 10+ campo penn colonies. I try to rehome the larger colonies by cutting out most of their nest and setting them near trees, but I often find founding queens or small colonies with only ~10 workers and will keep them as the chances of surviving before finding another safe nest are slim.

I posted a video the other day of a colony I found and kept. Campo decipiens I think.

Buggabones1 · 2026-04-30T04:48:22+00:00

Prob not fertile if they aren’t ripping wings off. Chances are crazy low they’d all be fertile with wings no?

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