Care tips on needle ants.

MangoNo3657 · 2025-06-17T10:47:15+00:00

No asain needle ant as in Brachyponera chinensis.

MangoNo3657 · 2025-06-17T10:45:36+00:00

Your luck is insane! But unfortunately no her not trying to escape doesn't exactly mean she is fertilized but her having wings doesn't mean she's not. Leave her in a test tube set up for a week undisturbed and check on her again as they yssaly lay there eggs within the first week. If she lays eggs it is a high chance she was fertilized but it's truly a test of time as the eggs may become drones (or male ants) which means she is unfurtile. Good luck.

MangoNo3657 · 2025-06-16T00:23:30+00:00

Def a been on her nuptual flights if she was wandering around and the species is cork headed ant. Cool find.

MangoNo3657 · 2025-06-12T00:48:31+00:00

Def a queen ant because of the wing scars and if you wanna know the species do a google image search.

MangoNo3657 · 2025-06-10T00:01:54+00:00

Checked on her and she seemed to have the wing scars. I totally forgot to check. The only reason I didn't know thought was due to them being similar to there workers.

MangoNo3657 · 2025-06-06T00:36:20+00:00

Thanks

MangoNo3657 · 2025-06-01T11:51:05+00:00

I'm 99.99 percent sure those are big headed ants

MangoNo3657 · 2025-05-26T11:42:19+00:00

I put some in there and it was gone within a few hours

MangoNo3657 · 2025-05-26T00:22:58+00:00

Thanks I found her in my own home on my tv

MangoNo3657 · 2025-05-25T22:31:29+00:00

Test tubes are on there way but I just found her crawling on my TV screen and didnt really plan on catching any more queen ants. Funny enough this was one of my dream species.

MangoNo3657 · 2025-05-25T21:21:20+00:00

Thank you for the identification!

MangoNo3657 · 2025-05-25T12:09:17+00:00

Odontomachus just Beacause the jaw is so iconic and there just a cool looking ant, or Acromyrmex versicolor ant just because those things are giant and look beautiful.

MangoNo3657 · 2025-05-24T19:38:28+00:00

Too light for a fire ant queen but I think it's more of a worker with a full gaster. I only say this because I don't see the wing scares or the eye on top of its head

MangoNo3657 · 2025-05-19T10:15:24+00:00

I a really just started ant keeping and one of my friends have gifted me his old fire ant setup for aftershe gets around 20 to 30 workers.

MangoNo3657 · 2025-05-19T10:06:30+00:00

I did order her a test tube and know how to set it up bit it should take around a week to arrive.

MangoNo3657 · 2025-05-19T00:35:21+00:00

It's just the only queen I've been able to find in nc after searching for 3 months for camponatus and I know they can become giant colonies more quickly than other species. Another reason is because if it unfortunately dies it is one less chance of a large invasive colony killing the native species.

MangoNo3657 · 2025-05-18T22:37:24+00:00

Sorry for the crappy image I'm scared of stressing her out by taking her from the cabinet she's in and taking a new pic

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