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You call them "Fruit Flies" But to the girls these are "Sky Burgers"
Tonight is Sky Burger Night at the carpenter ant nest. I gave them like 30 and they are just ... gone. I can't see them in the nest even. It's like they inhaled them. #antvideo #ants #carpenterants #camponotus #antkeeping
New antkeeping iceberg. #iceberg #icebergmeme #antkeeping #ants
(Feel free to edit/add to make your own version
https://www.kapwing.com/w/8fSB7XQrnx )
The astonishing art of aquarium landscape art: Made for fish, but I want these kinds of worlds for ants. For that to work they'd need to be durable, and on a much smaller scale... but this gives me some ideas for the new outworld I'm making for the coming carpenter ant population boom.
Also, with ants ... they shape their environment. They will tear up your plants, move all your sand. Designs must work with not against "ant ideas" of design. It's hard! #antkeeping #ants
https://www.etsy.com/people/xp4zjcnc/favorites/landscape-ideas-for-ant-outworlds?ref=profile
Here's a video with some narration about the "#ant porch" I got from undergroundCiti a few weeks back. It has a little water mote and lets you interact with the ants close up and take photos. I might modify it to have its own lighting system. There is so such thing as "too much light" when photographing ants.
Enjoy! and let me know what you think.
#antvideo #ants #camponotus #antkeeping #cutebabies #arthropods
Ants trying to break back in to their home:
(with narration)
These girls love their sugar water. Watch how their little gasters expand in this timelapse. I think the feeder will be empty by morning!
(with narration)
#ants #antstodon #antsofmastodon #antkeeping #camponotus #camponotusdiscolor #video #antvideo
Bumble and the Giant Peach
A video about how Bumble the ant with the yellow paint on her gaster has been trying to make off with an entire peach slice for half an hour. #ants #antkeeping #video #antstodon #antvideo #Bumble
(with narration)
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Attention fellow ant keepers. These are not carpenter ant proof. Use a 2cm thick nylon plug. I’m having— a time. #ant #antkeeping #camponotus #sneakyants #damngirls.
Hey, ant people. Any of you try blacklighting in a big city?
I want to try blacklighting in NYC starting in march.
Everyone on the ant forum says it won't work in NYC, but we found a Camponotus pennslyvanicus queen on our roof last summer just wandering around... so insects do fly in NYC.
Of course I could just get 90 kabillion roaches... but I shall be brave. #ants #antstodon #antkeeping #insects
#ants, #antkeeping, #camponotus, #atta, #queenant, #Hymenoptera, #eusocial, #arthropods, #formica, #antnest, #formicarium, #ant, #flyingantday, #lasius, #fireant, #polyrachis, #Dynomyrmex, #Formicidae, #Aculeata, #antalgorithim, #eusocialintelligence, #Doleromyrma, #Leptomyrmex, #mutualism, #Trophobiosis, #Coevolution, #Myrmecophily
Just some stuff to follow for me and maybe you.