I have had this small colony (queen number 5) for 2 months now, they arrived as a colony of a Queen and a handful of workers and that is...

I've been deliberately ignoring the queen ants I captured back on the 7th of July so that they can have some peach to do their own thing....

I posted recently about the new queen ants I have captured, several of them seem to have had trouble settling in and have been very...

At about nine o'clock yesterday evening, I'd finished what I was doing for the day and was settling in for an hour of YouTube before bed...

Ants are often quite neat and tidy, some species more so that others. I recently added a test tube pod (from Wakooshi) to my small Messor...

My ants need a combination of sugar and protein to thrive, the sugar is easy, I use Sunburst Nectar which is made for the purpose and a...

Lasius Flavus are fully claustral, which means that the queen can survive the full time taken from laying eggs up to the arrival of the...

Keeping a young ant colony in their test tube for an extended period is great for getting them established but it does come with a couple...

I've got my small collection of ants and have enjoyed watching their behaviour, they also have an amazing ability to frustrate me as they...