r/ants • u/UnderratedActor • 18h ago
Funny 😮
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r/ants • u/500Milez • Jul 02 '21
Official Important: Please read before requesting an identification or creating a post.
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Important! Everyone should understand the argument against the transportation and rearing of exotics. I will urge everyone to read about it here: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/antfarm/consequences-of-rearing-of-exotic-ant-species-t7500.html
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For questions about ants, and identification, please ask in our discord server as response times may be quicker. We're always happy to help!: discord.gg/c7qCmfYqYZ
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How to request an identification:
If possible, clearly focus pictures of the head, side, and top of the body to make identifying easier. What follows is the important information we need to know to help us to identify your ant.
FIRST-Where was it collected? Country and nearest city or town on a map (include location in the thread title), elevation if in a very mountainous area such as the Rockies, Alps, Himalayas, Andes.
SECOND-Habitat of collection, including nesting medium (wood, soil, leaves tied together with silk, etc.) and type of vegetation (forest, grassland, park/lawn/garden, desert).
THIRD-Coloration, hue, and pattern? Uniform?, Head darker? Gaster darker? Legs lighter or darker? Any spots? Also, shininess, dullness.
FOURTH-Distinguishing characteristics, such as one or two segments in waist; location, length, and orientation of any spines or bumps on the mid-portion of the body or waist; head shape, etc.
FIFTH-Length in millimeters. (Width is also helpful.) NO guessing! Stretch out a dead or chilled individual or several individuals of different sizes along with a millimeter rule. 16ths of an inch will do as a poor second to millimeters.
SIXTH-Anything else distinctive, such as odor, behavior, etc.
Tip #1: If you can take clear photographs of the ants up close, then please post them. This would help a lot.
Tip #2: For those who write anting journals, please put the exact location and dates in the thread titles like: Palm Spring, CA (4/10/2004).
Tip #3: If using videos, then please make sure that they are clear, close up, and stable (no shaky camera). Otherwise, they are useless.
Now, you can post your identification request in a new thread (not this one).
This post was originally (copied and pasted) from Antdude's forum: http://antfarm.yuku.com/topic/7397/ant-species-identification-read-post-new-thread
r/ants • u/UnderratedActor • 7h ago
ID(entification)/Sightings/Showcase Camponotus aurocinctus - one of the rarest Campos in Australia 🇦🇺
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r/ants • u/zakihazirah • 2h ago
ID(entification)/Sightings/Showcase why are they acting like this?
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first time posting here, sorry if i make mistakes. every morning bunch of black ants grouped on this particular part of my gates. i hate to carefully not to close my gate to avoid killing them. but sometime a few crunches can be heard 😅
r/ants • u/Titanniel • 8h ago
Funny A Natureza não espera por isso, não é mesmo?
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Estou adorando criar essa grandona kkkkk
O ovo está bem, inclusive
r/ants • u/More-Brilliant-8251 • 6h ago
Keeping Rhytidoponera metallica help
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I’ve been considering getting a colony of R. metallica, but while doing some basic research (I know they are beginner ants, just wanted to double check they don’t have specific needs) I have come across a couple people saying queens only live a couple years in captivity due to queens being an ‘afterthought’ and colonies in the wild transitioning to gamergates. Is there any credibility to these claims or is it just nonsense being told again and again?
r/ants • u/Turbulent-Walrus-585 • 6h ago
ID(entification)/Sightings/Showcase Can't anyone ID this species? Located in Bucks County, PA
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Found two of these in house a few days apart, I usually see them outside on concrete patio or near ac slab, occasionally see one wander into kitchen. Not very big, brownish in color. I did crush one to see if it smelled and it didn't smell strongly, maybe a faint musty or dirt odor. Any help would be appreciated!
r/ants • u/Kekebird1102 • 20h ago
ID(entification)/Sightings/Showcase Is this a queen ant?
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r/ants • u/AntLaboratory • 12h ago
Artworks Turtle Ants Incoming, New way to store and release mated queens as well
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r/ants • u/dankilgore • 10h ago
Science An Ant?
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Been seeing these in my bathroom but only one at a time. Not the usual long line I often see with ants.
r/ants • u/Proof-Performer3226 • 13h ago
Funny Fight black ants
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Even if ants belong to the same species (black ants), if they come from two different nests or colonies, they are bitter enemies to each other. Ants identify who belongs to their family and who is an outsider through their body scent (pheromones). When there is a fight (ant war) between black ants of two different colonies over territory or food, they kill the ants of the other colony and often eat their eggs and larvae.
r/ants • u/PromiseNo7212 • 14h ago
Keeping Camponotus fedtschenkoi queens raising their first brood in test tubes
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Filmed a few of our Camponotus fedtschenkoi (turkestanus) queens with their first brood. Fully claustral, so no food until the first workers hatch. Egg to worker takes around 4–6 weeks for us.
Love how pale the minors are next to the queen. The majors don't show up until the colony hits 40–50 workers, then you get that glossy black head.
Short clip here: https://youtube.com/shorts/Te7I1KaDWRo
Anyone else keeping them? Curious what nest setups you've had the best results with.
r/ants • u/InfiniteSearch3409 • 1d ago
Chat/General 🔥 ants building their nest from leaves
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Found this cool video of weaver ants
r/ants • u/littlefruitbat67 • 1d ago
ID(entification)/Sightings/Showcase What is this huge ant that was with the smaller ones?
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Ive found two so far. For some reason my sink was flooded with ants this morning and its the first ive seen of these GIANT ones
r/ants • u/Personal-Signature74 • 2d ago
Chat/General Biggest Ant hill I’ve seen in England. Is this a generally big one?
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r/ants • u/InfiniteSearch3409 • 1d ago
Keeping Macro Video of Pheidole Workers Tending to Brood Pile
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Species: Pheidole Obscurithorax
Location: Houston, Texas, USA
Video recorded on Samsung Galaxy s25 Ultra
