Formicafusca

Review of my Formica fusca nest from midsummer last year.

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Science & Technology

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• Antimidation
• Ants
• Ant
• Myrmecology
• Formica
• Formica fusca
• hobbies
• science
• biology
• insects
• social insects

[ERuBI13]

whats tht material u used to make ur formicarium?

[Antimidation]

@ERuBI13 That's pumice stone, unfortunately I can't take credit for carving the nest you see there, I have done some of my own though. Pumice stone makes a good nest material if you can manage to seal it somehow, otherwise you have to add water to it everyday.

[sheeshcodkabab]

From all your vids, how come whn you dig queen ants up there are no other ants surrounding the queen? There should be heaps

[Antimidation]

@sheeshcodkabab The videos on digging up queens is during mating season in spring, the queens I find and show you in the videos are new queens that are digging their first colony....they haven't even gotten their first workers yet.

[Antimidation]

@sheeshcodkabab I figured that would be obvious. Do you know the stages of life of an ant colony? Young queens and male ants fly from mature colonies in early spring and usually all throughout the warm months of summer, depending on species. The mating sometimes happens on the ground or in the air, the mated queen lands, sheds her wings and looks for somewhere to start her new colony, in the case of the queens i located, this was in the soil. The whole reason for the video was to teach you to...

[Antimidation]

@sheeshcodkabab locate queens that are just beginning. I would never recommend digging up a mature colony.

[ERuBI13]

@Antimidation is it a good water absorvant ?

[redfireredfire123]

did you buy the pumice nest or get it for free

[Antimidation]

@kaioh6 I edited the title, i took off the .avi extension and it apparently made it appear to be a new movie.

[kaioh6]

wait.....is this a repost?....