Essentially, I want to grab a couple of fertile queens, but I can’t tell who’s male or female or who’s even found a partner yet. There is at least 50 to 100 of them all running around right now. Do I just grab a bunch and see how it goes?
I live in Northern Maine. I found her in my garage too weak to fly.
I was gonna pick her up, but her mandibles are pretty intimidating. I didn’t get it in the video, but they’re massive and can open up completely parallel to each other. I gave her some sugar water and she spent the last 10 minutes cleaning the dust off of herself and she seems a lot more perky. Hopefully she will fly away soon.
I would love an ID if anybody happens to know!
I live in Northern Maine and saw this guy. I can tell from my very limited experience (I could be wrong) that this is something in the nightshade family. I’m growing a lot of tomatoes and potatoes currently and the flowers remind me of the potatoes.
What has me worried is I have chickens wandering around and if they see anything that looks like a berry, especially a cherry tomato they might eat it and I’m worried that this could be deadly.
So I would greatly appreciate an ID!
Quality and style may vary, but the pic above is a good example and only took me 20 minutes to make, so I’m more than willing to pump out a few more!
I am absolutely obsessed with giant African land snails. I have been for about 15 years now.
Mainly what I’m looking for is size. I love big things (example I plan to get a cane toad in the future. Only the biggest version of an animal will due.)
Secondary, I love, white bodies and unique shells. I like designer versions in colorations and shell shapes over brown or wild looking types.
My dream snail would be one with a pure white foot and a unique multicolored shiny shell. I like when shells have oranges or white stripes through them. I don’t really mind any shape.
She seems very weak, and I have her in a container with some flowers that she’s been clinging to from what I can tell she’s feeding, but when I get up in the morning, I plan to give her some sugar water and hopefully release her, but I would love an ID!
I’m located in northern Maine
I live in northern Maine. I’d appreciate an ID for the pair if anyone knows.
I’m reallllllllly hoping they are not a parasitic type because I don’t know if I could find them the proper pupae they would need (There were the very small black ants with their eggs I mentioned in the vid, but I don’t know if they’re Lasius or not I also didn’t see any pupae, but I did see some callow stage workers).
I was shopping online for Lasius species that I could order to my state but everywhere I checked was already sold out, but one that had me fascinated was their sold out Lasius brevicornis. They have the option to order any number of queens together up to nine!!!
That’s what gave me the idea to see if they would show aggression to each other or not.
I really hope these two girls are capable of laying and raising their own eggs and possibly staying together, but I’ll appreciate any info and advice I can get!
I was also wondering if there would be more clothes released for this fashion wave.
Stick around to the end to see some crazy snoot and boot cleaning action!
I didn’t even know we had weevils like this in Maine. I’ve only ever found the broad nosed weevils in the past so when I saw this guy chilling on my kitchen counter, I was like no way!!! We immediately commenced the photo shoot before I safely release him outside.
Does anybody have a species ID for this fella?
It was almost hard to let him go for a second just imagining all those spiders or other dangers that could get ma boy.
I hope he lives a successful, prosperous, and fertile life! (emphasis on fertile I want to see more of these guys around)
I live in Northern coastal Maine. I really wanna know what she is and what odd she has!
I’m so excited the last ant I found besides her that wasn’t just a black carpenter ant was a very sweet and dedicated lasius, but sadly she had a parasitic fly in her Gaster that killed her (I was brood boosting her, but after the fly pupae was expelled from her gaster, she wasn’t moving or walking the same and I knew she would die soon so I gave the brood back to their parent colony).
But if anybody has ID or can confirm what species she is very appreciated!
I haven’t pulled out her tube or looked at her in a month so I checked on her today because it looked like she was doing a lot with the eggs beneath her. Only to find this, it’s not shown in the video, but on the other side of the tube, she pulled out a trail of cotton, and it seems to have gotten wrapped around her eggs. It looks like she’s trying to get it off or clean them.
Is everything okay? How bad is this?
She’s my first and only successful queen please if anybody has any experience or advice it would be greatly appreciated!
Largest and most vigorous carpenter ant queen I’ve ever caught.
Was only gone for 2 1/2 days and she managed to pull this off in the meantime.
Is this normal?
My other queen of the same species is calm why is she so crazy?
How do I handle this?
I think this is the largest carpenter ant queen I’ve ever caught. The spunkiest too!
Is she just extra big for no reason or is she a slightly different species from the other one in the tube below her? They are the same exact color (the other one looks red due to glare from the vinyl wrap, but she’s not). They have the exact same head (except the new ones is notably bigger) and body.
Is it usual for there to be notable size differences between queens of the same species? I know they’re carpenter ants, but does any anybody have an ID for what type specifically? I live in Northern Maine.
One last question I see carpenter queens often. I only kept my first one because her front three legs were damaged and I wanted to give her a chance but I don’t often see them with wings. Does this one having wings mean she hasn’t found a partner yet and that I should let her go? I love her size and would love a colony as spunky as her, but the wings are throwing me off.
Any advice would be greatly appreciate!
It took me 23 and half hours to draw but I’m happy with the results.
Now it’s time to start drawing my next outfit!
He begs us for a love constantly, and if you ignore him for even half a day, he lashes out. And then when he bites you, he runs away crying and stands still like he did nothing wrong!
Also while slowly walking back to you.
Don’t bite the feet you want to stand beside!
Besides this slight rant, he’s mostly a good boy. I just sometimes wish he would place his attention elsewhere.
I don’t think it’s looking good. I wish I had checked yesterday to see if she had eggs but I was trying to let her be. I should have given her sugar water when I found her especially because she’s hurt.
Is she doomed?
Can she lay more and should I try to feed her or are the eggs she potentially consumed enough?
She’s my first queen carpenter out of 3 to actually live long enough to lay (the others seemed to have pesticide poisoning as I did find then on their backs during collection except her she got stuck in a fight pit).
Sorry for bombarding this sub today. I was just trying to do my ant tasks and I don’t wanna do things wrong. This will be my last post for today and thank you to everybody who’s responded and helped me out so far in my prior posts!
We just had a huge rain storm a few hours ago during the day and I’ve been reading that after a rain at night is the best time to look.
I mainly live in a pretty dense forest area with a field uphill. Idk how to find the ants in the tall grass or thick trees.
The best I can do is maybe look along my driveway? Is that all I can really do is just look around for what’s running? I don’t have any big lights I can put out the only UV light I have is a small flashlight. I could try pointing that against the wall.
Essentially, just looking for some tips and tricks to help psych myself up (it is so freaking creepy outside at night. It’s not too uncommon to hear something calling your name from the tree lines or getting closer. I just like to assume it’s the coyote packs).
But yeah, just trying to hype myself up and go out there, but I don’t wanna be walking around like a chicken with my head cut off so let me know if there’s anything else I can do except walk up and down my driveway. I could try flipping some logs in the forest line, but I don’t like getting close to the trees so any other ideas would be greatly appreciated!
I think I stated most of my questions in the video except one.
I’m just really nervous. I know I’m supposed to put her in there and leave her alone, but the cotton ball and water is really worrying me. I don’t know how to tell if it’s pushed too far in or not far enough not to mention the loose bits sticking out.
As for the other question, I didn’t mention in the video. I also got a roll of transparent red vinyl wrap. Do I wrap that around the outside of the test tube or do I try to make a little viewing box?