How to Raise an Ant Colony 101 | The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Pet Ants

Greetings, Ant Lovers/AC Family! Due to so many requests for tips on actual ant keeping, I decided that while I'm busy working on our Phoenix Empire's terrarium, I'd finally release this complete ant tutorial video to help you guys start your own epic ant colonies, so we can raise ants together! Anyone out there catch any queen ants this year? What ant species are you raising? Let us know!

The mating of some insect most notably social bees and ants

Ants are amazing

What happens if you get too many ants

I love learning about this kinda thing I can't do it because of my pup but its still really cool .

Honestly super interesting but not for me. That sounds like a huge responsibility. Such a cool hobby tho.

if i were to keep a flying ant and put it in my terrarium would it turn into the queen ant and start making eggs? because im pretty sure they eventually lose there wings and become queens

My first colony was a fire ant colony. Lasted about 7 months, parasitic mites came and killed em. My 2nd was a black ant queen, but her eggs were not fertile and she died.... but one day I'll try again, I had to move since then my place for pets are not allowed.

just found 9 fire ant queens at my big wall

i konw im late but becuase my house is near a train track and it vibraits the whole house what do i do?

If you are buying a queen and workers online, what should you do then? Will they come with the cotton and water in the tube? Or do you just place them in a small ant farm as soon as you get them?

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i find like 10 wing ants drowning and drowned every Day in my pool but i got one alive and idk if its a queen

3) Stateside Ants, GAN, Buckeye Myrmcology.

Who knows what's the most deadliest ant

my mom said ewww what is this a pet ant no why put it in the trash

I really need help the queens ant wont leave the tube! SHES LIVEING NEAR THE WATER

I was inspired by this extraordinary channel, when I was still in elementary school. I saw your video and there happened to be an ant nest behind my bed.I started watching them grow all the time, I also fed them and the stupid thing was that I deliberately created a flood "scenario" for those poor ants. Because I'm still in elementary school, it's natural that my thoughts are strange. I watched them submerge one by one, I even saw a winged ant that I once thought was a queen ant coming out of its nest. I really enjoyed seeing him submerged (I'm not a psychopath) And finally the ants all filled the walls of my room, a few days later they were able to return to their nest, but unfortunately I flooded their nest again... And yeah.. I'm so glad they drowned one by one. I was so stupid... And yeah a few weeks I saw their nest and THEY WERE STILL ALIVE.. At that time I was still in fifth or fourth grade in elementary school, and even now they are probably still there..

And secondly there was a nest of ants on the wall near my curtains, at that time I already felt sorry, so this time I didn't kill them, I fed them with chicken, tofu, etc. I even watched AOT while eating with my ants! Yes I feed them.. Several months passed and the colony was already very big, for some reason I didn't see the queen at that time... and in my stupidity I had an idea, it is: Destroying their nest with a sharp object, because there was a hole in their nest I put my pencil in there and I started making a bigger hole, and they came out scattering, poor ants.. I destroyed my walls to see THAT QUEEN ANTS.. BECAUSE IN MY ENTIRE LIFE I HAVE NEVER SEEN A QUEEN ANTS. (Maybe so but I don't know.). And there is still another story, the ants migrated towards a different wall, and yes I found them, I fed them as usual, everything was normal... Until.... I destroyed the colony again for the second time ✨

I was very concerned for the pseudo-ants who had survived the previous incident, and the second time they saw their nest destroyed.. To this day there are still traces of their nest and I really remember them because they have accompanied me for several years.

Rest In peace to the ants that I killed on purpose, I'm sorry... 🕊️✨

I got ants in my room right now im put them in a bottle

Queen ants flying

A flite where queens get sperm.

Lol "dont buy an ant queen online" "BUT you can buy one from our site!" hahaha. Im sure this guy is chilling but just a funny transition.

I have a question, when you have a terrarium and can’t afford a water filter then what to do? Please help me.

Where can I find that ant cage

Hello is there any ant keeper in bangladesh or i am the only one.

I used to own a ant farm in 2022 until they all died out even tho I been feeding them, it was my dream to be like ants Canada

I found an ant queen in my house a little over a month ago, took an empty yogurt cup to put her in with a sponge filled with water, sealed it off with some plastic, today i noticed the first 2 ants have hatched and now im panicking on how to continue growing this less than ideal setup i made...

Wow amazing

Ant 101 is a reference from bernard Weber and his good novel " The Ants"?

Thanks! This was so helpful! Ant love forever! 🐜❤🕛

Can they eat bread

Fire ants are common to me but there bites hurt

And I saw wing scars

I live in rain forest as i catched bunch of queen ants❤❤🐜🐜

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People say I’m weird for liking ants if you respect all people liking ants do this:
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ok if there like ants that I know what ant are near my house can like buy a gueen bc I can't get a gueen outs side?

I gave my Queen a chicken when she shed her wings

Today, 13/8/2023 , i were washing my car with my brother. suddenly me and my brother notice a weaver ant queen. i decided to keep it. wish me luck guys

What are options for the philippines?

My friend said I should put sugar water in to start with and I already have a queen in the tube with sugar water instead of water, there's been a mold outbreak but the broods look like they are just about to become workers what should I do?

Am I odd for being very upset that my husband killed all the ants eggs after they spent days moving them to what they thought was a safe place?

Trapjaw ants for me

I caught a queen ant today 😊✨🫶🥹

i have ton relly

how can i tell if a queens eggs are infertile?

Yesterday I wanted to find a ant queen and at the first try I saw her, I could get her but no. I said "I'm lazy to get her, eh. Let her go." Now I'm regretting my decisions.

Can I use faucet water?

I really wish to own a green ant colony, but I can’t have one now.😢