HOW to CATCH Ant QUEENS

Check out these ant queens! After heavy rains in the warmer months of the year ant colonies will produce and send out winged reproductive ants called alates. These winged ants will fly out during what is called a nuptial flight and find a male or female from another colony to mate with. Once they mate, the males will die and the females will tear off their wings and head underground to start laying eggs and raising their larvae. At this point many species can be found under rocks and logs close to the surface and can be collected! This does not harm the population at all as the success rate of founding queens is very low, so colonies send out hundreds if not thousands of alates during their nuptial season. These queen ants can go on to live upwards of 8 years and can lay hundreds of thousands of eggs in their lifetimes! How crazy is that?

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[TankieBoi]

I caught on of my queens in the sink, I was downstairs at 2 am and I found a dead looking queen C. pennsylvanicus, I was getting ready to either discard her or maybe preserve her in resin when her legs started twitching, I've seen this as a post-death response before in ants but I decided to wait it out, and an hour later she was grooming herself and able to walk! She even made a run for it, but I was prepared and put her in a test tube. She's still alive and has her first nanitic workers now, it's amazing all of the bizarre ways that queen ants can come into our lives!

[walleye-smoker]

Rocks are used by ants to use the heat it collects so it can warm the colony and warm up the larve plus the colony

[meganmoore]

I just started the video and he puts a tube in his mouth😂😂😂

[andyg]

Found this channel yesterday and I’m obsessed !!! I just love your content

[meganmoore]

Where is showing us that he captured the queens but he’s not showing us how to capture them😂😂😂

[Sweetooth]

Just bought my daughter an ant farm for her birthday and am researching, thanks fella!

[Yassisu]

For christmas I’m getting ant accessoiries for the spring😁😁😁😁

[yoshistar]

We have Camponotus here in Australia too down here in Victoria our most common species are the Banded Sugar Ant (C.consorbinus) and Giant Sugar Ant (C.intredipus). Both species are readily seen both in Suburban and Rural areas especially at dusk and dawn.

[thepenaltybox]

Yo man, this is sick, could you someday get pinched by a maladon beetle? There my favorite insect and I want to know if coyote was bullshiting when he got bit, keep up the great content!

[myblacksmile]

I am keeping a Pheidole Megacepahala. Nice Campo queens.❤️

[jaimebarajas]

Wow I really enjoyed this video of yours, and I enjoyed learning

[MOONOVERMIAMI]

Hello can't wait to see the video Jack

[Yassisu]

Im so excited to make m’y own ant conolies

[Plab]

I just found so many formica queen ants, i even found one with wings!

[Luna-gdlw]

Thanks now I can get revenge and make the whole colony panic and to never mess with the dirty dishes again

[TCktaRA]

Lmao " I must've been mistaken"

[NovoAnts]

I love camponotus species. My largest colony is Camponotus Consobrinus. Banded sugar ants. Beautiful genus to keep.

[kristanellefaithdelavega]

I caught a queen ant on my old hamster bin, they're building their colony there

[Epiccatcravingforspaghetti]

HOW DO U GUYS KEEP FINDING QUEEN ANTS I LITTERLY NEVER SEEN AN ANT NOT EVEN A SINGLE ANT

[TheWildlifeBrothers]

I’m a little bit out of touch with my ant mating knowledge, would you mind explaining how these species mate? You mentioned that the queens fly to find a male to mate with, but will it only be one male? This was a really cool video, I’m always glad to expand my invert knowledge!
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