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I'm wondering about seeds I see the birds eating around here. The gold finches flock to garden coreopsis.

Hey are you still making content? I’ve been wanting to get into ant keeping and was interested in red harvester ants I’m also from south Texas

Hi, what temperature do you keep them at?

What temperatures do you keep them ?

Im learning to bro. How did the sugar/honey kill them. What are you supposed to give them?

Dope vid bro. I live in austin. Where did you find yours? Im on the look out for a queen now. Thx

One of my dream ant species to keep

Dang nice colony much colonies do you have

Highly recommend using a keyboard vacuum for the outworld

missing my boy, where you at?

Excelent !!!!!!!

Something Positive

i love honeypot ants

That queen at the end looks a lot like my Camponotus Casteneus.

Thesr ants can’t defend themselves right? No super majors, no stingers no powerful mandibles 🤔

Harvester ants are interesting. They can survive only on seeds and water in winter ☝️

Are there giant red harvester ants like the Messors? 🤔

My largest colony is 5 years old and lately winged males have been born but I would like winged princesses to be born, any advice?

Hello, a question, can pogonomyrmex be given another type of protein other than insects, for example, egg, chicken or beef?

Also, the water tower pond is only for humidity. Not hydration ☝️

How often should you refill the water tower ponds?

Yeah. Messors also avoid honey ☝️

How old is this colony

4:10 panicky for days? Never hear any species being this paranoid

6:35 those look like milot mix. I use "Rio Exotic bird mix" and my messor gobble it up. BUT i also put in some regular grass seeds too~ also fundamental jummy

4:20 spoon... :) Those long flat icecream or apothecary spoon.. both work

2:00 purify? uhm no. Ants use outside water - its fine. So is regular tabwater as long as there is no chlor in it! (i heard americans do that?!) ... in fact; if you drink filtered water exclusively you will thin down your blood and wash out all those minerals regular (and tab) water contains. We humans are so crazy and think perfection is one single answer. Nope. Life is messy.

5:10 most species do just fine at room temperature but if you have (depending on species) 26~28ish degree it can cut several weeks from the egg>worker process. I also read it makes sense to time those heaters so its a bit cooler at night. Saves energy and the pets know its time to slow down a bit.

Great video! Now I’m not so afraid of cleaning out my mini hearth.

Are you selling ant?

Those workers look so cool, what happened to the colony by now?

Light no. Vibration yes air flow yes. ...... but out over light no.

Any one start a kill counter? Lol.

Man I'm trying to get these started. I've had them for a few months and they have some eggs. Any advice is appreciated

A brilliant share, I don't have this species although mine is similar, Diacamma is my species and it was great to see your ants passing sugar water to each other. These ants don't have a social stomach so they have to carry the liquid back in a drop held in their mandibles. Great to see that happening. 👍👍👍👍

Nanitic , minor worker and major worker. Then the royals elates male and female plus. Queen. How many cast they have?

I’m wondering if in the future. Us ant keepers would be successful at keeping two queen ants of the same species. Like two Messor Structor queens with their own separate nests. And try to breed their sons and daughters with the other queen’s colony. Would that be possible? 🤔

I noticed that you had an active colony in December. Do your Red Harvester Ants hibernate?

Cool ❤

I wouldnt reccomend taking off the glass completely. How did you put the glass back on without crushing the workers? It would be impossible not to. And you risk crushing the queen if she happened to be on the rim where you attach the glass. It easier to have a backup glass and slide one off as you carefully slide the new glass on

Nice. I live in America. But I got myself a Messor Structor queen ant colony legally. The seller was in USA. So yeah 👏 So far, they seem much easier to keep than my dying queenless Camponotus Pennsylvanicus ant colony.

I learned the hard way. My queen camponotus pennsylvanicus died. I gave them an acrylic nest. They’re formic acid sprayers. So they require sand and or material that absorbs deadly poisonous gases from their formic acid. And or mesh for the gas the be released. Acrylic nests usually have no oxygenated meshes sadly ☝️

They seem good😮

Nice

Seems cool I have some ant colonies myself

Great colony!

Thanks for the video. Wanted to see how it is as I got these for my Carpenter and Honeypot.

Awsome queen where are u located?

I also brood boost my trapjaw colony of at least 100 cocoon 😀

I wonder if it would be feasible to use a very thin (thinner than the ants can fit through) second layer of glass or plex on the inside that could be slid out and cleaned without having to remove the glass completely and disrupt the colony so much all the time?