Myrmica ruginodis Jornal

These guys are the best ants ever lol.

05 may-I have had these guys for about a week now there are 7 queens and over 50 worker. I am keeping them in a testube untill the weekend when i will make a nest for them.

I will update soon

7 May- Abit of a update, I had some time yesterday so I made a nest for these guys as they are to big for a testube. this nest by far is my favrite you will know why soon. So i attached the nest nest on at 10 pm and and by morning they had fully moved.

Here is a picture of the move it isnt that good as it was dark.



Here are more pictures I took today


This is why I like this nest so much 'ABZ'



The set up

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Some of the ants

Dude are you sure you should be putting them in a stone setup straight away..Especially what happend with your L.Flavus... I would consider changing to pumice nests
Nice colony

Hi dude lol well the flavus died as mold grew in the enst as i left fish flakes in it my mistake.

nice i have just made a y-tong nest for my messor, will get pics up soon

dude messor do better in sand but its up to you

08 May- Only a little update i have put a small psrt of the nest on my heat mat and they have started to move all the brood. I fed them a small fly this morning about this big ----- they killed it in minutes.

09 May- Ok I know I am like updating this jornal like evry day but ok. Well my sis got a new phone, so i took some realy good pics with it. well the update is that the ants have eaten lots today [I think a bit to much lol]
Here is a list of what they have eaten
Big fly
2 samll flyes
1 medium fly
1 small spider
1 big spider

thats it and the larve have become realy big

here are some pictures










Look at the queen in this pic



Hope you enjoy the pictures