The good news is she's eusocail and even has a spermetheica... the bad news...
Once male ants mate they generally die shortly after.
Whatever troubles you have had in romance your problems are not as bad as the issues facing these male ants.
I think the second photo is easy to understand, but for those of you not as obsessed with bugs the first photo shows a male ant trying to mate with a termite queen.
Strumigenys are a genus of very small shy ants with pincer like mandibles. They may hunt springtails. But, really there are very few descriptions of their behavior.
myrmecophil captured these photos of the ants gathered on the long mud tube entrances of their […]
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I think there has been a fundamental misunderstanding about the meaning of the term "antkeeping" between me and the ants...
You see I think of myself as an "antkeeper" because *I* find ants and keep them ... NOT because ants find me and then they get kept.
However. She's so cute.
@michaelgemar @CowboyWho
She likes it a bit more damp and I've given her a smaller space so she feels safe. When she has about 30 workers I'll move her to a petri-dish nest that simulates being under a rock as that's what they like.
When you first put a queen in a test tube: "There is no way out! I'm in prison! Bite the cotton! I must escape! I need to dig my nest!"
After about 3 hours: " ... how did I get here? Huh."
After about 5 hours: "I have to admit, I've made a wonderful little nest and I don't even feel tired. The […]
Strumigenys are tiny, cryptic ants so most photos and observations of them are some poor ant who was just sifted out of the leaf litter in a state of panic or confusion. Or you see them after someone moved a log and uncovered their nest as they run around trying to save their babies.
So it's […]
