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31/05/2023

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The Ant Room is a Multi Vender Marketplace focused on the hobby and lifestyle of ant keeping. Our platform allows ant keepers to purchase ants and supplies from sellers all over, as well as sell their own. We strive to please both sellers and buyers leaving all parties 100% satisfied.

25/09/2022

The genus Solenopsis has been known to contain over 500 species distributed throughout the world. Of these species, the common garden ant, Solenopsis invicta (originally named by Linnaeus as Pogonomyrmex) is considered the most invasive.

The genus Solenopsis has been known to contain over 500 species distributed throughout the world. Of these species, the common garden ant, Solenopsis invicta (originally named by Linnaeus as Pogonomyrmex) is considered the most invasive. This is due to its ability to adapt very easily from warm envi...

25/09/2022

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25/09/2022

Messor Ants are social insects native to much of North America and some parts of Europe.
They’re known for being highly adaptive to changeable environments and have been able to survive even after human interference.
There are two types of these ants – Polyergus and Mesonothris. Both can be found....

Messor Ants are social insects native to much of North America and some parts of Europe. They’re known for being highly adaptive to changeable environments and have been able to survive even after human interference. There are two types of these ants – Polyergus and Mesonothris. Both can be foun...

25/09/2022

Crematogaster ants are fascinating creatures that form large colonies. They are often seen on sidewalks and buildings in urban areas. They are aggressive and can bite humans if provoked. Their colonies include about 20,000 individuals.
These ants are omnivores and....

Crematogaster ants are fascinating creatures that form large colonies. They are often seen on sidewalks and buildings in urban areas. They are aggressive and can bite humans if provoked. Their colonies include about 20,000 individuals. These ants are omnivores and feed primarily on small arthropods....

25/09/2022

The Formica ant was first described by the German entomologist Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann in 1819. They are widely distributed throughout the world and can be found across....

The Formica ant was first described by the German entomologist Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann in 1819. They are widely distributed throughout the world and can be found across North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and South America. There are approximately 400 species of Formica, but o...

25/09/2022

Sign up for our private ant keeping groups. Meet other keepers, ask questions, and share your ant keeping experiences.

25/09/2022

The Ant Room is a Multi Vender Marketplace focused on the hobby and lifestyle of ant keeping.

I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can. ~Jim Rohn

08/09/2022

Haidomyrmecinae, occasionally called Hell ants, are an extinct subfamily of ants known from Cretaceous fossils found in ambers of North America, Europe, and Asia, spanning the late Albian to Campanian, around 100 to 79 million years ago.

01/06/2022

Finally caught a Camponotus Castaneus!!!

15/05/2022

Welcome to the world of ant keeping! So you have decided to start keeping ants and would like to know how. Here is the step by step ant keeping guide for a beginner based on my experience as well as inputs from the gurus.

Welcome to the world of ant keeping! So you have decided to start keeping ants and would like to know how. Here is the step by step ant keeping guide for a

15/05/2022

Ants and aphids share a well-documented symbiotic relationship, which means they both benefit mutually from their working relationship. Aphids produce a sugary food for the ants, in exchange, ants care for and protect the aphids from predators and parasites.

Some ants and aphids have a mutualistic relationship. Learn how ants benefit from caring for aphids.

15/05/2022

Carpenter ants are so named for their skill at constructing their homes from wood. These large ants are excavators, not wood feeders. Still, an established colony can do structural damage to your home if left unchecked, so it's a good idea to learn to recognize carpenter ants when you see them. Carpenter ants belong to the genus Camponotus.

Carpenter ants recycle our forests by excavating nests in dead or decaying trees. Occasionally, they establish colonies within the structural lumber.

14/05/2022

Are they kissing??? No, that's called Trophallaxis.

When worker ants forage for food, they may store some liquid food in their ‘social stomach’ or crop. At a later stage, the food can be regurgitated and distributed to other hungry nest mates. The process of sharing liquid foods is called trophallaxis.

14/05/2022

Finding a queen ant is the first step to building your very own ant farm. Queen ants can be quite elusive, but if you know what you’re looking for and how to look, then you can catch your own queen ant with some time and patience.

Finding a queen ant is the first step to building your very own ant farm. Queen ants can be quite elusive, but if you know what you're looking for and how to look, then you can catch your own queen ant with some time and patience. Contact...

14/05/2022

It is by the observation of the foraging behavior of ants that in 1992 Marco Dorigo proposed the Ant colony optimization algorithm, contributing to the metaheuristic studies and to what later will be defined Swarm Intelligence.

An Introduction to Ant Colony Optimization

14/05/2022

Kendrick Nakamura has 43 pets. Two are rabbits, one is a cat, and all the others are freshly caught queen ants he hopes will start their own colonies. In a matter of months, he’ll likely have hundreds more ants to take care of, and he can’t wait.

“They’re like a miniature society,” Nakamura says. “You can see them 'talking' to each other by feeling out with their antennae. In the nest you can watch messages like 'there's food!' or 'here, have some of this sugar water’ as they share with each other. It's fascinating.”

It’s come a long way since the toy ant farms of the 1950s. Today, hobbyists have gotten so good at it that scientists are turning to them for help.

14/05/2022

An invasive ant that can deliver a painful sting has been found in Indiana for the first time, a Purdue University insect expert says.

The Asian needle ant has traveled southern states like Florida and Georgia for several years. But it was recently discovered in the Evansville area — the furthest north the ant has ventured, said Timothy Gibb, a Purdue University entomologist.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An invasive ant that can deliver a painful sting has been found in Indiana for the first time, a Purdue University insect expert says. The Asian needle ant has traveled southern states like Florida and Georgia for several years.

14/05/2022

Australian bull ants have evolved a venom molecule perfectly tuned to target one of their predators—the echidna—that also could have implications for people with long-term pain, University of Queensland researchers say.

Dr. Sam Robinson and David Eagles from UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience found a bull ant venom component that exploits a pain pathway in mammals, which they believe evolved to stop echidnas attacking the ant's nests.

Australian bull ants have evolved a venom molecule perfectly tuned to target one of their predators—the echidna—that also could have implications for people with long-term pain, University of Queensland researchers say.

14/05/2022

A team of scientists from the CNRS, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Institut Curie and Inserm1 have demonstrated how a species of ants, Formica fusca, has performed in the area. After a few minutes of training, these insects, which use smell for daily tasks, were able to differentiate healthy human cells from cancerous human cells.

Cancer detection is a major public health challenge, and the methods currently available to achieve it, for example MRIs and mammograms, are often expensive and invasive. This limits their large-scale use. To bypass these constraints, alternative methods are being studied, like the use of animals' s...

14/05/2022

Red fire ants originally had only colonies with one queen. The team previously discovered that about one million years ago, a new social form evolved where colonies could have dozens of queens. A particular version of a large section of chromosome, named the "social supergene", includes the genetic information necessary to make workers accept more than one queen.

Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have discovered that a new form of ant society spread across species. They found that after the new form of society evolved in one species, a "social supergene" carrying the instruction-set for the new social form spread into other species. This spread...

14/05/2022

When crazy ants roll into new parts of Texas, the invasive species wipe out local insects and lizards, drive away birds, and even blind baby rabbits by spewing acid in their eyes.

14/05/2022

APHIS issues permits for the import, transit and release of regulated animals, animal products, veterinary biologics, plants, plant products, pests, organisms, soil, and genetically engineered organisms.

ePermits is a web-based system that allows users to submit import/interstate movement/transit/release permit applications, track applications, apply for renewals and amendments, and receive copies of their permits.

The .gov means it’s official. Federal government websites always use a .gov or .mil domain. Before sharing sensitive information online, make sure you’re on a .gov or .mil site by inspecting your browser’s address (or “location”) bar.

14/05/2022

We know now that ants do not perform as specialised factory workers. Instead ants switch tasks. An ant’s role changes as it grows older and as changing conditions shift the colony’s needs. An ant that feeds the larvae one week might go out to get food the next.

Yet in an ant colony, no one is in charge or tells another what to do. So what determines which ant does which task, and when ants switch roles?

The ant colony has often served as a metaphor for human order and hierarchy. But real ant society is radical to its core

14/05/2022

Arizona Is an Ant Keeper’s Paradise
Roughly 12,000 species of ants are known to exist; in the US, species number around 1,000. Scientists have identified a jaw-dropping 352 ant species in Arizona.

In the Chiricahua Mountains, 187 species of ants are thriving – or at least living reasonably comfortable lives. The sky islands provide huge insect diversity, while desert ants have evolved to survive both cold nights and scorching days.

Ants have one redeeming feature: they resemble humans. Ants wage wars, enslave their captives, raise and keep other creatures, farm, and demonstrate complex communication systems.

14/05/2022

An ant colony comes into existence following a series of phases. These stages aren't as simple as you think. Come see the 7 reasons why in Ant Keeping Eggs.

14/05/2022

Immerse yourself in the world of ants at the World's Largest Ant Farm, Presented by Terminix. The record-breaking ant farm, measuring 4-feet long by 3-feet high by 3-inches wide, will serve as a temporary educational exhibit, exploring the natural tunneling of ants and their behaviors.

Immerse yourself in the world of ants at the World's Largest Ant Farm, Presented by Terminix. The record-breaking ant farm, measuring 4-feet long by 3-feet high by 3-inches wide, will serve as a temporary educational exhibit, exploring the natural tunneling of ants and their behaviors. The exhibit w...

14/05/2022

A list of the main Ant Species in the World. Learn about how they survive in their different environments. Complete with Pictures, Facts and Videos.

14/05/2022

Types of Ants With Identification and Pictures (Identification Chart)