Camponotus storeatus queen with C. fulvopilosus pupa and worker:

Camponotus fulvopilosus:

watch this Video to see the big workers:

Thanks for your comments.

Bye

Hi! Thanks for the good wishes!

I buy the queen in a Shop in Germany! I don´t know how they get the ants from USA!

Greetings
Mathias

Hi!

Nice video and i can show your this foto of my queen, you see the eggs on the gaster too!

I don´t know why they do it, i see it sometimes in this colony and i know a friend see the same by his colony!

But iam wundering, why your Cataglyphis do not sleep? We have winter, they need Спячка. Is it in russia/ukraina normal that no ant colony do it???

best wishes!
Mathias

Privet!

I want to keep them in a formicarium when i have more than 10 workers. It is not very good when you give them a big area and nest so early.
I hope i get more workers before the year ends. Maybe i have luck ... i can only wait.

Spacibo for your comments!

Poka
Mathias

Hi my Friends!

I have new pictures from my queen and she have the first worker but she eat one pupa!
I think the pupa was die because i had many water in the test tube. now is better and i hope the colony will grow up fast :)

Ok i hope you have fun with the pictures!

Bye
Mathias

Privet!

Spacibo for your wishes.

Have a nice time!

Poka
Mathias

Privet my friends :)

Spacibo for all you questions, i hope i have give good answers.
I hope that Nick will stay with me next year again!

Spacibo for the tripp, Nick!

Vsem Poka!

Hello!

This is Camponotus, that is sure! But this is not Camponotus fellah! For better identification we need the Country where you have them get!

Best regards
Mathias

Privet!

Thanks for your answers/questions and good wishes!

I hope i can give good answers of all your questions.

I have search for a good ground for my Formicariums, when you design this "hill" with Y-tong you have a very massive Formicarium. So i found this Полистирол (http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%...). It is very light and you can work with it very well. I make this "hill" and close all open things with Гипс, i design it with Гипс. My last work was to mixed Суглинок and sand and water and to paint the mountain with it.
The entry you see (Tube), there i can conect a Nest or an Formicarium more.

Poka
Mathias

Privet!

In the last month my colony grow up, i make a new nest and a new arena for my colony.
It runs very good last weeks, before they had a problem with the humidity in the nest, so i make a nest where i can make two rooms fresh with water.
The best is that i have make it so that the sand can not be humidity, look at my pictures:

Here is a video where you can see how the ants go from a "TicTac" Box to the new nest:

I give many food, flys, maggots, cockroaches, caterpillars and worms. I give sugar water and fresh water too! The fresh water is very important, you forget it to often and the colony go down!
Here more pictures from the colony, the pictures are older:

Take a look to the new pictures from last weekend:

You can see that the colony grow up, more larvae more pupas and more worker. I hope it will run so good next month, too.

And now some new videos:

And my last video ist from the new nest, the video is from last weekend too!

I hope you will have a good time with my pictures and my videos!

Poka
Mathias

Privet!

I have many new pictures of my colony, they are many many brood. Eggs, Larvae and pupas in different size. There are very big Larvae and in few days will born a big Major. I have now a new major, he is bigger than the others, maybe 15mm. But look same at my pictures now:

Big larvae will go in cocon:

Big pupa with a big major in:

My old biggest Major:

My new biggest Major:

My big queen:

Other pictures:

Big Larvae will be save with a big worker:

Have a nice day!

Grettings from Germany
Mathias

Privet my russian Friends!

I have made new pictures of my colony. They was born a new worker few days ago. Now there are one queen, two workers, three pupa´s, two larvae and five/seven eggs. I give cockroaches and sugar water, sometimes with honey. Here now the pictures:

And here pictures from the nest:

Have fun!

Poka
Mathias

I think, send a queen is easy and small colonys with not more than 20 workers is easy too. But bigger you get the problem i have wrote!
You must make a box or a tuber where the ants can not shake in the box, i mean that they have a good stand in the tube and maybe some chembers in the box. The best is queen and not more than 15-20 workers. Cataglyphis queen alone is not good, you have some trouble with it to grow up a colony!
The best by Cataglyphis queens is that you dig some small pupas from the same species and put it to the queen. That is the best method, other is to many risk for this rar Cataglyphis queens!!!

Poka
Mathias

Hi, yes many Cataglyphis species (maybe all?) make not a flight or only the queens flight a bit. They most run on the ground and search for males and queens. we call it in german "Ehe lauf / Hochzeitstanz". The Cataglyphis aenescens do it so, i want to come to ukraine when they swarm, but not this year and i hope i can make a video from this!

Greetings
Mathias

Privet my friends!

Yes Kentuki, i only need it for make pictures. My Friend have a colony but the only make males and workers, no queens!
So they go out from nest in the morning want search for a queen, but no chance, they die after few days! But interesting that they want make mating flight in the morning. and the only jump a bit and run, no flight!!!

I will add new pictures so you can see that the wings are to small for a good flight!

Poka
Mathias

Hello Pavel!

I have not found an english or russian link for this method. Here a german link, i think you can look at the pictures and understand what itis "retro position"

Retro position

Poka
Mathias