Ant Species

After a young queen ant is mated, depending on what species your queen ant is some are Claustral, Semi-Claustral and Socially Parasitic. What the different between them? 1. Claustral - Are queen ants that find a place and seals herself inside the chamber and use her body to feed her eggs and larva. No food needed until her first workers arrive. 2. Semi-Claustral- Are queen ants that need some food. They stay in their chamber nest sometime and go out to hunt for food while raising the first brood. 1. 3. Socially parasitic - Queen cannot found alone; she must enter a host colony.

Species I have always call them Crazy ant but really they are the Argentine ants species. Stings? NO Nuptial flight: They do not engage in mating flights. They mate in the nest during late spring and summer. Location: Found them in AL. 6th and 7th pics are the Queen Ant. Food the need: feed on a wide variety of foods, unsalted cracker, bread including sweet drinks, cakes, pet food, meat and mealworms, earthworms, termites, and many insects. Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: fully claustral, no food until her first workers arrives then You can offer tiny sugar water, fruit jelly, very small insect.

Species: Aphaenogaster Tennesseensis Stings?: Yes Nuptial flight: July - August Location: Found them in Newton AL Food They Need: Nuts and seeds almonds, peanuts, pecans and they will accepted mealworms and crickets as staples. Young Mated Queen Ant in a Test Tube: Can not be kept in a test tube to found along. She is a Parasitic that will need to take over A. Rudis, A. Fulva and A. Picea Colonies until she has Aphaenogaster Tennesseensis youngling.

Species: The works are either Aphaenogaster Rudis / Texana / Carolinensis (The Queen Ant is a Aphaenogaster Rudis ) Stings?: Yes but more likley to spray formic acid Nuptial flight: July - August Location: Found them in Newton AL and Phil Campbelle Food They Need: are scavengers and prey on small invertebrates and parts of insects mealworms, crickets, and other insects that they find. They are important seed dispersers in forests. Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: SEMI‑claustral, She will need food.

Species: The workers are either Aphaenogaster Fulva / Carolinensis Stings?: Yes but more likely to spray formic acid Nuptial flight: July - August Location: Found them in Phil Campbelle Food They Need: are scavengers and prey on small invertebrates and parts of insects mealworms, crickets, and other insects that they find. They are important seed dispersers in forests. Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: SEMI‑claustral, She will need food.

Species: Brachymyrmex Stings?: NO Nuptial flight: May - Aug after a rainfall on warm humid evenings. Location: Found them in my location Ozark, AL. Food They Need: to feed on diet of sugars, protein powder, and whole egg. They will also feed on flightless fruit flies and mealworm cutlets. Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: fully claustral, she does not need food until the first workers arrives.

Species: Brachyponera Chinensis Stings?: Yes Nuptial flight: July-Sept. Mostly start in Aug. Location: Found them in Newton, AL. Food They Need: Termites provide protein + moisture, making them ideal. They will also eat crickets, cockroaches, springtails, bettles and larvae, crane files, eathworm, spiders, centipedes. Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: Semi-Claustral- mean she will need to be fed, she will take prekill termite, roach nymph, cricket leg.

Species: Cyphomyrmex - fungus ant (they grow yeast) Stings?: NO Nuptial flight: April - July Location: Found them in my location AL. Food They Need: use the mycelium and yeast as a food source, but they do not cut leaves. They scraps of dead insects and frass and some seed. Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: Their queens cannot start a colony without a small piece of fungus, which they carry after mating. Caterpillar frass, roach frass, mealworm frass, or decaying leaf bits are acceptable starters.to feed the fungus/yeast.

Species: Camponotus snellingi Stings?: NO Nuptial flight: April - July Location: Found them in my location AL. Food They Need: They love variety of insects and fruits such as crickets, mealworms, super-worms, termites, fruit flies, roaches. They love sugar water, crystallized sugar, nectars. protein jelly, pure honey, honey water, honeydew extract, fruits like apples, pears, or watermelon. (Make sure to switch up food every once in while so to beneficial your ant’s health.) Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: fully claustral, she does not need food until the first workers arrives.

Species: Camponotus Nearcticus Stings?: NO Nuptial flight: April - June Location: Found them in my location AL. Food They Need: They love variety of insects and fruits such as crickets, mealworms, super-worms, termites, fruit flies, roaches. They love sugar water, crystallized sugar, nectar, protein jelly, pure honey, honey water, honeydew extract, fruits like apples, pears, or watermelon. (Make sure to switch up food every once in while so to beneficial your ant’s health.) Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: fully claustral, She does not need food until workers arrive.

Species: Camponotus pennsylvanicus Stings?: NO Nuptial flight: April (southern state early) - June nocturnal flights, beginning around sunset at 75°F Location: Newton, AL. Food They Need: They love variety of insects and fruits such as crickets, mealworms, super-worms, termites, fruit flies, roaches. They love sugar water, crystallized sugar, nectar, protein jelly, pure honey, honey water, honeydew extract, fruits like apples, pears, or watermelon. (Make sure to switch up food every once in while so to beneficial your ant’s health.) Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: fully claustral, She does not need food until workers arrive.

Species: Camponotus floridanus Stings?: NO Nuptial flight: May - Aug Location: Found them in Columbia, AL. Food They Need: They love variety of insects and fruits such as crickets, mealworms, super-worms, termites, fruit flies, roaches. They love sugar water, crystallized sugar, nectars. protein jelly, pure honey, honey water, honeydew extract, fruits like apples, pears, or watermelon. (Make sure to switch up food every once in while so to beneficial your ant’s health.) Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: fully claustral, She does not need food until workers arrive.

Species: Componentus Chromaiodes Stings?: No Nuptial flight: April - May Location: Found them in Newton AL Food They Need: honeydew, nectar, and insects. Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: fully claustral, She does not need food until workers arrive.

Species: Camponotus Castaneus Stings?: NO Nuptial flight: April - July Location: Found them in Newton AL. Food They Need: any insects, fruits(paires, orange, apple), superworms, mealworms, dubia roaches, and fruit flies. They require sugar water or honey. Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: fully claustral, She does not need food until workers arrive.

Species: Crematogaster cerasi Stings?: NO but they spray acidic foam onto their pray. Nuptial flight: Aug - Oct Location: Found them in Columbia, AL. Food They Need: eat plants, seeds, and insects such as wasps, mealworms, fruit flies, Dubia and crickets. They enjoy sweet liquids such as nectar, sugar water, maple syrup and a mixture of honey and water, ketchup, ice cream. Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: fully claustral, She does not need food until workers arrive.

Species: Dorymyrmex bureni Stings?: NO Nuptial flight: Middle May through early summer, especially after warm rains. Location: Found them in Daleville and Newton, AL Food They Need: Fresh water, Sugar water, Honey water, Maple syrup water, Fruit pieces (apple, grape, blueberry, melon), Nectar and honeydew (in the wild) and Fruit flies, Gnats. Small roaches, Mealworm pieces, Soft‑bodied insects, crickets, termites. Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: She is fully claustral, she does not need food until her first workers arrive.

Species: Formica Stings?: NO Nuptial flight: June-September Location: Found them at Phil Campbelle, AL Food They Need: live and dead insects, seeds and honeydew, meats, grease, liver, fruit jucies honeydew, and zoophagy and plants, saps, seeds, fungi. Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: Semi claustral, She will need food.

Species: Nylanderia Stings?: NO Nuptial flight: May - Aug Location: Found them in Newton, AL. Food They Need: insects, honeydew from aphids, plant juices, and sugary liquids. Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: Semi-claustral, She will need food.

Species: The look almost like a wasp but these ants are call Pseudomyrmex Gracilis, also known as the graceful twig ant, Mexican twig ant, slender twig ant, or elongated twig ant, is a large, slender species. Stings? YES Nuptial Flights : March- Nov. Location: Native to Mexico and South American. Some part of US. Found this ant in AL. Food They Eat: supply of honey, and always cut up protein other than fruit flies. Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: Semi-claustral, She will need food.

Species: Pseudomyrmex ejectus Stings?: unknown Nuptial flight: May - July Location: Found them in my location AL. Food They Need: unknown Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: Semi-claustral, She will need food.

Species: They are winter ant - Prenolepis imparis. Stings? NO Nuptial Flight: Feb - April. and December Location: Found them in AL. Food they need: They eat small insects, termites, any earthworms. They drink liquids from nectar and the sugars. Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: Fully claustral, She does not need food until the first workers arrives.

Species: Pheidole obscurithorax Stings?: NO Nuptial flight: May - July Location: Found them in Ozark, AL. Food They Need: They are omnivorous and collects a variety of insects and ants. They loves mealworms, caterpillars, earthworms and any insects and they love vary of food bread, cracker, raw honey and more. Young Mated Queen Ant in a Test Tube: fully claustral, she does not need food until her first workers arrive.

Species: Pheidole Dentata Stings?: NO Nuptial flight: June-September Location: Found them at John Huto Park, Newton AL Food They Need: live and dead insects, seeds and honeydew, meats, grease, liver, fruit jucies and they can remove and disperse seeds. Young Mated Queen Ant in your test tube: Fully claustral, She will not need food until the first workers arrives.

Species: Red Imported Fire Ants Stings? YES Nuptial Flight: Spring and Fall in the afternoon after a rainy day and humidity. Between 70 and 95 degrees F. When there is low wind and high humidity, and usually within 24 hours of a rain. Location: Southern State NC, SC, TN, AL,GA, FL, MS, AR, LA, OK, TX, NM, AZ, and through some part of CA. Food they eat: dead bird, any insects, mealworms, earthworms, crickets, bread, cracker, sweet honey water and sugars and any vary of food. Young Mated Queen Ant in a Test Tube: fully claustral, she does not need food until her first workers arrive.

Species: They are Leaf Cutter Ant for their species is Trachymrymex septentrionalis. Stings?: NO Nuptial flight: May - Aug Location: Found them in my location AL. Food They Need: steel cut oats/organic oats, dry rose petal, detritus, coconut fiber, dried strawberry, almond chips, apple peels, orange peel, grape and grape leaves, blueberry, nectar, insects frass, grass, seed, leaf, and plants based to grow fungus to provide for their colony. Young Mated Queen Ant in a Test Tube: Semi-Claustral - She will need food for her first fungus starter. Tiny plant bits, oats, petals, fruit.