Greetings Ant Lovers, My ants have ‘Facehugger’ mites! The future was looking hopeful for my new young ant colony of carpenter ants, named the Woodland Warriors, which had lots of young and a healthy-looking queen ant laying eggs. However, all that changed when I spotted a huge mite on the underside of the workers’ heads. […]

Greetings Ant Lovers, This is a story of my young pet carpenter ants and their beautiful queen ant, who were in need of a new ant nest location. In today’s episode, I give the ants a brand new home suitable for an ant colony at their current stage, and watch the ants move the entire […]

Birth of the CARPENTER ANTS: After the beautiful rise to glory of my fire ant colony, the Phoenix Empire, I sought out a brand new starting carpenter ant colony to begin a new story of ant wonder. In this episode we meet our young carpenter ant queen and her brood, and have a look at […]