I found a wild weaver ant nest in my yard and attempted to stick a camera into it to film what was inside! What I saw when I inserted my lens into the leaf nest of the weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) blew me away! I also was looking to find […]
Greetings Ant Lovers/AC Family, My new dream colony of Marauder Ants (Carebara diversa) has secretly been working on increasing their worker population within their nest, deep within their castle. With a booming colony, and their Queen, named the Titanic Empress, constantly laying eggs, I felt the ants were finally ready […]
Greetings Ant Lovers, I made a discovery in my new FIRE ANT QUEEN’s test tube: After finding several queen ants engaging in their annual nuptial flight, I was waiting to see if one of the queens had been fertilized. One of the queen ants ended up laying eggs in her […]
Greetings Ant Lovers, I’ve caught a new fire ant queen, and I’ve got some mixed feelings. Fire ants are easily the most difficult ant species I’ve ever kept in all my years of ant keeping. They’re aggressive, they sting, the colonies explode in population fast, the queen ants lay eggs […]
Greetings Ant Lovers, I created the coolest ant terrarium ever, a designed I’ve never before tried but always wanted to, and with the arrival of my newest ant colony made for the perfect opportunity to try. They are a dream specie and the home I built for them was a […]
Greetings Ant Lovers/AC Family, This is definitely an episode worth watching! We take you through the new Ant Room and explore the pic lives of our current ant colonies and exotic pets. Plus, we vote for ant colony names so be sure to watch the video and cast your vote! […]
My colonies of Macrotermes gilvus termites have officially reached the thriving stage! Their fungus comb which took months to establish has finally arrived and I loved looking at the termites’ hard work. This termite farm and home pet project started as a fun hobby, which became a home experiment and […]
I’ve got a new colony of trap-jaw ants, and today we’re building them an epic new terrarium home. We also learn about their unique jaws, one of the fastest moving predatory appendages in the animal kingdom, and get to see them in action when we feed the ants. Hope you […]
Greetings Ant Lovers, I have a new ant colony to join the channel, an awesome and unique species of ant that practice a strange form of cannibalism: dracula ants. These ants suck the blood of their young. Hope you enjoy this new ant colony to join our ever growing family […]
This is a full ant room tour as of Dec 2022, and also an update on all current and past ant colonies and other exotic pets (e.g. Phoenix Empire, Golden Empire, Carpenter Ants, Weaver Ants, etc).