🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Week 10 | An Unexpected Move Into the New Arena 📈 Current Status Queen: 1 Workers: approx. 16 Brood: moved along with the colony Nest location: no longer in the test tube

🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Week 9 | More Brood and a New Arena 📈 Current Status Queen: 1 Workers: approximately 16 Brood: significantly increased The colony continues to develop very well. With around

🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Week 8 | The Arena Is Slowly Coming to Life 📈 Current Status Queen: 1 Workers: 12 Brood: still present in all stages, although it appears slightly reduced because several

🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Week 7 | The Colony Is Becoming More Active 📈 Current Status Queen: 1 Workers: 10 Brood: still present and developing Last week I reported the first newly emerged worker.

🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Week 6 | The First New Worker Has Arrived 📈 Current status Queen: 1 Workers: 7 Brood: still present, with visible larval development The colony was started in May 2026 and

It has been a long time since I've written about Kaleb and Ollie, so I thought I'd share a few things here. Back when I was in the midst of a posting streak here, I regularly wrote updates/ diaries on

🌿 Weekend Project on the Rooftop Terrace This weekend I spent some time doing garden work on the rooftop terrace. While removing old plants, I uncovered a surprisingly large root system — much bigger

🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Week 5 | More Activity & First Reactions to the Setup Even though the colony is still quite small, their behavior is slowly starting to change more noticeably. Over the

🐜 Inside the Nest – My Messor barbarus Colony Is Exploding With Brood A few months ago this colony consisted of only: one queen 5 workers and some brood Now the entire nest feels alive. The biggest difference

🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Week 4 Update | First Signs of a Future Move? The colony is still living inside the test tube, but their behavior is slowly starting to change. 📈 Current status The colony

🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Week 3 Update At first glance, not much has changed — but looking a bit closer, there are small signs of progress. 📈 Current status The colony is still in an early stage,

🐜 From 5 Workers to 500 – My Messor barbarus Colony After 9 Months From just a handful of ants to a fully active colony of around 500 — this is how my Messor barbarus developed over the past 9 months.

🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Week 2 Update It’s been about a week since I introduced my new colony, so here’s a small update on their progress. 📈 Colony development The colony is still in a very early

I water and feed my potted plants every morning, and I noticed an ant mound under one of my large blueberry bushes. I made a special last meal for all the ants under the pot. It was another lazy day for

I'm not sure how many people know this but ants like the silicon/rubber material below the keyboard buttons. I didn't know about this earlier. My HP Omen laptop had this problem. One fine morning I saw

🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Colony Start (Week 1) Today I want to introduce my new ant colony and the setup I prepared for them. 🔬 About the species Camponotus nicobarensis is a fast-growing ant species

The last song of a Blue Emperor, as his time has come. The ants crowded all over a dead blue emperor dragonfly, and long lines to and frow of the ants ran from the dragonfly to their ant nest as they started

"The Astonishing World of Ants: Unveiling their Social Structure Intelligence and Ecological Significance

Today has been one of those days when a lack of interest or creativity lets you down, causing discomfort that you don't know how to deal with. So you go out for a walk, or simply sit in your backyard with

Saludos hivers. Uno de los insectos mas increíbles de este planeta son las hormigas, son fuertes, trabajadoras, precavidas, viven en complejas y organizadas colonias y también son unas destacadas ingenieras