Good day,
Yesterday I went to Gent-Sint-Pieters to pick up the colonie. There I received the colonie from Xtof.
A harvesting ant species from North-Amerika, wich lives in the southwest,(Arizona).
The sting of this red-brown coloured ants should be 4 times more painful as the sting of wasp and the pain should persist for 24 houres.
The colonie counts approximately 30 workers, it isn't very easy to count ants in a soil nest.
I have seen 2 larvae, but I guess there are more, deeper in the nest.
The nest is in a round plastic box, wich has a diameter of 8/9cm.
The lid contains a hole coverd with a grid, this is for ventilation.
The subsoil consists of a mix of sand, gravel and lanigera sand.
Yesterday I offered them a Thermobia domestica but they didn't accept it, they didn't even looked at it. Today I tryed offering a cricket, the ants bit off the legs and took them to the nest. The ants drink the amino acid dissolution rather swiftly.
A worker who's exploring the outside world, you can see the offered Thermobia domestica.
![Afbeelding](http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo199/driegon/fohg001.jpg)
A few pictures from a worker in a test-tube, this way I can take better pictures.
![Afbeelding](http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo199/driegon/fohg004.jpg)
![Afbeelding](http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo199/driegon/fohg005.jpg)
![Afbeelding](http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo199/driegon/fohg008.jpg)
![Afbeelding](http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo199/driegon/fohg015.jpg)
Questions and comments ?