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Reader Question: Ants for Ant Farms in Australia

Just had a question come in from a young ant enthusiast (edited):

If you have heard of an Ant-O-Sphere(eight pods) I’m trying to make a colony in there but so far the bulldog ants are too big and the Argentine ants are too small.

I don’t know what other ants I can find in Australia [...]

Reader Question About Ants Indoors

Hi,

I have a colony of miniscule black ants living in a large potted Jade plant which I keep on my kitchen counter in the winter and outside in the summer.  I let them live inside for the last 2 winters because they’re miniscule, and aren’t at all invasive in terms of getting into food and [...]

Reader Question About the Origin of Ants

Dear Consult-Ant,

A couple of students and I are researching ants.
 
We have a series of questions we would like to know answers to and we were wondering if you could help us?
 
Our questions are:

- Where do ants come from?
- What was the first ant species discovered?
- What did the first  ant species look like?
- What did the first ants [...]

Will Queens Accept Cocoons From Other Colonies?

Today we have a question for the Consult-Ant:

My little sister has recently found me (clever girl!) 4 ant queens from various places around my garden . Being so little she can spot them a lot more easily ha ha! I have recently (cheekly) ‘robbed’ coccoons for them from a neigbouring/non-family nest and put them [...]