Ant breeding tutorial

From selecting ant species to building an ant nest, this guide will teach you how to do each step.

2025.12.17

FAQ: Everything You Wonder About Before Keeping Ants

FAQ: Everything You Wonder About Before Keeping Ants Before they start, many people worry about the same gut-feeling que

2025.12.17

Raising Ants in a Test Tube

Raising Ants in a Test Tube After a female ant has mated (we call her a new queen, meaning a fresh, young queen), she st

2016.02.29

An Illustrated Guide to the Test Tube Nest for New Queens and Founding Colonies

Test tubes are the go-to nest for new queens and founding colonies, supplying steady humidity for months with no topping up. Here is how to set one up.

2013.03.01

Simple DIY Plaster Casting

A step-by-step guide to casting a simple plaster ant nest, with exact plaster, water and loess ratios and five tips for avoiding air bubbles.

2013.03.01

How to Move a Colony

Four ways to move collected ants into a plaster nest (chilling, light, drying and forced transfer), with the pros and cons of each.

2013.03.01

How to Identify the Queen in Predatory Ants

Telling the queen from workers in ponerine (predatory) ants is tricky. Look at the thorax for wing scars and bulk, and find the ant that stays near the eggs.

2013.03.01

Why Do My Ants Stay Holed Up in the Nest?

Two reasons newly housed ants stay inside the nest: they are still settling into the new environment, or the species is naturally inactive or nocturnal.

Ant breeding tutorial

From selecting ant species to building an ant nest, this guide will teach you how to do each step.

2025.12.17

FAQ: Everything You Wonder About Before Keeping Ants

FAQ: Everything You Wonder About Before Keeping Ants Before they start, many people worry about the same gut-feeling que

2025.12.17

Raising Ants in a Test Tube

Raising Ants in a Test Tube After a female ant has mated (we call her a new queen, meaning a fresh, young queen), she st

2016.02.29

An Illustrated Guide to the Test Tube Nest for New Queens and Founding Colonies

Test tubes are the go-to nest for new queens and founding colonies, supplying steady humidity for months with no topping up. Here is how to set one up.

2013.03.01

Simple DIY Plaster Casting

A step-by-step guide to casting a simple plaster ant nest, with exact plaster, water and loess ratios and five tips for avoiding air bubbles.

2013.03.01

How to Move a Colony

Four ways to move collected ants into a plaster nest (chilling, light, drying and forced transfer), with the pros and cons of each.

2013.03.01

How to Identify the Queen in Predatory Ants

Telling the queen from workers in ponerine (predatory) ants is tricky. Look at the thorax for wing scars and bulk, and find the ant that stays near the eggs.

2013.03.01

Why Do My Ants Stay Holed Up in the Nest?

Two reasons newly housed ants stay inside the nest: they are still settling into the new environment, or the species is naturally inactive or nocturnal.