Introduction: 50 year old Nerd's 1st Ant Colony (Lasius Niger)

Hello fellow Formicarians,

So I got interested in Ants, watched a hundred youtube tutorials and read a lot of articles...
After that I ordered what I think I need the 1st year or more...

The package will probably arrive somewhere after next weekend...
A good time to start a Journal to keep track of all things happening.

So what did I order that's being delivered somewhere next week ?

For starters I ordered a Ant colony of Lasius Niger with 12-20 (nanitics) worker ants.

- Honeydew surrogate
- cottonwool
- extra tubes 1 meter 10mm
- exta endcaps
- a very small 1st nest with only 2 chambers + sponge
- a few water drippers
- some protein jelly cups
- 1 feedig 'fountain'
- insect tweezer set
- brushes
- Fluon
- 10 extra tubes to catch the same species when they fly end of lujy here in the netherlands.
- some tube splitters y and x and T shapes
- tube connection parts

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The nest:

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The Lasius Niger Ants:

Perhaps I over did it since the ants won't need much more then a tube or two the 1st few months.
But better to have stuff in stock when sarting this new hobby seriously

Any tips and tricks on stuff I missing out on are welcome !

See you in the next post when the order is in

Greetz,
Peter Lunk
Velsen, Netherlands

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Lasius Niger Nuptual flight was today in Netherlands, Velsen.

Just now an hour ago many Queens landed all over the backyard... I caught 4 in Test-tube setups.

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