How To Identify a Queen Ant

Like Pokemon Go, it is ant nuptial flight season and ant keepers are out catching queen ants like crazy to start new ant farms! This is a helpful video tutorial on how to identify a queen ant from males and worker ants. We also show you what the queens of some commonly kept ant species look like. Visit us at http://www.antscanada.com Thumbnail and photos in this video courtesy of Alex Wild Photography http://www.alexanderwild.com. Reference for section on mesosomal parts from Myrmecos Blog: http://www.myrmecos.net/2008/09/27/how-to-identify-queen-ants/ Hungarian CC contributions by Magyar Nightcore Univerzum Want an ant farm? Check out our ant shop. We ship worldwide: http://goo.gl/I4l7Ho Need to buy an ant colony for your ant farm, or do you have ant colonies to sell/give away? Find out more about our GAN Project: http://goo.gl/jzo9Lc A brand new video is uploaded on this channel every Monday so be sure to SUBSCRIBE to my videos to catch every ant video we release! Thank you for the support. Click here to watch every video we have ever made: https://goo.gl/8zNkIm Click here to watch our last video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV-uvaISfGs Solenopsis geminata playlist: https://goo.gl/9sN0Iv AntsCanada Tutorial Playlist: https://goo.gl/eHHrlG Join us at the new AntsCanada Ant Forum: http://forum.antscanada.com AntsCanada Official Website http://www.antscanada.com Like us on http://facebook.com/antscanada Follow us on http://twitter.com/antscanada Follow us on http://www.instagram.com/antscanada Subscribe to us on http://www.youtube.com/antscanada Email us at info@antscanada.com for any questions or inquiries. About AntsCanada.com: We believe ants are the most amazing creatures on the planet, and every new discovery about their micro world gives us some profound insights into the world around us and ourselves. Bringing the ant farm and love of ant keeping to a whole new level, we are dedicated to show the world the joys of keeping big and healthy pet ant colonies. Shipping worldwide since 2009, we are innovators of ant keeping products for ant lovers and museums alike.

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1. I had an ant literally break off her wings in the container I was keeping her in 30 minutes after I put her in there.
2. When i was in first grade i saw a queen ant at my after school
3. can someone verify if I caught a queen
4. I got a red ant queen in my backyard, well I think so anyway
5. +1 subscriber
6. cool
7. When do ant queens get somekind of stealth upgrade so they would be harder to detect?
   
   
   
   
   
   
   Just kidding
8. oh,so i have seen an ant queen but at the time i think it just a majir worker.But now i will keep an eye on her
9. I found a queen ant I don't want it so im releasing it
10. i found one !
11. wait do workers have a gender
12. Thanks! That was SUPER helpful!
13. im getting better at the identifying workers from queens i think.
14. I caught a tentramorium queen
15. I found a queen today.
16. I have no clue what queen ant I have it I live in Canada Alberta Medicine Hat and it looks like a red harvester ant queen but I'm not sure
17. My ant is a bull ant
18. mhhhh does ants live on an air con cause they live in it i hope there not cold cause my classmates and me is uvery hot
19. Stupendous video! Had to look up gaster...the abdomen?
20. hahaha the names sounded like harry potter spells