CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What ants should a beginner raise?

1. Is it worth cultivating the beautiful ants of the Little Ant Kingdom?

The beautiful ants in the small ant kingdom are worth cultivating.

The Beautiful Ant is a must-have ant for novices. It looks very beautiful and is positioned as a transport ant. Its strength is average, but its speed is extremely fast and it can take the lead in output.

2. Are burrowing ants easy to raise?

Because 70% of the ants in the school are burrowing ants, so I can pick up new queens every year from May to July. I picked one up before and gave it to a classmate to raise. Unexpectedly, it became a solitary queen. So I dug some big cocoons from the school and some small cocoons near my home, planning to give them to it. Unexpectedly, the acceptance rate was 100%, even the new worker ants and ordinary worker ants accepted it. As soon as the new worker ants came in, I cleaned its body, but the ordinary worker ants were a bit shy. I wanted to feed it all the time, but it kept avoiding me.

In the past two years, I have collected at least 20 new ants, and none of them died suddenly. Most of the small groups that grew up were released by me. I think digging ants are the most suitable ants for new ants to raise. They are simpler species than harvester ants. Because they are widely distributed, they can survive the early stage by finding a nest and digging some cocoons anywhere.

It is my favorite ant species because it is drought-resistant, tough, bold, not afraid of light or shock, likes sweets, runs fast, and has a wide distribution.

3. Which type of ants can reproduce the fastest for beginners?

Fire ants have strong adaptability and reproductive capacity.

Red fire ants have a strong ability to survive. They are typical omnivores and will eat almost anything. Almost anything that can be eaten can become food in their mouths. In addition to invertebrates led by insects, they will also eat the corpses and carrion of mammals, as well as up to 149 kinds of flower and grass seeds and 57 kinds of crops. At the same time, they will also "graze" aphids, scale insects, etc. to suck honeydew, sugars and amino acids. Of course, if they encounter eggs of birds and reptiles, they will never let them go.

4. Which medium-sized ants are suitable for beginners to raise?

The big-headed ant enters the nest and feeds once every 24 hours

When raising big-headed ants, you should pay attention to:

Clean up garbage more often. If you place food with high humidity, take it out every other day. Keep the nest moisturized. Ant feeding recipes: cockroaches, Dubia, noodles, shrimp meat, sugar water, various nutrient solutions, and rock sugar for emergency use, etc.

Small ants don't eat a lot. For example, 200 workers should feed cockroaches of 1 cm in size, and kill them and feed one a day. Cut off two ants a day and feed them! Try to finish the food within 24 hours, because if you don't finish it and don't clean it up in time, it will cause mites to explode.

5. Are the completely different blind leaf-cutter ants suitable for beginners to raise?

The Allopathic Blind Leafcutter Ant is a relatively unique ant species. For novices, it is not recommended to choose Allopathic Blind Leafcutter Ant as a breeding object. Because the breeding and reproduction of Allopathic Blind Leafcutter Ant is difficult, it is necessary to strictly control environmental parameters such as temperature and humidity, and provide nests and food suitable for ant life. For inexperienced novices, it is difficult to ensure that these conditions are met, which can easily lead to the death or poor growth of ants.

Therefore, it is recommended that novices start with some easier-to-breed varieties and gradually accumulate experience and skills.

6. What kind of ants are good for beginners to raise?

Find some easy-to-raise varieties, such as Nicobar, Bighead, Harvest, etc., and start with a colony. Never use Ant Workshop.

7. What are the top ten ants suitable for beginners?

10: Red-footed ant

The largest ant in China (the hunting sickle does not count the teeth), looks like a small tank, moves slowly, has high defense, spits foam, and is quite interesting. It has a long lifespan and is not easy to die suddenly.

9: Red-headed Camponotus

It was once the largest bow-backed ant in China, until the narrow-necked ant was discovered in China. In fact, it is about the same size as the Chinese bow-backed ant, but its color is more beautiful, its temperament is ferocious, and its combat effectiveness is very high.

8: Scythe Ant

It is called the alien ant. It has a unique appearance and a huge body. It likes to fight alone and prefers fast-moving ants such as cockroaches and crickets. It has good eyesight and is not afraid of people. It will shake its butt to prepare for an attack when tweezers are approached. It has the ability to jump and can climb smooth walls. It is a very interesting ant.

7: Red and black slender ant

There is a kind of ant that I particularly like. If it were not for its poisonous nature, it would be ranked second. It is full of energy and is a warlike creature. Once it touches its prey, it will bite it and hold on to it without letting go. It will sting you with a needle in the butt to inject poison. You must pay attention to safety when raising it. People with allergies should never raise it. It has a record of eating the whole village.

6: Chinese four-segmented big-headed ant

Another domestic pride, the world's largest big-headed ant, the queen ant is super big. Although the soldier ants are about one millimeter smaller than the Smith ant, I personally prefer the feeling of the bigger queen ant, and the color is also better looking.

5: The blind leafcutter ant

The All-Different is one of the prides of China. It is huge in size and has unique differentiation, which makes foreign ant lovers envious (?). If it were not difficult to raise and prone to mites, I would rank it second.

4: Nicobar bow-backed ant (body colors include fiery red, orange, and miner)

This ant has beautiful and varied colors. It is easy to raise, but it is a bit homebound, especially in small colonies. It basically stays in the nest without moving.

3: All kinds of Xinjiang harvester ants (excluding white thorn)

Because there are many varieties of Xinjiang harvester ants, many ant dealers do not take them for identification, and just write wine red, brown artisan harvester ants, etc., but some are really beautiful and easy to raise. If you don't care about the real variety, it's still a good buy. The exception is the white thorn because this type of harvester ant likes to collect seeds of plants in the white thorn family. It is more difficult to buy, basically it is a larger needle hair, the price is dozens of times more expensive, and the cost performance and ornamental value are low.

2: Camponotus fischerii

This year, someone collected 10,000 new ants in the wild, causing the market to be saturated and prices to plummet. This is a benefit for novices. It is one of the most beautiful ants in China. It is slightly more difficult to raise than the all-yellow ants, and the sterilization rate is higher, but due to the low price, it is still highly recommended for breeding!

1: Central Asian bow-backed ant Commercial name: All-yellow Turkish bow-backed ant

8. Which ants are easy to raise?

Answer: Polyrhachis nigromaculata

(Alias: Two-toothed Polyspinous Ant), a member of the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera. This species of animal is found in Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, Hunan, Taiwan, Yunnan, and Zhejiang in China.

Adults of the Pseudo-Black Polyrhachis ants are black, sometimes with brownish tinge. The spines on the pronotum extend forward and outward, slightly bent downward, and the spines on the thoracic and abdominal segments are erect, separated from each other, and bent outward. The whole body is densely covered with light yellow soft hairs, with sparse hairs on the head and silver-gray posterior abdomen. It is a carnivore and herbivore species, and likes to eat the honeydew secreted by aphids and scale insects.

9. A novice wants to raise Nicobar ants. Are they easy to raise?

Easy to raise

Camponotus is the largest genus of Asian Formicidae. Ants in this genus are found all over the world, with more than 2,000 subspecies and variants, including about 50 genera. However, this genus is currently very confusing and no systematic research has been conducted on it.

Among the many species, the easiest to raise is our protagonist today - Nicobar's bow-backed ant. Because it is not afraid of light, is bold, and has strong adaptability, it has become an entry-level pet for ant lovers and one of the first choices for those who are new to the circle.

Nicobar camptostomes are a common nocturnal arboreal ant species in southern my country. They often build nests in dead wood, tree roots, and underground bamboos. They are distributed in Henan, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan, and Taiwan in my country. They can be seen in both cities and suburbs.

10. Which type of ants are the most ornamental?

Fischer's Camponotus: A typical arid pet ant species, with bright, colorful and beautiful body color. It is a very easy species to raise, and its appearance is very high. It was once called the most beautiful ant species in my country. Many players mistakenly think it is the all-yellow Turkish Camponotus, but in fact they are completely different species.

Yellow Ant

Yellow ants: It is easy to raise artificially, grows and reproduces quickly, is easy to manage, and has a high survival rate. They use the silk of their larvae to roll up leaves to build nests, which are inverted cones and hang on branches 6-10 meters above the ground. They are ferocious by nature and are good at preying on various insects. 1,700 years ago, my country used them to control citrus pests, which is the oldest precedent in the world for biological pest control.

Beautiful and fierce, very unique. They use silk spun by larvae to weave nests on trees. They will eat any meat, and even often prey on other ants, and the number is amazing. It is just more troublesome to raise them artificially, but this difficulty can't resist the enthusiasm of ant lovers.

Thompson's ant

Thompson's Polyspinous Ant: It can harm attackers with formic acid, which can be sprayed up to half a meter away. With this secret weapon, they no longer need to bite as a means of attack, so they almost never bite people. Of course, the pairs of spikes on its body are also good defensive weapons.

Ant Power is a very common pet ant. It is widely distributed in southern Asia. It builds nests in trees and uses its larvae to spin silk to weave nests. Because it is very easy to raise, it is often raised for fun.

Bigtooth Ant

Big-toothed ant: The latest scientific research shows that the big-toothed ant is the fastest attacking animal on earth. Its jaws close faster than any other ant in the world, and it can close its mouth and bite its prey in 0.13 milliseconds, which is 2,300 times faster than a human blink. In addition, it has a stinger at the end of its abdomen, which will cause obvious pain after being stung, but will not cause much harm to the human body.

They have attracted countless fans because of their cool looks, and their upper jaws are said to close faster than any other animal, and they can even bounce! However, their adaptability is relatively poor and they are difficult to keep, otherwise they would be more popular!

Red-legged Ant

Red-footed ant: It is a predatory and carnivorous ant with a fierce temperament, a stout body and a mighty appearance. It mainly moves on the ground, but can also climb trees to forage and prey on the larvae of pine caterpillars. It can spray foam, which is very interesting. It can also scream to warn intruders. It has poor climbing ability and is relatively easy to raise.

They have strong single combat ability, hard body wall, and are very ferocious. They often fight with their prey alone, and are known as "lone rangers". Because they have poor wall climbing ability and are easy to feed, there are many enthusiasts who raise them.

Red-headed Camponotus

Red-headed bow-backed ant: Known as the largest ant in my country. Large worker ants are strong and sturdy, with well-developed heads and powerful mandibles. Small worker ants are slightly slender. The queen ant is as sturdy as the large worker ants, but larger in size, with a thicker and larger chest and abdomen, and has wing marks, making it easy to identify.

The largest ant in China has a huge and sturdy body and a gorgeous red head. When you see them in person, you will be shocked! Although not many people are interested in raising them, it is inevitable that they will become popular.

Chinese four-segmented big-headed ant

Chinese four-segmented big-headed ants: They have similar habits to other species of the same genus, but they are larger and more aggressive. They also march in formation, reproduce quickly, and mature colonies can number tens of thousands. They have the habit of building special plank roads near the surface.

It is a typical representative of team spirit, with soldier ant levels, clear division of labor and cooperation, and its behavior habits contain a lot of wisdom, and its evolution level is very high. This is also the main reason why players like to play and raise it.

Blind leafcutter ant

The completely different blind leafcutter ants: They are highly evolved, have a very clear division of labor, have specialized soldier ants, and are very ornamental. When the temperature, humidity, and food are suitable, they are very prolific pet ants. In the wild, the number of ants can reach hundreds of thousands, and their habits are quite similar to those of "army ants", and sometimes they will "march" in a mighty manner.

Originally a classic and popular pet ant species, it is still popular today. The difference in size between large soldier ants, queen ants and worker ants is hundreds of times, which is incredible. It is ferocious, very united, and has a very detailed division of labor, which is very fun.

Japanese Camponotus japonicus

Japanese bow-backed ants: Due to their easy acquisition, strong adaptability and low price, they have become very common ant pets. In terms of morphology, they can be divided into two types of worker ants, large and small. The large worker ants are what we often call soldier ants. Since they were first discovered and named in Japan, they are named Japanese bow-backed ants.

The most common and most widely kept pet ants in the world, most of the finished ant workshops are of this type of ant. It is highly adaptable and easy to keep, and is a standard entry-level species for beginners. But it looks a bit ordinary.

Hunting ant

The hunting sickle ant: It has a huge pincer and a well-developed stinger. It looks cool, is good at jumping, and is very ferocious. When it finds prey or an enemy, it shakes its butt left and right. It usually stalks its prey and lurks close to it. It suddenly jumps up and attacks, firmly clamps it with its sickle-like long teeth, and then uses its tail stinger to give it a fatal blow.

They have extremely unique appearance features, which almost all players like. Moreover, their behavior is very interesting. Many people in China raise them, so they are very popular.