The Ant-Tarium
Howdy, I am a board certified entomologist and certified applicator residing in Texas. This channel is dedicated to providing content about my ant keeping hobby. Topics such as ant biology, how to get started, caring for your ants, and progress updates of my many colonies will be commonplace here.
Highlights Reel - 86th Queens Champion Rapier Tournament
Texas Bullet Ants Update - Settled in their Outworld & Macro Lens 4k
Texas Bullet Ants and their new DIY outworld: The Fluon Defiers
Escape Artists - Honeypot ants
OSU TikTok Spotlight #1: “How to start keeping ants” with Andrew and The Ant-Tarium
Texas Bicolored Carpenter Ants and their New Home
First workers! - Neoponera villosa Polygyny Group Two: March 2022 Update
First workers! - Neoponera villosa Polygyny Group One: March 2022 Update
Moving Black Desert Harvester Ants to a new DIY nest
DIY - Founding Chamber Gypsum Formicarium with Outworld
The Dual-Monarchy - Neoponera villosa Polygyny Group One: December 2021 Update
Long Live the Queen - Neoponera villosa Polygyny Group Two: December 2021 Update
“The Tyrannical Kidnapper” - Polygyny Pairing of Neoponera villosa Queens: Experimental Group Two
“The Dueling Princesses” - Polygyny Pairing of Neoponera villosa Queens: Experimental Group One
DIY Top Down View Ant Nest (Gypsum Formicarium)
South Texas Collecting Trip: Neoponera villosa queens!
Wild Collected Big Headed Ants (Pheidole)
Moving my Red Harvester Ants into the New Nest
DIY Formicarium: New Nest for Red Harvester Ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)
Myrmecocystus mexicanus - When you think the queen is finally going to move in…
Camponotus texanus - Update 10/2/2021 - Brood explosion
Golden Honey Pot Ants - Myrmecocystus mexicanus - Doing well and loving the fruit flies
Golden Honey Pot Ants - Myrmecocystus mexicanus - Burying larvae in substrate for cocooning
Camponotus atriceps - first workers and honey feeding
New colony! Golden Honeypot Ants - Myrmecocystus mexicanus
Carpenter Ants (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) - Queen in 2 year old colony
Carpenter Ants (Camponotus discolor) - 3+ year old colony in THA Atrium
Camponotus texanus - colony expansion