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OK...don't answer that. hehe :rolleyes: :crazy: Warning...long rant. I just want to know if I am the only one who is horrified by some of the "toys" being made for small children (poisoned Chinese toys aside) and especially being pushed this Christmas. My coworkers think I am crazy...

Hi all! :-O Well, i have a terrarium full of antplants, i.e. dischidias, hydnophytums, and N. bicalcarata, all which thriving, and up until recently, had no ants. I just realized a newly introduced pot has ants in it! woo-hoo! So, i have a few questions. I made a mini shelter for the ants to...

My sarracenia is kinda weird, I just got him and he was stuffed with ants. It has been about two weeks, and the ant numbers have died down a bit, but there are stil tons in there. And now it is Oct. 3rd, and the ends are turning brown. What the heck do I do?!?!???? ??? ???

A blog me and a friend made about ants, hopefully their will be more. http://www.podshow.com/shows/?mode=detail&episode_id=78630

hi, i'm new here, and a new fan of the carnivorous plants in general... i browsed throu many of the posts here and digged up some great tips, but i have a HUGE problem now and i could use all the help i can get, asap.... :-( this saturday i bought a Butterwort (dont exactly know which kind)...

I was excited that my small ventricosa was producing a leaf with a "hooked" tendril because I have read on here that it could be a sign of a developing pitcher. Unfortunately, I looked at it this morning and saw that it was gone! Like it had been eaten off! I have never seen any bugs on the...

How did this happen? I noticed a smallish ant crawling on a pot earlier today of my N. ventricosa 'red' which decided to put out pitchers barely bigger than an inch (one is almost twice the size of the others though, still developing) now a dozen ants somehow got in a second story closed window...

Pretty new to this. Bought a $5.00 Walmart VFT about 6 months ago and brought it home and loved it and it has actually done well, considering that the 3 or 4 that my mom bought me as a kid all died. Looked outside today and found 2 huge winged-ants crawling all over my plant chopping it up. One...

I have a plant that I keep indoors in my downstairs setup, but decided to take it outside while I cleaned out the setup. Low and behold I found that it caught two giant carpenter ant queens! These things are so nasty, mean and the size of nickels. ... better in there than my walls, or...

Hi guys, If you guys remember... I bought 3 neps recently from BE: rajah, ramispina and bical. Well....after 4 weeks...here is how they are now. The new leaves have formed on both except the ramispina. But...there have been leaf losses as well. The rajah unfortunately lost a full leaf...as I...

Alright so the aphids are back and they’re not alone. The ants and aphids are taking full advantage of their symbiotic relationship on my VFTs. I have tried spraying them off, drowning them; I even moved the fortress away from the ant trial it was neighboring, but no luck! New traps are now...

Camponotus noveboracensis A "carpenter ant" I don't have sufficient lighting so they are poor pictures.

I was looking in my terrarium and i saw the strangest ant. It had long antenna with a yellow dot at the middle of them, and had yellow at the knees. Doe's anyone have any clue as to what kind of ant it is I'm almost positive it's not native to N.J. I'll try to get a pic soon.

Ok, so after contemplating for a couple of days on wether i should start an ant colony or get a mantid, i've decided to go for the ants. Now i just have to figure out where i can get a proper enviornment for them. I've done a bit of googlin, but it mostly shows the "kiddy farms". Most likely i'm...

http://www.lazyboneuk.com/store/pro501.html Now that you know what they are doing those "giant ants" Are Female Alates, or the New Queen's that havent started colonys yet. They have some other unusual stuff. Im considering buying some... but I dont know how I feel about them Taking ants from...

There was an ant show on the science channel and they had an AWESOME segment showing the relationship between N. bicalcarata and it's ants. It came on like 13 minutes into the show and has AWESOME video. It's a new ant show, not a re-run. I think it's on now auctually....

Some of you don't really care probably and are like What the heck ants? WELL I have found something quite amazing, and it makes me REALLY happy as a myrmophile! (ant enthusiast) My small first year colony of A. fulva has been destroyed by a parasitic queen. Called A. tenneseensis! This is not...

Myrmecodia tuberosa Hydnophytum formicarium any body know how easy it is to grow these? (as in personal experince) Ive looked on line and found some information but Im wondering if you guys know how to or grow them.

Hey guys, I just started a blog about a species of ant I have http://tetramorium.blogspot.com/ And was wondering who ealse blogs on these forums. I was thinking I should do one for my plants too but I dunno... Oh well! Cheers!

I was putting my daughter to bed recently (2 years old), and she asked me to tell her a story. Now it's one of her favorite. Check it out....you're gonna love it. One day Daddy and Nonno (Italian for "gandpa" if you didn't know) were in the garden. An ant crawled up on Daddy foot, and it...