Rarity: ★★★☆☆
Activity: ★★★★☆
Growth Speed: ★★★☆☆
Award: Fastest ant
Care Level: Easy
Founding Type: Claustral
Setup: At the founding stage, a test tube setup or founding chamber with a water source is sufficient. Once the number of workers exceeds ~15, they should be moved into a small nest.
Diet: Does not require feeding until workers arrive. When workers arrive, feed sugars and protein regularly.
Queen size: 15mm
Worker size: 8mm
Stunning middle sized sugar ants, featuring a gorgeous golden gastor in the workers. They are quite calm and easy to raise, although they are large enough to harmlessly bite! This species have both minor and major workers and often forage during the day, so make a very interesting colony to raise!
Amazing. Our beautiful queen with her workers arrived happily in a few days.
Delivered with care and very quickly
My queen arrived healthy and active. Everything was very well wrapped for safe shipping. I absolutely LOVED the information card that came with her, tells me everything I need to know about the species and makes it very easy to find additional care information or do research if I want to. She also came with a name which is so sweet! Would absolutely recommend Antastic for beginner ant keepers 🙂
Antastic did great but Australia Post did poorly. When the ant was just 100km away they sent her on a detour that added 2 days and 600km to her trip. So far she is doing ok.
Healthy queen with plenty of brood!