Rarity: ★★★☆☆
Activity: ★★★★★
Growth Speed: ★★★★★
Award: Largest beginner ant
Care Level: Medium
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 ~10, they should be moved into a small nest.
Diet:
Diet: Queens do not require feeding until workers arrive. When workers arrive, feed sugars and protein regularly.
Queen size: 16-18mm
Worker size: 7-8mm
Incredibly fast growing. Huge. Easy to care for. Pretty much perfect. More in description below.
Care Level: Medium
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 ~10, they should be moved into a small nest.
Diet:
Diet: Queens do not require feeding until workers arrive. When workers arrive, feed sugars and protein regularly.
Queen size: 16-18mm
Worker size: 7-8mm
Meat ants are a formidable force in the outback. Typically found in bushland or similar vegetated areas, these large ants can grow huge colonies with hundreds of thousands of workers. Needing to survive in harsh conditions, they have evolved to be capable of eating almost anything, often seen devouring large animal carcasses very, very quickly. Their workers’ metallic purple shimmer make them great to observe in captivity, and they’re a very active species. They grow incredibly quickly, by far the fastest for their huge size.
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Queen with Brood, Queen with 1-5 Workers, Queen with 6-10 Workers, Queen with 11+ Workers |
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17 reviews for Iridomyrmex Purpureus Queen – Meat Ants
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Queen arrived with large larvae and pupa. She was quite stressed and ate 2 pupa so ensure you don’t check on her for the first few days like I did!
Queen and workers arrived in perfect condition- Antastic know their business- and will only dispatch ants early in the week to ensure ants are delivered promptly 👍🏻
Ants arrived healthy and active. Especially love the sliding feeding tray cap for the test tube. Makes feeding infinitely easier!
All good..thank you.
Better than the wrong ants I got from another place…Will only use you again..next time.
The queen arrived in perfect condition and had a lot of workers. I’m very pleased with this purchase, Thanks!