Pheidole Queen – Big-Headed Ant
These gorgeous Pheidole ants feature incredible majors with huge heads, giving them their iconic name of the big-headed ants. They’re a great beginner ant since they’re small, require minimal care, and the queens are very easy to raise. Their numbers grow very quickly, and they usually have majors within the first few months of having workers.
Species at a glance
- Care Level: Easy
- Founding Type: Claustral
- Queen size: 6-8mm
- Worker size: 1-3mm
- Rarity: ★★☆☆☆
- Activity: ★★★★★
- Growth Speed: ★★★★★
- Award: Most popular ant
Setup
At the founding stage, a test tube setup or founding chamber with a water source is sufficient. Once the number of workers exceeds ~30, they should be moved into a small nest.
Diet
Queens do not require feeding until workers arrive. When workers arrive, feed sugars and protein regularly. Queen size: 6-8mm
Got more ants than I even ordered with lots of brood. Packaging was great, arrived next day with lots of info on how to care for the ant
Arrived in amazing condition!
Came in perfect condition, she was kicking completely fine, no issues with the Pheidole Queen or from me. Will definitely be purchasing more in the future.
Good service and items that come with the ant
Perfect starting colony
My Pheidole queen that I ordered came alive and it also hadwith many brood
My queen came heathly with 8 workers already, very fast shipping too.
Parcel received in good time with a live queen ant. Some workers have hatched but have died.
It is so exciting. All the ants arrived in his condition.
came alive doing well
Came perfect
Great ant can’t wait to see her colony grow! Arived fast, safe and happy
Beautiful healthy queen and arrived with heaps of brood and workers. Packaging was great and everything arrived safely. Very active colony already and the queen looks amazing in person. Really happy with the purchase.
Ordered queen with brood, but came with some worker ants already, what a bonus!
Arrived fertile, alive and ready with brood
They are little escape artists! Good luck!
Arrived in perfect condition and ahead of time for Christmas
These little ants are very energetic and fast-growing. Great for beginners.
G’day, happy review – the phildole queen ant arrived alive and kicking! 🐜✨ She’s got heaps of brood with her, and a whole bunch of small first-seasoned workers buzzing around already. Absolutely stoked to see the colony thriving from the get-go! Can’t wait to watch them grow and settle in. Super excited!
Cheers! 🙌🌿
Fantastic customer service and communication! My order arrived quickly and exactly as expected. Highly recommend Antastic for their speedy delivery and professionalism
Very happy with my order. Arrived alive and earlier than expected
Always fantastic have bought a few from them in the last couple of years never fail to deliver
Fantastic!
My order was sent immediately and arrived very fast. Ants looked very healthy on arrival, in a clean glass tube. One queen didn't quite make it but was replaced straight away. Great customer service and very helpful. Very satisfied with order and will definitely be coming back for more purchases.
Even tho they died in shipping I’ve contacted Jim and his a amazing help I’ve ordered a lot of ants from him his absolutely incredible.
Amazing already has 19 workers and heaps of brood
Very large amount of Ant inbthe test tube much more than 21.
She’s gorgeous she’s doing perfect and we have 15 workers atm
Arrived alive and well with eight workers and came quickly.
Very knowledgeable and helpful. Great place to buy ants :)
John lan
Ty Jim the Queen is beautiful well secured and prompt delivery.
Great beginner ant for my son. Jim helped us work through some questions we had and the colony is thriving now.
Queen with workers arrived very quickly. Very healthy with plenty of brood.