Camponotus nigriceps

Camponotus nigriceps which is also known as "sugar ant" is a easy to keep Camponotus species from Australia.

• Taxonomy: Subfamily Formicinae, Tribe Camponotini
• Distribution: Australia
• Color: black with red or yellow leggs and brown abdomen
• Size: Queen (with yellow leggs) about 19 - 22 mm, Queen (with red leggs) about 18 - 19 mm
• Nutrition: Honey- or sugar water and insects
• Hibernation: No (see climate)
• Climate: subtropics (moist)
• Humidity: Rain forest
• Nest building: This species nests in loamy ground
• Planting: nothing specific
• Level: easy

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Iridomyrmex cf. purpureus

A beautiful colored and mainly in Southeastern Australia distributed ants species with beautiful green-purpur shimmer.

• Taxonomy: Subfamilie Dolichoderinae
• Distribution: Australia
• Color: Queen: black, Workers: reddish-black
• Size: Queen: 12 - 15 mm
• Hibernation: No
• Nutrition:  Honey/sugarwater, insects, spiders and other small animals and occasionally seeds
• Temperature:  from cool through very hot 15 - 30°C
• Climate: subtropical to tropical
• Soil conditions: nothing special
• Nest building: Soil nests with small mounds
• Planting: not neccessary
• Specifics: Abdomen especially from workers is shimmering green to purpur. Creates small mounds.

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Myrmecia mandibularis

Noticeable colored Myrmecia species. Also jumps to capture their prey like other Jumper ants.

• Taxonomie: SubfamilyMyrmiciinae, Tribe Myrmeciini
• Distribution: West Australia
• Color: black with reddish-golden abdomen
• Nestbiulding: soil nests, often under stones, often near forest
• Nutrition: insects and honeywater
• Climate: sub tropical
• Hibernation: No
• Air Humidity: dry forest climate
• Soil Conditions: loamy, stoney
• Planting: not necessary

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Myrmecia pavida

These animals follow you by their eyes.

• Taxonomie: Subfamily Myrmiciinae, Tribe Myrmeciini
• Distribution: West Australia
• Color: red with black abdomen
• Size: 24 - 26 mm
• Nestbiulding: soil nest
• Nutrition: insects and honeywater
• Hibernation: No
• Climate: Subtropical
• Temperature: they like it hot, but tolerate also colder temperatures
• Air Humidity: dry climate (deserts)
• Soil Conditions: similar to the steppes
• Planting: grasses and small plants
• specifics: This specie is easy to keep.

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Myrmecia sp.

• Taxonomie: SubfamilyMyrmiciinae, Tribe Myrmeciini
• Distribution: West Australia, highlands (300 - 400 m)
• Color: Mandible: yellow-brown, Head: black-brown, Thorax: dark red, Abdomen: black
• Size: 25 - 27 mm
• Nestbiulding: soil nest with mounds that are decorated with branchlets or pieces of grass stems. Will be usually found in eucalyptus tree forests, like half-shaded areas.
• Nutrition: insects and honeywater
• Hibernation: No
• Temperature: Summer: day: 26 - 28 °C, night: 18 - 20 °C, Winter: day: 20 - 26 °C, night: 5 - 15 °C
• Air Humidity: dry forest climate
• Soil Conditions: stoney, sandy with foliage and branchlets
• Planting: grasses and small plants
• specifics: This specie is easy to keep, is more aggressive and is more shy than Myrmecia pavida for instance. These animals follow you by their eyes.

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Oecophylla smaragdina "green"

These specie lives in trees where they build their nests between leaves. This is the green variant from Australia. Larger colonies should be offered more than one tree. They waeve leaves at team work which will be used as homebase or louse-cultivation room. They never nests within soil, and they use their own brood (larvae) to weave.

• Taxonomy: Subfamily Formicinae, Tribe Oecophyllini
• Origin: Australia
• Characteristics: minors and majors
• Hibernation: No
• Appearence of the queen: great, vigorous, often green, brown
• Appearance of the workers: brown, slim with long extremities
• Nest bulding: weaved nests between leaves of trees
• Nutrition: honeywater, insects
• Temperature: 22 - 28°C
• Air humidity: 60 - 80 % (tropical rainforest)
• Soil conditions: only necessary for planting, nesting between leaves
• Planting: ficus
• Level: Medium
  

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Rhytidoponera metallica

• Taxonomy: Subfamily Ponerinae, Tribe Ectatommini
• Distribution: Central- to South America
• Size: about 8 mm
• Hibernation: No
• Nutrition: Honey-/Sugar water and insects
• Climate: subtropical
• Soil condition: loamy, stoney
• Nest building: Soil nests, under stones
• Planting: Any
• Keeping level: easy to keep

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