http://www.ants-kalytta.com/feeds/articles-offers.en.xml2010-09-10T01:58:12+02:00Ants Kalyttagerhard@ants-kalytta.comhttp://www.ants-kalytta.comBenjamin Kalytta`s AtomFeedClasshttp://www.ants-kalytta.com/images/icon.pnghttp://www.ants-kalytta.com/images/logo.pnghttp://www.ants-kalytta.com/Meranoplus-bicolor.en.html2010-04-18T11:50:11+02:002006-11-02T20:49:59+01:00<ul> <li><strong>Taxonomy:</strong> Subfymily <strong>Myrmicinae</strong>, Tribe <strong>Meranoplini</strong></li> <li><strong>Distribution:</strong> South-East Asia</li> <li><strong>Appearence of the queen:</strong> Approximately twice as large as the workers.</li> <li><strong>Appearance of the workers:</strong> Black head and abdomen, torax red-brown; size like Lasius niger, but haired</li> <li><strong>Nest building:</strong> Soil nests (caldera)</li> <li><strong>Nutrition:</strong> Honeywater, insects, grains</li> <li><strong>Hibernation:</strong> No</li> <li><strong>Temperature:</strong> Warm: 25 - 30 °C</li> <li><strong>Soil condition:</strong> sand, loam</li> <li><strong>Planting:</strong> small potted plants</li> <li><strong>Specifics:</strong> The ants move very slowly, because they trusting in their cemical defence. Meranoplus- strange looking ant 'cause of her furry hear.</li></ul>http://www.ants-kalytta.com/Camponotus-herculeanus.en.html2010-09-01T00:28:38+02:002006-11-02T20:49:59+01:00<p>Camponotus herculeanus is one of the biggest european ant species. Can be mostly found in highlands and they build theire nests in wood (coniferous wood)</p><ul> <li><strong>Taxonomy</strong>: Formicinae</li> <li><strong>Color</strong>: black with dark brown thorax</li> <li><strong>Distribution</strong>: Central Europe</li> <li><strong>Nutrition</strong>: Honey- or sugar water and insects</li> <li><strong>Hibernation</strong>: Yes</li> <li><strong>Nest building</strong>: Build their nest in wood with greater underground areas</li> <li><strong>Planting</strong>: Similary to the forest or mountains with branches, roots, moos</li> <li><strong>Class</strong>: easy</li> <li><strong>Specifics</strong>: Has Minor- and Major workers. Very fortified; could with one bite decapitate formica-ants. They attack humans only by nest disruption. Shows activity by day and night (diurnal and nocturnal). They build nests preferably in wood or under stones. A radiant heating should heat a stone or an angle of the formicarium in the daytime.</li></ul>http://www.ants-kalytta.com/Messor-barbarus.en.html2010-09-01T00:26:01+02:002006-11-02T20:49:59+01:00<p>Messor barbarus is a Myrmicinae with minor- till major-worker with all passings. Great colonies carry on long "highways" their seeds into the nest. They storing the seed in different granaries and prepare in "chew-communities" the so-called ant bread especially for the colder season. They lay out an trash-accumulation.</p><ul> <li><strong>Taxonomy</strong>: Myrmicinae</li> <li><strong>Color</strong>: black, sometimes red brown heads</li> <li><strong>Size</strong>: <strong>Queen</strong> 14 - 16 mm</li> <li><strong>Distribution:</strong> Central Europe</li> <li><strong>Nutrition:</strong> Mostly seeds from different rampant plants (also grass), but insects and honeywater too</li> <li><strong>Temperature:</strong> 25 - 30 °C</li> <li><strong>Hibernation:</strong> Yes (slight)</li> <li><strong>Air humidity:</strong> Dry climate</li> <li><strong>Nest building</strong>: Soil nests, loam, pebbles</li> <li><strong>Planting:</strong> nothing specific</li> <li><strong>Class</strong>: easy to keep</li></ul><p>Note: Young Queens from current season do not have any offspring (Queens with offspring and/or brood are from last year), they wil lay first eggs in spring.</p>http://www.ants-kalytta.com/Crematogaster-scutellaris.en.html2010-09-06T17:01:20+02:002008-06-17T00:24:03+02:00<p>This is a beautiful colored red-black colored ants species of Southern Europe. This species often forage on long street to their feeding lots. On excitement they raises the gaster upwards similar to a scorpion to defend their attackers with their defense secretion.</p><ul> <li><strong>Taxonomy</strong>: Subfamily <strong>Myrmicinae</strong></li> <li><strong>Distribution</strong>: Southern Europe</li> <li><strong>Color</strong>: shiny black with red head</li> <li><strong>Size</strong>: Queen 7 -9 mm</li> <li><strong>Nest building</strong>: Nests in death wood of trees.</li> <li><strong>Nutrition</strong>: Honeywater, insects</li> <li><strong>Soil condition</strong>: any, wood nests</li> <li><strong>Level</strong>: easy</li></ul>http://www.ants-kalytta.com/Cataglyphis-nodus.en.html2010-09-09T13:49:57+02:002010-03-23T23:51:43+01:00<p>This is the largest Cataglyphis throughout Europe which is distributed from Asia minor to Central Europe.</p><ul> <li><strong>Taxonomy</strong>: Formicinae</li> <li><strong>Distribution</strong>: Asia minor, Southern to Central Europe</li> <li><strong>Color</strong>: red with black abdomen</li> <li><strong>Characteristics</strong>: monogyne, polymorph</li> <li><strong>Nutrition</strong>: Honey- or sugar water and insects and other small animals</li> <li><strong>Hibernation</strong>: Yes (slight)</li> <li><strong>Temperature</strong>: 20 - 35 °C (summer, outside the nest)</li> <li><strong>Nest building</strong>: Build their nest deep in soil, creates calderas, also under stones</li> <li><strong>Planting</strong>: steppe like<strong><br /> </strong></li></ul>