Where can I get a queen ant?
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1.1 Where can I get queen ants? \n\nThere are a few possibilities:\n\na. You can dig her nest up and find her. This is a tedious and\n   difficult method and may not always be successful. The queen\n   is very difficult to get. --Ant\n\n   I have done this numerous times. For Formicas (larger small\n   mound building species) I use:\n\n   1. Spade shovel\n   2. 2 five gallon buckets\n   3. 2 covers for buckets\n   4. Metal spoon.\n   5. Newspaper (a section will do)\n   6. Jars/bucket with 1-2" inside near rim treated with oil\n\n   The process I use is to locate less developed nests (smaller).\n   Then I carry shovel, buckets, and covers to site of nest\n   during mid to late day (when sun has warmed upper soil).\n\n   Next, I cut a circle around colony usually about size of\n   bucket or smaller if possible. Think of this like cutting a 6"\n   deep hole of sod; but don't pull up the section until you have\n   made your circular cut. When your ready lift the whole\n   section out of ground -- intact if possible -- put in first\n   bucket. Then while the nest is disturbed, begin to quickly dig\n   the rest of the soil following chambers and tunnels until few \n   ants are found or bucket(s) are full. As buckets get full, \n   place covers on them.\n\n   Now, take the bucket(s) home and begin to manually sort (using\n   spoon, newspapers for the refuse soil and jars/bucket to put\n   the workers, pupae, larvae, eggs in while looking for the\n   queen(s). Once the queen is obtained, then one can decide\n   whether to keep sorting to obtain more workers or eggs, larvae\n   pupae, etc. I have found eggs are very difficult to spot in\n   many species unless they are still in wads of multiple eggs.\n\n   Under large rocks mid-day or there about: Similar process as\n   above, but usually one doesn't need to get as much soil and    \n   one may see immediately the queen. I've turned large blocks\n   many times and seen huge colonies -- with a queen scrambling\n   for cover. --Mr. Ant\n\nb. Rotting boards are good candidates. In West Virginia this\n   summer (1999), I found three species all with queens under a\n   rotting dog house we had to move.\n\n   Carpenter ant queens, at least in Michigan, can relatively\n   easily be found in late fall or early spring (in cool\n   temperatures) by locating a large tree stand with a fair\n   amount of downed and rotting logs. By carefully peeling off\n   the bark one should easily be able to find a carpenter queen\n   with her first brood (in some stage) in a egg shaped chamber\n   between bark and wood of tree. Being prepared with collection\n   jars (large mouthed mason work great) and sharp long knife.\n   One places a small section of bark over the 1.5" oval chamber\n   and cuts into the tree to extract completely the 1.5" oval\n   chamber and surrounding wood. --Mr. Ant\n\nc. Wait for the nuptial flights during the spring and summer\n   seasons. The new queen ants usually fly away after a rain\n   storm during a warm temperature. It depends where you are, and\n   the development of the colony. Most species of ants will mate\n   in late spring and summer (June through August). --Ant and \n   Angelo Scott\n\n   Nuptial flights are the best time to get queens. Many times I\n   seem to miss them for various reasons. The best reason to get\n   nuptial queens is they are MUCH less sensitive to light than\n   full blown native colonies (which I have observed take some\n   time to acclimatize to light). Also, you get to see the full\n   development cycle. It is important make sure to feed your\n   queen before she enters the chamber as this will give her a\n   much larger first brood than otherwise would have occurred.\n   She will greedily gorge herself and then you can finally put\n   her in your terrarium. --Mr. Ant\n\nd. Finding colonies with queens is best done during the first\n   really warm weather of spring. At this time, queens come near\n   the surface to
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Imaginarium's Butterfly Garden available from amazon.com has a mailing form for getting the monarch butterfly larva included in the kit.
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Probably either on Ebay or Amazon!
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There are red carpenter ants and black carpenter ants that are the same species but highly rascist ants. Unless you mean the Red Imported Fire Ants of the southern US. Those indeed will sting you since they are not red carpenter ants.
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Actually, in the social hymenoptera (bees, wasps, and ants) the workers in any colony will all be the DAUGHTERS of the queen.  They are all female.\n\nIn most species, the workers are sterile, and cannot produce their own offspring.  In some of the more 'primitive' species, like Pharaoh ants, the workers can become fertile and can move off to form their own colonies if there is stress on the mother hive - each one becoming a queen.  In many of the more 'advanced' social hymenoptera, the ovipositor (the structure used for laying eggs) becomes modified in the workers into a stinger, since it is no longer needed for egg laying.  The stinger of the honeybee, which is barbed and rips out after stinging is the most derived form of this, but stingers can be found in many wasps, and even ants.\n\nThe males of the hives, known as drones in most social insects have no stinger, because they never had an ovipositor.  The number of males in a hive varies depending on the species.  In some species the drones are indolent wastrels, hanging out in the hive doing nothing just waiting for the call to come perform some sweet sweet lovin' for the queen.  In most species, the males also forage, going out and drinking nectar and the like, but because their numbers are much lower than the worker females of the hive and they don't have the specialized structures such as pollen baskets, their contribution is not as significant.\n\nIn most hives, the number of males is around 10 to 15% of the total population.\n\nMale honeybees can be identified by their long, cylindrical bodies in comparison with the workers, and their two very large compound eyes that nearly meet up on the top of their head.\n\nBecause they are pretty much a drain on the resources, and not required for short-term survival, the males are often kicked out of the hive when food becomes scarce, or when winter begins to draw near.\n\nWithout looking at the genitalia of the ant in question, it may be difficult to determine if it is a drone or not.  If it has wings it is either a queen or a male.  In many ants, the male has a smaller head and larger eyes, but I'm not sure if that applies in all ants or not.
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None, ants dont live in apartments. They live in colonies.
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This is the biggest secret..\n\nuse turmeric powder..\n\njust dust some turmeric powder in the areas where ants are plenty... i can bet u will see results..
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crickets,you can get them at pet stores.Also you'll need an aquarium with water and land inside.
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Arts and crafts stores usually have them.  I've seen them on the web also, but I don't remember the address.
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try walmart - they are sure to have something.\nor camping world ( i think they're online)
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Velvet Ants, check them out.  Also there are monarch butterfly look alikes.  Monarchs taste bad due to the milkweed they feed upon. There are lots of examples... the hour glass on a black widow for exmple, but spiders are arachnids.
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are you a member of the Warehouse? try there. if not, go to the dancing nancies website or antsmarching.org\n\nlots of trading and opportunities there... premier parking and ticket upgrades and such.\n\ngood luck!
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any room for a queen??
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I currently live in a log home and get carpenter ants all the time. I wipe the walls with bleach water as soon as I see one and they don't come back for a year. I try to wipe the walls with bleach water at least 2times during the summer(once to get rid of them and the second time to keep them away).\n\n\nJust thought I would let you know that rmaylaura is interested in ya. I seen a question she asked and she wants you to take notice in her. To bad I was hopin' I caught your eye. I guess too little too late;( Also I have a question for ya. Just click on my profile and it will be under the questions I asked.
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Japanese Ant\n\nhttp://ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/E/Taxo/F81104.html
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There are definitely some ants here in the UK, although obviously not in the numbers found elsewhere. I think it's a climate thing. I remember seeing many ants on a recent trip to the canary islands, which although pretty western, has a far warmer meant temperature than britain.
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go to blockbuster or some place like that and see if they can order any for you... and try flea markets. people sell all kinds of stuff at flea markets, you'd be surprised at what you can find.... MY daughter still has a Jem doll with the light up earrings... they still work....