What’s the queen ant in the title image ? I had one of those queens before but never got a colony of it nor the species name, if you know can you please tell me?
@@bugmansdms4654 likely from bioquip I personally use dressmaker pins, cheap and you get a lot in a container. About 2" long and very thin (I've pinned lasius queens with them)
I have some ants collected and in containers but I haven't gotten around to trying to pin them yet. That is my goal eventually and after seeing your video I think I am finally going to buy some pins and go for it!
dont they mold? also when there is no water the humidity in the air should make it mold in a few months. or did you put them in alcohol or something like that?
Second time watching this video that time with the goal of pinning some ants as i just found a dead worker from my polyrhachis rastellata colony which was in perfect shape i just nee to adjust one leg and the gaster
Vart köper du dina nålar? jag har ganska länge velat nåla mina insekter jag hittar men inte vetat riktigt hur man gör, så den här videon var väldigt hjälpsam ;)
Ants Scandinavia that’s where your mistaken I am fully Scottish also if you ever come to Scotland don’t call us British you might wake up in a hospital or you know 😵😵😵
Honestly, most of my inspiration came from Amazing ants , Safeway ants (which has deleted his channel ): and Ants australia. I also keep a ton of bugs, and some mantids. Plus a lizard and exotic isopod farms :P
If you euthanize the insects using ethyl acetate, they won't be as stiff and brittle as when alcohol is used, and won't have to be softened after (Alcohol is of course practical when travelling, but keep in mind: the purer the alcohol, the stiffer the insect). Most ants will doze off and die after only a few seconds of exposure to ethyl acetate (a drop is enough, it's the fumes that do it). You can then mount them nicely without having to struggle nearly as much with the needles. (Never use ethyl acetate on big insects like large beetles or bumblebees, as they can sometimes survive the treatment and wake up after a few hours!) Since their thoraxes are so brittle, ants aren't typically pinned, but are rather 'pointed' on small cardstock triangles, or are simply mounted to cardstock with entomology glue. For alates, I recommend the latter, as this can be done to beautiful effect! There's a very good glue you can buy from bioform.de. For a proper collection, it is wise to have several workers (as one worker is often not enough for reliable species identification). I can't be bothered to mount each one, so I either point them or simply keep the extras in a glass with alcohol (alcohol will stiffen them up, so mount them right away if you're planning on mounting them at all).
The Formica rufa group for example is very difficult group to tell apart, there are about seven species in that complex which are near indistinguishable from one another. The way F. aquilonia and F. polyctena can be told apart in Nationalnyckeln's identification key is that workers of F. polyctena have "max seven hairs in the back of the head". Needless to say, strong magnification is needed, and to make matters worse: Depending on the population, they hybridise like crazy (e.g. in southern Finland), so you get all these intermediary traits... I would say you should aim to ID at least 10 workers for a somewhat trustworthy result.
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where did you get the pins from?
Where did you get your insect pins from?
What’s the queen ant in the title image ? I had one of those queens before but never got a colony of it nor the species name, if you know can you please tell me?
@@AntsSwedenmost likely formica rufa
Possibly a more cryptic formica species such as rufibarbis
@@bugmansdms4654 likely from bioquip
I personally use dressmaker pins, cheap and you get a lot in a container. About 2" long and very thin (I've pinned lasius queens with them)
Tip: for small insects, cut a small triangle out of card paper, pin the wide end and glue the ant to the thin end of the triangle
You don’t know how long I’ve been looking for this
Awesome, glad I can help :D
Thank you for making this kind of video! Will be sure to check back if/when I get some pins for my other ants that I have collected.
Awesome, seems like a ton of people wanted to know how to do it! :D Glad to help!
Yes! I have been looking for a tutorial on this topic!
Awesome, glad I could help :D
Nice collection, bro. It's time to make my own collection.
Thanks! Glad that I inspired you!
Wow i just pinned them and always wondered how to spread the legs without braking them 😅
Yea, I did the same as you can see XD
Have you to spray them or cover them in a latex or
lacquer?
Nice vid! A pretty nice tutorial when making an insect museum.
Yea, This collection will grow :P
this was really helpful thank you
Nice one I just smack my dead ants onto a thumb tack with a blob of resin lmao
Haha, whatever works for you ! :P
Where did you get your display case from
Where did you get your insect pins?
Thank you very much!!!
I have some ants collected and in containers but I haven't gotten around to trying to pin them yet. That is my goal eventually and after seeing your video I think I am finally going to buy some pins and go for it!
Awesome! Glad I could inspire! :D What species is it?
Can i ask how did you legally shipped that beetle? Shipping living beetles legally is pretty hard
From what I understood, importing invertabrates as pets to sweden from an EU country is free, and don't have to be declared to anyone :)
OK, thank you :)
Cool video/ideas
Ye, seems like I helped a lot of people with this! Feels great :D
what is the first species in your intro? i have a colony of them and i don't know the species.
dont they mold? also when there is no water the humidity in the air should make it mold in a few months. or did you put them in alcohol or something like that?
You put them in rubbing alcohol
Where do you buy insect pins?
Amezon ebay
Really nice video it's a really nice tutorial
Thanks bro!!
cool video :D
Thanks :P
How can you leagely take him with (Beetl)
Second time watching this video that time with the goal of pinning some ants as i just found a dead worker from my polyrhachis rastellata colony which was in perfect shape i just nee to adjust one leg and the gaster
Thank you for this awesome tutorial, I’ll do that with some mantids and stick insects, my ants are better in alcohol where they don’t break
Yea, maybie ants belong in alcohol, you are right. But where do you buy the right containers for them?
Ants Scandinavia I just buy 500 eppendorf tubes
Oh, but how do you display them? Or do you just havr them in a box?
Ants Scandinavia just the most rare, the rest are classified
Wait, you mean you can't tell me, haha. That must be some suuuper rare species XD
I have olso set up my first ants the pheidole ants are pheidole pallidula
Cool! They are awesome!!
Yup i live in the Netherlands Then it is Just 12 houres driving
Ants Scandinavia from who do you buy your exotic ants? I buy then from BritishAnts.
From private sellers ;)
How do you get the privet sellers to be un-private sellers?
(How can I buy from them?)
Are you swedish?
Japp
👏
Um don't you glue to tag between last leg
You can do it that way :)
Vart köper du dina nålar? jag har ganska länge velat nåla mina insekter jag hittar men inte vetat riktigt hur man gör, så den här videon var väldigt hjälpsam ;)
Sök på märket jag använder, jag visade det i videon på slutet ;)
Skulle vara kul att se en vlog typ video, svårt att uppfatta skalan på din setup när allting är på myrnivå xD
Haha, ah kanske gör en room tour :P
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Do you live in Sweden or Norway?
Sverige! 😉
Sweden 🙃🙃🙃
Yes! I want to guess, that you are not scottish? ;)
Ants Scandinavia that’s where your mistaken I am fully Scottish also if you ever come to Scotland don’t call us British you might wake up in a hospital or you know 😵😵😵
hahahaha, okey, I will remember that m8 ;)
Nice channel bro
Spain has lost half of our insect population after your visit 😂
Hhahahaha, yea maybie XD
Vote were?
In the I-card to the top right. Some people dont see icards however, i had that problem before too :/
Why can you ceep Camponotus,colinobsis if you catch them.i can’t find them 😭.love your Chanel
The colobopsis I caught in spain, and most that I caught where unfertile, but ONE has eggs!!, Crossing my fingers!!
That’s nice going to Spain as well looking for messor,pheidole and every thing I can find
Jag vet att du är svensk AntsScandinavia men var i sverige bor du?
Sthlm ;) DD?
Sölvesborg (där jimmie åkesson kommer från) fast ute på landsbygden. Äger 60000 kvadratmeter mark
Najs! Jag bor också ute på landet, tror vi har runt 60000 kvm haha :P
Bodde du inte i Stockholm???
do you follow AntsCanada??? think you find lots of inspiration by looking at him. what other animals do you have??
Honestly, most of my inspiration came from Amazing ants , Safeway ants (which has deleted his channel ): and Ants australia. I also keep a ton of bugs, and some mantids. Plus a lizard and exotic isopod farms :P
@@AntsScandinavia ants Australia and ants Scandinavia are my favourite channels they have a very clean look and chill vibe
i found an dead weaver ant queen alate i might pin her later
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If you euthanize the insects using ethyl acetate, they won't be as stiff and brittle as when alcohol is used, and won't have to be softened after (Alcohol is of course practical when travelling, but keep in mind: the purer the alcohol, the stiffer the insect). Most ants will doze off and die after only a few seconds of exposure to ethyl acetate (a drop is enough, it's the fumes that do it). You can then mount them nicely without having to struggle nearly as much with the needles. (Never use ethyl acetate on big insects like large beetles or bumblebees, as they can sometimes survive the treatment and wake up after a few hours!)
Since their thoraxes are so brittle, ants aren't typically pinned, but are rather 'pointed' on small cardstock triangles, or are simply mounted to cardstock with entomology glue. For alates, I recommend the latter, as this can be done to beautiful effect! There's a very good glue you can buy from bioform.de. For a proper collection, it is wise to have several workers (as one worker is often not enough for reliable species identification). I can't be bothered to mount each one, so I either point them or simply keep the extras in a glass with alcohol (alcohol will stiffen them up, so mount them right away if you're planning on mounting them at all).
The Formica rufa group for example is very difficult group to tell apart, there are about seven species in that complex which are near indistinguishable from one another. The way F. aquilonia and F. polyctena can be told apart in Nationalnyckeln's identification key is that workers of F. polyctena have "max seven hairs in the back of the head". Needless to say, strong magnification is needed, and to make matters worse: Depending on the population, they hybridise like crazy (e.g. in southern Finland), so you get all these intermediary traits... I would say you should aim to ID at least 10 workers for a somewhat trustworthy result.
But i don't want to keep dead ants i want to keep only alive ants
i sent you a discord friend request :P
Hi
Hej
Ants Scandinavia i feel bad for you. they are banning memes.
They are :(
Imagine if you were a human and you saw humans in display impaled on pins. Good collect ion btw
Make a "nestbuilding video"
Ye, my old ones are super bad XD I will ;)
The old ones are ok but can you make one in plaster?
No don’t kill them
He didn't..