THE YELLOW MEADOW ANT | Lasius Flavus Update #7 - Ant Holleufer Mini Documentary

[@retroesports_]

Daym, I love this species and get humongous flights in my garden yearly! Beautiful content!

[@AntHolleufer]

Thanks man and yeah they are truly stunning!

[@rubyblack7240]

Love the video, i just received a lasius flavus colony in the mail today with two queens and around 10-20 workers. im really hoping they both make it

[@AntHolleufer]

Thank you! And good luck! 🙌🏻😄

[@carolinecarty1829]

The mouth to mouth feeding with ants is called trophylaxis.

[@xenogaming1283]

Cool vid I got a. Lassis umbratus Last year she is doing vary well

[@AntHolleufer]

Congrats man. Good luck! Mine died 😅 (I made a video in it a few years just search ant Holleufer lasius umbratus ) they died after all the new eggs turned into larvae 😅

[@denkitney8865]

Great vidio story line. I have these, and had problems along the way.. but that's life. Love the voice over, makes for realy good viewing! Keep up the great work, and hope this year is a good one for the ants.

[@AntHolleufer]

Thank you for the kind words! ❤️🙌🏻 and i agree. Let’s hope it’s a great year for ants! 🙌🏻

[@klippschliefer4968]

my lasius flavus also fist grow really fast, in only one year they reached at least 150 workers, but for some reason, at the end of the year, all but 6 workers died. they took 2 more years to finally start to recover to more than 10 workers, and i now have around 30. Btw i only used one queen.

[@averythegamer4949]

In Canada we have the Lasius brevicornis for our yellow meadow ant. I have 2 queens that I caught last August and they both finally have some workers now. They're quite cryptic in their test tubes, usually only leaving the queens side to get sugar water and chopped mealworms well after they've been put back in the dark. I only just got to see them eat today when I decided to keep them out for a bit after dropping off their food. Probably one of my favourite species so far just because I love how they look. Yellow bugs are just so awesome!

[@AntHolleufer]

Haha yeah ants are so fascinating man. I rarely see these girls eat. They just eat at night I hope. Sadly colonies has to be quite big sometimes for them to actually go crazy 😅

[@darklight8774]

brevicornis is great!

[@SuperSalioBoy]

[@Gaming_With_Jordy]

It was amazing to see the ants turning blue💙 awesome video 👍🏻 I have a Lasius Niger colony . and a Lasius Umbratus. And I just started with a new ant colony Camponotus irritans they are amazing ant big ants.

[@anonymous15196]

The workers look so cute ngl .

[@gordonc2792]

Very interesting video Do you have a plan to save the queens - could you split the colony into thirds? Just an interesting concept to put forward

[@AntHolleufer]

No I’d rather see what happens I try to show the bitter nature. As long as the queen isn’t in the outworld she can stay home 😄

[@silasfoulon]

I have a colony of 4 Queen lasius flavus colony with around 30 workers and lots of cocoons that will hatch soon. I actually didn't have any problems with the colony. They really like there sugarwater

[@AntHolleufer]

How old are they? Mine didn’t have any problems before one hole year had past 🤔 but I also give mine sugar all the time as they go crazy for it 🙌🏻😄

[@silasfoulon]

@@AntHolleufer mine are from August 2021 so around 9 months

[@silasfoulon]

I also give pieces of earthworm to my colony, they go crazy on it.

[@Cyan_stickfigure]

Bro there gaster color is beautiful especially the larvea

[@thehairypavementant3931]

Good looking ants

[@alzzz1-129]

How is the colony doing now, if it is still around

[@Finley-xb1ht]

Lasius Flavus are either Polgyneous or Monogyneous depending on where they are found, in Central Europe they seem to be quite monogyneous, whilst here in The UK they are extremely polygynous and all the colonies I own are polygynous, and I often fail when raising a single Lasius Flavus Queen.

[@1999gixxer600]

Sorry for your losses (Queen 5 & 4) R.I.P

[@anter6546]

Great Video!

[@AntHolleufer]

Thank you!😄

I've got them too, they're beautiful. Today I made a terrarium with sand, I need advice on what kind of ants to let in.

[@AntHolleufer]

Yeah they are! Is it just pure sand or what do you mean with sand?

@@AntHolleufer Terrarium with acrylic partition in which there is sand

[@BasicAnts]

I have read a lot of literature on Lasius Flavus and I am convinced they are monogamous, the reason so many antkeepers say they are polygamous is because a well fed colony will take ages (i.e years) to starve, bully, cast out the extra queens. Unlike say Lasius niger who resort to physically killing the extra queens, flavus tend to do it through neglect. I predict your situation will slowly keep happening until there will only be one queen. (there is one exception to this and they will be polygamous if any of the original queens happen to be sisters, so if you caught them in the wild in the same location there is some chance of this.)

[@AntHolleufer]

Very interesting! I did get all queens from the same area perhaps the same nest not too sure. But It will be really interesting to see how they do over this year. I’d suspect that you are correct in only one queen next year

[@thepearypope2539]

I’ll test this in the summer there’s at least one big nest in my garden

[@diogocosta3549]

That has to do with the modern, careless and casual approach of myrmecology. I entered this hobby around 13 years ago, and back then everyone knew that species could be monogyne, polygyne or OLIGOGYNE. Yes, there's a third one. Oligogyne species can start the colonies with multiple queens, but will almost always cull them until they're left with only one queen. If the conditions are perfect, they may retain more than one queen, but most likely, they won't. Lasius flavus and their American counter parts were well known olygogynes. Nowadays, most people group ants in monogynic or polygynic. Wrong.

[@raumschiffente2908]

@@diogocosta3549 nah them founding with many queens is pleometrosis, Lasius flavus is monogynous, in very rare cases polygynous, but more commonly oligogyn, and pleometrosis

[@diogocosta3549]

@@raumschiffente2908 See, this is what I meant. Pleometrosis is the act of founding colonies with multiple queens. They can be related, unrelated, can be killed off or can be kept alive, applies to any social insect, not just ants. Polygeny IS a type of pleometrosis where the queens are kept alive. Oligogyny is a type of pleometriosis where the colony starts off with more than one queen, but will reduce its number until there's only one left

[@belogic5347]

Good video!

[@AntHolleufer]

Thanks man!

[@Tommy-ns4nz]

Would be awesome to have an update, how many queen's are left? How bigs the colony etc?

[@thombienaturlich6830]

In der freien Natur ist Lasius Flavus eigentlich monogyn. Allerdings kommt eine gemeinsame Koloniegründung von mehreren Weibchen häufig vor. Nach dem schlüpfen der ersten Arbeiterinnen trennt sich die Kolonie in mehrere nach Anzahl der Weibchen friedlich und die verschiedenen Kolonien haben auch später zuweist noch Kontakt. Deshalb sollte in einer Laborkolonie unbedingt genug Platz/Raum vorhanden sein,damit diese natürliche Aufteilung stattfinden kann.

[@administrato]

I have a colony of 2 lasius flavus queens in a tube with some brood one of them seems to be dying soon is it ok if I can add like more lasius flavus queens in with the remaining queen so they can live together or too late?

[@galaxyplayboi9120]

quick reminder if you have a small kind of ant colony and is only 30 ants below never give them too much space and feed them droplets not by deep cups or thy will drown i learned that lesson it happened to me twice now next time give them extra space when thy are 40 to 50 ants above only big ants need big space btw thx byee love ur vids 😊💖

[@AntHolleufer]

Yeah I learned it the hard way 😅 30 from ≈ 35 died in in honey 😪 And thank you! ❤️😄

[@faces_of_horror]

Are these ants super sensitive to light? Or can you watch them without them panicking? Thanks

[@slayerice09]

What did you use for the blue colouring? I'd be keen to try different colours when my flavus arrive, but I'm not sure what would be safe to feed...

[@AntHolleufer]

I use sugar snaps from ant antics 😄

[@coverhoeven2904]

Sad to see queens die

[@AntHolleufer]

Yeah 😪😕

[@erengineer9793]

i love this documentary. i have this spieces. i havwe caught this spieces today . i will wait for the queens's lays eggs... i am so curious to grow this new spieces for the first time

[@AntHolleufer]

Thank you! Good luck with your colony! 🙌🏻😄

[@thepearypope2539]

@burning shadows rly?

[@thepearypope2539]

I need to try this

[@thepearypope2539]

In the summer

[@thepearypope2539]

I could just prob capture like 100 workers and a few queens lol let me check KZbin to see if this is actually a thing!

[@jorrevandongen9381]

In my experience the ants kill off the weaker queens in a multy queen nest till there's one left, they just don't allow more queens in the colony. But yeah i could be completely wrong here just saw the same thing in a documentairy ones.

[@AntHolleufer]

Yeah I think that is mostly the truth with this colony. Especially how they started with 5 and today only two. Doesn’t seem wrong!

[@ДаниелИлиев-х3ч]

When will see a new update? Are all queens alive? I just need to know. 😁😁

[@AntHolleufer]

Down to 2 queens sadly but they are currently hibernating ☺️

[@Litten260]

i want to start a colony but cant find any queens anywhere, any tips on how to find some?

[@AntHolleufer]

I’ve made a full ant keeping 101 playlist. But generally unless you are from Australia I’d recommend to buy one at this time of year ☺️

[@Litten260]

@@AntHolleufer alright thanks!

[@Litten260]

since im not in australia, i bought a queen ant from a local store and it died within 10 minutes.

[@hsparrowssv]

How did you get them? Did you get them during their mating flight??

[@AntHolleufer]

Yeah I captured all 5 one day where they had a flight 😄

[@dziku2222]

Why are your Lasius flavus ants have those green butts? I just bought a queen and some workers and they are just yellow.

[@idunoh1902]

He gave them dyed sugar water

[@dziku2222]

@@idunoh1902 Hm... that's odd, but at least he knows they are no thirsty

[@rainlluvia5818]

I know this is late, but I recently caught 6 queens (I know for sure 5 are fertile) and I will soon get a colony with 10-20 of workers. I am not sure whether you can introduce new queens into a colony, but I will do my research..

[@AntHolleufer]

I don’t think it’s possible. Once workers arrive they get different smells and they will most likely think another queen as an enemy 😕

[@rainlluvia5818]

@@AntHolleufer Ah, okay. The colony has already come, and I will keep it in mind. Since I have 5 other queens (one sadly passed) I can have a multiple queen colony hopefully sometime soon.

[@darklight8774]

@@AntHolleufer it is! at least for american flavus, ie brevicornis

[@annmarie8414]

Very sad to keep queen with no legs that's hash...heartbreaking to see

[@ililiiiiii4349]

I'm only going to say one thing: This video is about ants.

[@ililiiiiii4349]

Or is it? Only time will tell.

[@AntHolleufer]

Hmm. I can’t remember. Will have to see the video to find out 🤔

[@ililiiiiii4349]

@@AntHolleufer It's not. 😫

[@ClaudiaLovenfosse-io8yc]

Lasius flavus gründet oft zusammen...bis die ersten worker schlüpfen Dann heißt es """""" es kann nur eine geben....

[@finnsphotos8922]

This is pretty much the video I am making 😄

[@AntHolleufer]

Oh 😳👀👀

[@kobe2269]

The queens of this cand of ants like more there one space maybe that's WY they die

[@AntHolleufer]

Hmm perhaps, I hope not 😅🤔

[@NoteCaptain-yi7ny]

My house have my house have 1,000 ants the queen black ants just like in the video

[@ultrapendone]

the 3rd queen is cring for 4st queen

[@jesseklinkenberg9072]

Lol

[@AntHolleufer]

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