T.C. 's Living Insect Collection

Below are pictures of the insets i am keeping....  I am waiting until Spring before I start doing more Insect Collecting.


My earwigs


My lasius alienus ant colony


Random Insect habitat, (snails,slugs,centipedes, etc.)



Myrmica Rubra Ant colony


camponotus pennsylvanicus queen with larvae


Kept this spider for a while in one my habitats until my ants caught it and drug it into there nest.


Banded Wooly bear


Young Leopard moth caterpillar

This isn't all of them, but it's all i got pictures of currently!

Cool. I especially like your ant colony.

Which one? haha By the way, I raised each ant colony from a single queen! I didn't dig those colonies up! Except the myrmica Rubra colony!

Cool! I meant the M. rubra. Where did you find/get the queens from? What do you feed them?

I caught the whole colony in a big floating pile, during a flood. There was actually several colonies of them floating along. So I got a big jar, scooped the whole pile up and drained the water out through a small hole in the lid, then I just like that I had a colony of ants in a jar! I poured them all into an outworl that lead to that plastic hydrated nest you see. And I feed them live Insects, spiders, flies, crickets, etc.

We have not seen a single Woolybear this year!! I am so jealous of yours, he is magnificent. They are my favorite caterpillar and I was hoping to catch one this year to see the moth it emerges as. Maybe next fall...

Yeah, I noticed their is less this year as well... I don't know what was up with this. It's like the monarch, there is very little of them these days, however I was lucky enough to get my hands on three of them this summer.