Colony records

Keep track of your ant colonies.

Colonies change slowly — an egg here, six new workers there. Antkeeping keeps the record: dated notes, photos, brood stages and growth, per colony, for as long as the nest lives. Readings you log are checked against what each species wants, and the guide tells you what that is.

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The example is a real colony, shared with the same button you get on yours — no account needed to read it.

Fig. 1 — nest in cross-section, chambers excavated from the substrate

Care guides for 21 species

How warm, how damp, when to hibernate and how to get a founding queen through her first months — one page per species, from the black garden ant to leafcutters.

Keep track of your ant colonies.

Care guides for 21 species

Northern and Central Europe

Mediterranean and North Africa

Tropical Asia

Tropical America