11 New Queen Ants - 5 New Species | 1 Heart Pounding Queen!

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]11 queens caught, five new species, and one literal heart pounding queen.

[00:00:15]Let's start with the first one that I caught, it is a new polyrais. And of all places to find it, I literally found it drowning. It's not that I prioritize recording a video, but I really couldn't tell what it was. I didn't even know it was an ant struggling. Thankfully, there was a stick nearby and more thankful that it is still active despite struggling in the water. This is not a known species, but it belongs to a subgenus mopla. I love how it's a big polyakis. I've been catching tiny ones, so a big one is much needed. Somehow polyakis really looks sleek. I hope she'll do fine and lay eggs. probably a straggler since I caught it in the morning and they are night flyers. Up next, another straggler. It is the Okafila Merdina, otherwise known as weaver ants. Why straggler? Because they are early morning flyers and I caught it late at night. And to add on, it was a very hot day. I didn't think she would make it, but after getting into the test tube, she did not stop drinking for a very long time. I even gave her a tiny bit of honey, too. Spoiler alert, she's doing well. Now, to be frank, I'm not really fond of weaver ants because I feel as though they make up 99.99% of ants population in my country. They are everywhere. Bushes, trees, grass, even on the roads. But I cannot deny the fact that their queens are super cool looking. Unique is a better description actually. Even the color is very very unique. Next one is the Polyarchis Modesta. She isn't a new queen for me, but at least I caught a night flyer for once for a Polyakis. Well, this is actually the second Modesta I got at night, but the first one really didn't seem like it already had mated. I really want a colony of this Modesta. So, I hope this one makes it. And again, another one that is not a new queen, but ultimately still a very rare queen, the Ainopla Linata. Totally did not expect this because again, I literally just parked my car and right on the bush behind the car, she was there. I'm guessing she must have climbed down the lampost from the tree branch up there since there are three dwellers. And another not new queen, but ultimately a seriously unique one, too. I was told this is the camponotus megalus sub noodles as well like the first one my brother caught for me but this one has a beautiful design on her gastra really beautiful I was told as well that workers will not inherit that trait but who knows maybe this is a different one in the same group imagine the workers having this same design on their abdomen wow and ironically I caught this outside my other brother's house Another new queen, a very unique one indeed. Again, no species named, but an expert identified it as a cremator subgenus decor. Two were caught. One died when brought home. And this one was very, very weak. She really does look amazing.

[00:03:28]Somehow very different than the other crematoras. Thankfully, she is fine now.

[00:03:33]Although, I don't know if she's going to lay eggs or not. Hopefully she does because I am super curious with how her workers look like. That dent on her head, I wasn't sure if it was natural or accident, but I'm guessing it's natural since she's doing fine now. And also, I saw some others in the same subgenus decoras having similar dents in their heads. And the new queen that was mentioned as a heartpounding one, a Polyrais but gold, the Polyarchis Proxima. When I saw it on the leaf, my heart literally started pounding so hard. I got too overexited and just took a quick video of it, but mainly to confirm it really is a Proxima, or rather it really was an ant. and so thankful that I managed to catch her because if she drops, that's it. I won't be able to find it. Even after catching, my heart was still pounding.

[00:04:31]My chest was vibrating. I mean, come on.

[00:04:35]Look at this queen. Isn't this rather out of this world? Who would have thought an ant species like this exist?

[00:04:42]Ah, I can't wait for her colony. Please, please, please pass founding. I even dug through some research and found the workers images and some videos. They are also as golden as her. Yes. Okay. Okay.

[00:04:58]Okay. Time to tone it down a little. The next day at the random bush, I saw this again, a new genus. This is the technommax. Before I saw her, I saw some unique looking workers which I thought were crematas based on their abdomen.

[00:05:14]But apparently they are the technommax workers. Actually the first time I tried to catch her, she dropped and I was trying so hard to find her. But thankfully she resurfaced on another leaf. After catching her, I researched and learned that she was probably about to do the nuptial flight. So my hopes for her being fertile went down. But I did not see any other queens. Believe me, I really checked that same patch or rather the whole area around that patch and found no workers nor other queens.

[00:05:46]So maybe, just maybe, she just landed.

[00:05:49]She was caught at about 6:00 p.m. And 3 days after catching the Polyarchis Proxima, I got three more Proximas. In the ants group, two other ant keepers also caught Proximas. So maybe there was a huge nuptial flight for them during that period. But of course, I was not about to let the chance go and had to catch them. Gold ends. I know there's a silver polyrais too. I hope I can find it. Now I have four of them. I will really care for them to the best I can and hopefully they all pass through founding. If not, at least one. Just 44 days into ant keeping and I still can't believe I already have so many different species. Do subscribe to my channel and follow me on my ant keeping journey.

[00:06:37]That will be all for this video. Thank you so much for watching. See youa.