So, I've been thinking about getting into ant keeping. Anyone have any idea when Nuptial Flights happen in Israel? I imagine no, but better to ask!

Ants are intensely interesting to me and have only grown more-so as I've studied ant keeping and ants in general. A lot of what I thought I knew has turned out to be exceedingly basic and narrow in focus.

I'll keep you guys up to date once I get things rolling.

#AntKeeping #ants

@Surasanji I was just talking to @mngrif about wanting to get into ant keeping myself!

@freemo @mngrif I've been watching hours and hours of Ant keeping videos on YouTube, and joined an Ant Keeping discord server.

It's a very supportive and kind community of enthusiasts.

@Surasanji @freemo @mngrif I keep bees... I am not sure what one gets from keeping ants though. Or is it just voyeuristic?

@Absinthe @freemo @mngrif Partially. In most cases with Ant Keeping you're not really getting a product from the ants. It is possible to get products from ants, of course, but that is not typically the case with hobby level Ant Keepers.

For me, I just find them intensely interesting, amazingly complex and interesting insects that have- like humans- created a social society that acts much like a direct democracy with the colony as a whole acting as a single organism.