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r/antkeeping • … • u/Sparkletail

Messor Barbarus Black Head Queen - free to good home

We've somehow ended up with a spare Black Head Messer Barburus Queen (my partner ordered a red head, was sent a black head by accident which he would have kept but the vendor automatically sent out a replacement).

She is still in her test tube with about 6 ants and we haven't yet opened this.

We obviously don't want to kill her and can't release her into the wild as she is not a native species.

If you are in the UK and can offer her a good home we are happy to pay for postage to ship her if you want to DM me.

If you aren't familiar with the species I'd look it up as they are a little different to some other species as they are seed gatherers, make ant bread and need soil/sand to dig and make their nests in, from what I understand they aren't a beginner species.

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