Free Ant Keeping Ebooks
Research-backed guides, cited to real science. Read online or download the PDF. No email, no signup.
The Diapause Manual
Why almost everything the hobby teaches about ant hibernation has the causation backwards.
Cold does not cause ant diapause. An internal clock does. This manual walks through the real mechanism, autumn preparation, and a fourteen-entry autopsy index of the ways a winter goes wrong. 147 citations.
Ants and Water
Your essential guide to keeping ant colonies properly hydrated.
Learn how ants use water, the best watering methods, and how to avoid common mistakes that can put your colony at risk.
Carpenter Ants on Your House
Before you spray anything, read this. Those big ants on your siding feel like an emergency — usually, they aren’t.
The truth nobody selling you a treatment will tell you: most of what looks like an infestation is a few harmless foragers. Written by an ant keeper, not a salesman, this guide shows you how to tell a carpenter ant from a termite, spot a real nest, and know when to call a pro.
The nuptial flight
The complete field guide to the ant nuptial flight: why ants fly, how to predict the flight from the weather, how to catch a mated queen, and how to found a colony.
157 pages, real science, keeper-tested.
Nuptial Flight Calendars
A month-by-month calendar for your part of the world — which species fly, when, and the exact weather that sets them off. Read any edition free. No email, no signup.
U.S. Nuptial Flight Calendar
The full U.S. season, month by month — from the first winter-ant flights to the great September Lasius finale.
Every major U.S. keeper species mapped to its flight window, the weather trigger that sets it off, and a catch-and-found guide — with region notes from the Deep South to the northern tier.
UK Nuptial Flight Calendar
Built around Flying Ant Day — the whole British season on a plate.
From spring wood ants to the huge July Lasius niger swarm and the autumn red-ant flights, with the exact heat, humidity and wind that trigger a flight. Fully localised to Britain, in °C.
Canada Nuptial Flight Calendar
The colder-shifted Canadian calendar, coast to coast.
Boreal carpenter ants in spring, prairie harvesters in summer, and the Labour-Day Lasius neoniger finale — with a long-winter hibernation guide built for the Canadian climate.
Calendrier des Vols Nuptiaux (FR)
La version française du calendrier canadien.
Des charpentières boréales du printemps au grand final des Lasius neoniger de la fête du Travail — noms latins conservés, °C, entièrement en français canadien.
Australia Nuptial Flight Calendar
The flipped southern calendar — and a genuinely different fauna.
Spring meat-ant flights, autumn sugar-ant dusk swarms, bull ants and jack jumpers — with the storm triggers that drive them and a sting-safety guide. Inverted seasons throughout.