The Urban Leafcutter
Sold with 50-150 workers and a golf ball sized fungus
Buy now for shipping from the 18th October
UK SHIPPING ONLY (We do not ship atta overseas): Includes UK overnight Shipping - Following our test shipment to ourselves, we are confident that Atta will ship adequately on a 24 hour service.
We have a large colony of this species in our store and can sell donor fungus to customers struggling or having a missfortune with environment at any time. This service is only for our customers though. Buy right first time with us.
Mexicana are highly adapted to life in Central America. Typically found between Texas, Mexico and Panama they have become suited to life in the city and regularly frequent there.
Such adaption makes for a slightly easier species to keep as temperatures in urban areas can fluctuate slightly more. As such they can usually recover from slight and irregular drops.
Being highly fortified they are ants on a mission in their quest for food, the slightly darker exoskeleton makes for a slightly thicker armour to other species. Being in abundance however has its downfall for the species. Come rainy season queens are collected and used as a food source for the native populations. The delicacy means they are roasted with hot-sauce or cooked into gravy for food. We wish we could save them all though.
Mexicana will provide you or your exhibit with a fantastic colony that is well suited to a huge variety of plants from hedges to flowers and everything in between.
Queen
Age - Up to 15 years
Fully claustral - no leaves needed until first workers
Colony - 5mil to 8mil
Temperature & Humidity
Nest 24-25 Degrees | Outworld 21 to 28 Degrees
Nest 80% to 90%
Diapause None
Polymorphic (Yes)
Queen - 25mm to 27mm
Minor - 3mm to 5mm
Media - 6mm to 16mm
Major - 17mm to 20mm
Bite
Absolutely
Diet
See Feeding Guide
Nest Type
Natural, Acrylic, Glass
Required; Fungus Chamber, Waste Chamber, Feeding Chamber
Congratulations you’ve found the first hint.
Ant Holleufer is housing his atta mexicana in quite a few pods.
One of the pods is for sale in a store. Where could you order such pod?
Atta Mexicana - Leafcutter
Make sure you set up your habitat and have it stable before delivery of your colony. To ensure this we will not ship any queen purchased without prior notification that your housing has been arranged and stable for a minimum of 2 days.
The order process is as follows;
- Order your Queen to make sure she is yours!
- Set up your nest, get everything ready to go.
- Inform us that you are ready to collect your queen (or have her shipped) by the chat function on your account.
- We will then agree a timeslot (or shipping date) so you can collect your queen from us directly or have her on a next day service.
