Contribution Guidelines

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What TrapJaw Answers is for

TrapJaw Answers is a community-curated question and answer library about

keeping ants: housing, feeding, colony health, behavior, species identification,

and ordering or shipping questions. Anyone can ask a question, with no account

needed. Answering public questions requires a free TrapJaw Labs account.

How review works

TrapJaw Labs team aims to review new questions and answers daily.

the team. Questions that are duplicates, off-topic, or outside these

guidelines are set aside with a short note explaining why.

shorten submitted answers for accuracy and clarity. Contributors whose

answers shaped the published one are credited on the entry.

Writing a good contribution

faster through the contact page.

species-specific or your best guess.

you choose.

ants. USDA rules are part of the hobby; we follow them and so do entries here.

Credit and your display name

Published contributions are credited using your display preference: your first

name (the default), a screen name you pick, or your full name. You can change

the preference any time in your profile and it applies everywhere immediately.

The license you grant

By submitting a question or answer you agree that TrapJaw Labs may publish,

edit, adapt, and retain it, in TrapJaw Answers and in other TrapJaw Labs

materials, under a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license, with credit per

your display preference.

Because answers are edited and merged into a single curated entry that other

keepers rely on, we keep the contribution even if you later close your

account. What we will always remove on request is you: ask us and we will

take your name off the entry and unlink it from your account, leaving the

contribution anonymous. You can also change how your name appears at any time

from your profile, and it applies everywhere immediately. To have your name

removed, or to ask what we hold about you, contact us. This sits alongside the

rights described in our Privacy Policy, which are not limited by this license.

The moderation team may unpublish content at its discretion.