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Post by Tormenter370 Pending on Oct 13, 2010 1:27:48 GMT 1
Ya so it started when one afternoon when i was little and ants were fighting over land 10+ of them and it fascinated me. Well over the years i tried keeping colonies of ants with no good results. Then a few days ago i found a colony of Orange ants who when in danger make this rather putrid smell. Well on to them... I found about 100 workers and 50 queens and lucky me a male "niger" ant. Well to my disappointment i got more queens then workers. Somehow i collected about 2/5 ratio of workers to queens... So i have 25 queens and 10 workers. . Well then you might think this person shouldn't be sad but now on to the worse bit. I put my ants in a plastic container with food dirt and air holes. Left it outside and woke up and saw about 8 queens had died and 8 workers. It wouldn't be like this if i could find a way to keep them warm while my new ant farm comes. Well i am sitting here clueless with 3-5 days of expected time to delivery, well hope for my sakes that they hold out and pray they survive especially the male.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2010 7:11:29 GMT 1
Are the queens mated? And why did you keep the male? You usually have one queen in an 'orange ant' colony, as I believe it they are either Lasius Flavus or a form of Myrmica(often mixed up and carry a sting and can have multiple queened colonies). Any more details would be helpful.
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Post by thomas on Oct 13, 2010 15:48:38 GMT 1
I didnt know flavus have Multiple Queens?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2010 16:10:38 GMT 1
@ thomas Usually they don't. If you were to keep flavus queens together in a test tube they would fight. However if they are able to nest as the same colony but not have to be together then they can be multi-queened
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Post by Myrm on Oct 13, 2010 16:17:15 GMT 1
Hi Tormentor
Your account has been approved. Welcome to the forum.
Sorry to hear about the misfortune with the ants. I bleieve it is due to putting all those queens into the same container, along with the workers.
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Post by animal123 on Oct 13, 2010 18:22:17 GMT 1
Flavus dont normally have more than 1 queen, but it is possible that there is more than 1 if the existing colony is rather big. I have seen people keep more than 1 Lasius flavus queen with a colony but their setup was rather big and the queens were usually out of contact.
Thanks,
animal123
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2010 20:45:17 GMT 1
Well they are huddled together in a cornor trying to fit in this hole
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2010 20:45:52 GMT 1
and i did get bitten and but it hurt for a little while sryy for duble post
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Post by thomas on Oct 13, 2010 20:46:30 GMT 1
Sounds very intersting to watch... ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2010 20:52:50 GMT 1
I have a bad feeling about this, still good luck
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Post by thomas on Oct 13, 2010 20:53:38 GMT 1
Hmmmm. Lasius. I agree Thompuss2010
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2010 20:58:28 GMT 1
L0L
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Post by thomas on Oct 13, 2010 21:00:18 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2010 22:30:16 GMT 1
I have photos but photo shack wont let me use them
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2010 22:59:52 GMT 1
Well should i go back and get more workers out of the original find place?
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