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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2010 0:27:03 GMT 1
Hello I have kept a tube of these guys because I took them from the wild in the spring. Well I caught them in a silicone tube. Ihad some workers and some eggs, actually a huge ball of eggs! Well I found out I had no queen and decided to keep them anyway. well lately the ball seems to have grown? And im wondering to myself what if the queen is the same as the workers.. well is the queen the same?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2010 8:52:39 GMT 1
First of, please use capitals at the start of a sentence. Makes reading a whole lot easier I did some googling on acrobat ants as I know nothing about them as seems they are officially called Crematogaster. On a Dutch forum I found a journal about Crematogaster scutellaris including photo's and it was easy to spot the queen for her being 3-4 times as large. So either you have a different sub-species or it's just the workers producing eggs in order to create males, but I'm sure Myrm can tell you more about that subject. The image I used: Copyright McK
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Post by Myrm on Dec 30, 2010 9:02:34 GMT 1
Hi mpb.
It could be that the ball of eggs has hatched into first stage larvae and so only appears larger. It is possible for workers to lay eggs but these are often eaten and, if allowed to develop, would otherwise become male ants.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2010 9:14:19 GMT 1
Very well said, Myrm. He may also have a different species than Crematogaster and his species ID may be false.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2010 10:22:54 GMT 1
Hey, MPB. I sorted your capitals out for you but I would pefer if you did them yourself in Future (Sorry, I am a capital Freak!! ) I think that the Eggs may have grown into Larvae as Myrm said.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2010 10:36:51 GMT 1
Yes, that is the most probable occurrence.
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