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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2012 22:19:26 GMT 1
I had a queen from the mating flights in august, however 3 months on she still has no callows. I noticed the dwindling number of eggs slowly decreasing in numbers and I checked on her today and found that she was dead with no eggs left. she was in a small pot with a slightly damp cotton ball. I do not know the reason for her death, anyone had anything like this happen before? I placed her shriveled body into the alpha ants farm that is homing my new colony of lasius niger of 1 queen and 11 workers which I obtained last month. They are still living in the test tube in the foraging box but they soon found her and immediately went crazy for her and within half an hour atleast 8 workers were swarming her. So sad to see this happen; On a higher note though, I saw my first ever cocoon from this colony and got rather excited.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2012 11:51:05 GMT 1
It could be a number of reasons. About a month ago, one of my queens was in a tube with sugar and water, but they mixed and made a sticky solution that she got stuck in and died. Could be temperature, illness, sometimes it's hard to tell
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Post by Myrm on Nov 13, 2012 15:55:58 GMT 1
Hi I am vary sorry to hear of Queenie This has happened to me many times in the past for unknown reasons.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2012 23:23:59 GMT 1
Hello, If you see a dead queen ant during winter, It's probably hibernating. if you poke her gently, she'll probably be sluggish, move a bit and then go back to hibernation. I today thought mine was dead, but realised she's hibernating
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2012 2:25:15 GMT 1
WOW! I bet you got the fright of your life hackzor!
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