new Messor spec queen

[gabranth]

ive ordered a single queen (god help me) of one of these ants

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anyone know know what its called or had any experience looking after them?

[SteveUK28]

ive thought about gettin these for a long time.. but every time he has them i dont have the money.. typical.. Id imagine they are much the same as normal messors.. plenty of seeds.. small ones at first like grass.. and maybe a few small insects.. fruit flys.. and as he says.. try some sugar/honey water.. ohh and lots of heat

Make sure you take some pics when u get her.. and good luck

[gabranth]

thxs ive got a cereal bowl full of different seeds and im going ot try giving them maggots when they have workers as my other messor colony likes them

[JimmyVe]

Yes, mostly keep them the same as other Messor species, only these don't need hibernation. (as it seems) Good luck with them.

[Messorus]

Yes, good luck... Keeping a colony from a queen isn´t very easy... Messor, and also some other Myrmicinae aren´t very easy to keep from just a queen.. Good luck

[gabranth]

ive already kept a camponotus ligniperda queen successfully but too awhile to get workers and i had to move my messor queen to another testube as the other one only had a little bit of water left.

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umm you don't sell this ant ive checked and its not an advertisement i was showing people what i got as there are alot of messor spec's around.

[Simon S.]

@gabranth:
I also ordered one of this Messor spec. queen.
She didt't start producing eggs yet, but I hope she'll start it soon. So, keep waiting

[gabranth]

ive cheated and given her a small messor barbarus pupae

[gabranth]

update the messor barbarus worker has been born and the queens carrying it about. ive also added a second pupae into the testtube

[Messorus]

@gabranth: C. ligniperda is somethink very very different than Messor.... You can´t compare Myrmicinae with Formicinae, if you think about keeping of colonies from queens.....
I think, that keeping a colony for example from some Myrmica species queen, isn´t easy and I also had problems with other species- P. pallidula, Temnothoraxes queens, Messor muticus......
Good luck with her An put some photos here

[gabranth]

my messor queen has so far acted the same as my ligniperda queen did

[gabranth]

another update my queens laid an egg in the last hour

[gabranth]

update my messors eggs have started to turn into small larvae + 2 messor barbarus workers and 3 barbarus pupae and the queens ok. people here say its hard starting a messor colony from a single queen so far its been easy. the last couple of weeks they have been eating fruit flies as well

[JimmyVe]

It is in deed very hard to start with a single queen of this species. Seems like you have been lucky or your are doing a great job.

Good luck.

[Skippy]

Yes , fine it seems to be easy , but this is one of the most hard period. You have to really feed that Messor queen , because she like to eat brood also in larvae stadium ... very often by Myrmecinae