Messor barbarus Nupcial fligths :D

[thecowmaster]

In the last month, in the middle of it, there were nupcial fligths.

In one of them all my neighberhood got covered by Messor barbarus males, and no queens -.- but when I was walking in the street my sister found a queen with no wings! Guess what... someone had steped on the her, and the could walk anymore, I caugth her but she died some days after.

In a second nupcial fligth I caught 4 queens with wings, and more or less 20 males, and I kept them together to see if they would mate... But nothing happened, the males now all have gone, and there are only left the queens, now I have them in tubes with water, to see if happens something.

In that day my mother caught in the street a queen with no wings, no is in a tube too... Now what is need is pacience.

[Creature]

Seems that you are out of luck

So guess what , i wish you luck ^^

Please make some Pictures. I would like to see your ants

[thecowmaster]

Yeah I will do that, but my camera does't have a very good quality

[Lewis]

oh well check out my Messors jut next to your topic
i have some average pics

[thecowmaster]

Here is a foto from the queens. Not close shot, only on the containers...

[Creature]

But you cant keep them in these Tubes. They will die without a water storage

[thecowmaster]

Yeah I know... But i sometimes moister the bottom of the tube (there is some cotton in there), I am waiting to some testing tubes arrive, at the moment I only have these