Messor minor hesperius alates

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Postby anthouse on Sat Nov 28, 2009 2:50 am

2 year old colony, about 1000-1500 workers, one month ago they started to rearing queens, and this process doesn't stops.
Now there only larvaes and pupas of queens, and already more than 50 imago queens...
Any idea how to stop this cicle and remove the queens?
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Postby baumarkthammer on Sat Nov 28, 2009 1:50 pm

It depends on your nest, but mostly you don´t have a chance to remove the queens. Are you sure that there are only pupas of queens?
It would be strange if there would be only queens in "production".
In my opinion you have to wait untill they start their flights and go away on their own.
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Postby anthouse on Sat Nov 28, 2009 4:14 pm

Simple vertical display.
Very rarely is possible to see yang workers, and when we looking at brood...
Only queens, queens, queens...
Should i do something, or let them alone?
It looks that alate-breeding process doesn't go to stop!
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Postby anthouse on Sun Nov 29, 2009 7:52 pm

someone had such thing - only alates brood for long time?
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Postby Zagone on Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:12 pm

All I can say is that I doubt they'll keep it up forever. And if I were to guess, I'd think temperature and misture conditions might have a hand in it, so try changing those perhaps?
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