KiamCameron: (12. Apr 2008 10:48)

Very Nice Colony Jimmy :)

And Skippy I know :P was hard to find insects then but now i got lots :D

Ant mad: (19. Apr 2008 15:09)

i have heard that Myrmica Rubra only have small nests of about 250-300 workers in the wild is this ture.
Thanks

JimmyVe: (19. Apr 2008 17:21)

No that is not true. They can have up to 20.000 workers in a single colony.

amrik singh: (22. Mai 2008 19:04)

hey,
some years ago I receaved some numbers of "insectes socaux"and there is an article of M.C.Cammaerts in1977 on the demography of colonys of Myrmica rubra in Brussels area : 1)the size of the worker population is NOT directly releted to the number of queens (one colony with 8 queens had 5.127 workers . an other with 2.561 had 97 Queens! )
2) the average population size (missing maybe the very small colonys) was workers 1904
3) 2 very big colonys had abit more than 5000 workers ... 7 big colonys between 2000 and 3600... 9 between
1000 and2000 w...and 7 between 400 and1000 .smaller colonys were not detected maybe because they are rarer.
4) 2 colonys with one queen had respectively 488 and 720 workers
I think than when the colony reach 3000or 5000 workers it lost its cohesion , emigrate to two differents winter nests, acquire differents smells and so split .

G.W.Elms the ile of Purbeck Dorset in a cold ,low ant desity area study colonys of M.rubra found anaverage of1,176 workers/colonyall poligynes with the biggest colony having 2,980 w .
Myrmica sabulety had an average of1566 w at the same location with an average of 3 or 4 queens but in an another location (Hartland Moor)only 523 w with the majority of colonys monogyne.
M.scrabrinodis seems to be monogynes in some area oligogyne in others:one queen colonys average288 w .3 or 4 queens one 1210

JimmyVe: (23. Mai 2008 15:15)

This is great information amrik. Thank you for sharing.

JimmyVe: (30. Jun 2008 21:18)

Nieuwe foto's van mijn kolonie.

New pictures of my colony.

ProXi: (30. Jun 2008 22:21)

Wat geef je ze op foto 105 en 101 ?

hoeveel mieren zijn het nu wel niet ondertussen :P

Ik vind dit echt een super soort
Ik geniet ook echt van mijn kolonie
Ondanks de moordpartijen nog steeds

SteveUK28: (1. Jul 2008 10:53)

ohhh kewl Jimmy.. do u not put cotton wool in with ur honey??

JimmyVe: (2. Jul 2008 14:23)

Wat geef je ze op foto 105 en 101 ?

op foto 101 geef ik ze dit
en op foto 105 geef ik ze dit
Maar ze zijn eigenlijk gek op alle zoetigheid.

hoeveel mieren zijn het nu wel niet ondertussen

Ik ben geweldig slecht in zo'n schatting maar ik vermoed toch een goede 500 (of meer)

@ Steve: No i don't, i know sometimes ants drown in it but i must say i'm lucky with that. It don't happen very often. ;) And this way the ants like it better than when i put cotton wool in it.

KjeldWie: Re: Foto's Myrmica rubra (30. Aug 2009 10:42)

has somebody some myrmica rubra queens for sale for me?
I have a colony with only one queen inside and want to add some.

p.s.
ik ben nederlands