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Hello, all. I have a young colony of this beautiful camponotus breed, from Malta island. There are 7 workers, in the colony, at the moment, and they have spring laraves... But I don´t know, what is it, like ant breed. Will somebod know it??? :grin:
Welcom to forum.
Queen has wings! You might have a problem. Usually this means that the queen is not mated and will not produce workers. Only drones.
And usually only by photo it is imposible to determin exact species.
Happy ant-keeping anyway
Yes, I was decided to kill her in the alcohol, but than I saw egg! It is funny, I thought, than first workers will be tasting to take them off, and yes, they was doing it. But it´s now all right, the colony is very good.
Hi Messorus and welcome,
A few questions if i may. Did you capture the queens yourself ? ore buy/trade it with someone. Like mpir said, queens with wings ore more likely not to start a colony, but this one already has workers. So are the workers produced by this queen ore not...
And if it is possible post some better pictures. ;)
Greetings
yes it is possible ;) ... I also had this queen in home ,then it came to Messorus ... she layed some eggs and I also tought she is not fertiled ,but he wrote me then ,she has cocoons :shock: ...
...it is true no more ;)
some queens dont remove there wings for some reason although they are fertilized so there is a slime chance that your queen may be fertile but more likely not, and if the queen does keep her wings then the workers usually chew them off.
Sithmaster676
Jimy: Yes, I captured her myself, it was 16th of June, about 20 o´clock on Malta island.... Workers are her, I will add here a photo of her and cocons...
Sithmaster676:I first thought, than she isn´t fertile, but some days after, Skippy saw her first egg! Other queens of this campo wasn´t fertile and have no eggs...
If the workers are from this queen she is fertilized.
Okay post some pictures, and if possible better pictures of the queen and workers to.
This I took on camera ,when I received ants... looks like smaller barbaricus ,but more of light color
I will make some fotos of workers, and give it here, but int the evening... Skippy, thank you from beautiful foto :-P