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Cool, thanks for the info. A couple of Q's tho ^^. When you said honey suckle, did you mean the flower, the leaves or both? Also, does grass mean any grass, like off the lawn?
What will you do for humidity when the fungus get too big and you cant removethe lid without millions of ants swarming out and do you treat the leaves, eg boil them to remove bugs etc.
Both leaves and flowers from the honeysuckle are sometimes taken.
Any grass as long as its not treated with anything.
I moved the colony recently into two smaller containers that are easier to move an can be given extentions more easily, I put the whole nest box in a tray with PTFE round the edges so when I took the lid off the ants swarmed out but couldn't escape the tray. From there I just moved the nest and workers out the tank in the new containers.
As for additional moisture I just pour water in via a hole in the lid.
I don't do anything to the plants I feed them with.
Ok, bigger colony will be able to live without slaves, but at first F.sanguinea queens need slaves to help start that colony. I had few and without slaves they didn't bother to lay eggs. And i had them like that for about month, and they were hunting for small bugs and eating honey etc. alone. Few days after haching of the first slaves they lied their own eggs. Conclusion: F.sanguinea do need slaves. :)
Hello
F. sanguinea make slave expedition for new slaves just if their colony really need slaves, slave making isn´t imperative for them
i think it is possible to start a new colony from queen without slaves but it would be very difficult
i think it is possible to start a new colony from queen without slaves but it would be very difficult
Skippy did :grin: :grin: :grin:
It is possible but like you said; very difficult. And why make it hard when there is a easy way. ;)
Also, F. sanguinea with slaves, is laying also poor numbers of eggs.... Keeping first generation of her own workers was very hard, like Skippy said to me.... I´ve read, that in nature young queen visit other colony of Serviformica fusca and they will accept her for some season... Than she left their nest with some workers... The same think as with F. rufa, F. polyctena and other ,,Wood ant" species :grin:
Phasmid how did you get the camponotus colony did you go away and did you get permisson?
i also live in east sussex :)
I bought the big colony from antstore, about 7-10 workers. It was my first colony that had a queen. The other colonies (I have three small colonies) are from queens I collect when I go to the French Alps for the summer.
cool i have a queen of camponotus ligniperda but i'am not getting much luck she lays loads of eggs and they nevver turn into larvea
all that happens is they go brown or just eats them got any tips :)