she's still alive and is moving a bit more than before she's really thin i don't think she's had food in a while even though the workers are full up my Tetramorium caespitum queen is also the same after her only worker died during hibernation lucky all my other ants are doing fine and laying loads of eggs
im sorry to say mate but i think id put her out of her misery. I doubt very very much she will regain strengh now, mine certainly didnt. Horrible to see a queen dying like that. :cry:
ive got my new queen now and im tyring to feed her workers as they seem really thin compared to mine. my attempt to merge the colony's has also failed but im not giving up
ok the queens defiantly dead now and i think im getting somewhere with merging the colony's as i think one of the workers from my old colony feed the new queen
Sad for you old queen but good news for the workers, i hope it works out well.
another update the queen killed one of the workers not long after a started putting them together so i didn't try and do it again until yesterday which was a complete success as the remaining 2 workers from the old queen have merged with the new colony and the queens not showing any aggression and is acting normally as if they weren't there
Well thats good... Perhaps the first one you tried still had traces of the old queen on her. Good luck anyways.. and put up some pics soon dude :)