miszt: (1. Aug 2007 21:55)

hmm my queen has started munching her way thru the brood :( and theres no sign of the hatched worker, i wonder if she ate her!

JimmyVe: (2. Aug 2007 22:30)

never heard of a queen eating a worker. Sometimes they eat there own brood, but a worker. (could be, but i doubt it.)

Lowth01: (5. Aug 2007 09:31)

One of my Camponotus herculeanus workers has disappeared :O the ant was always outside of the test tube and used to collect the food i gave it but there seems to be no sign of it at all and the food has not been touched. If the ant has escaped i dont think its made its way back to the farm but i dunno. The queen only seems to have 5 workers now insted of 6. What do you think? has the ant escaped or has it died? help!

JimmyVe: (5. Aug 2007 12:59)

Difficult to say, she could died ore escaped. If she died there must be a dead ants somewhere ore a peace of it. If she escaped you need to search for here. ;)

miszt: (6. Aug 2007 19:33)

o no! disaster struck today, i think the queen got a bit over excited using the cotton wool that stops the water, she has been pulling bits off to plug the entrance to the tube, but i she pulled to much out n the tube flooded :( i managed to transfer her and the brood to another test tube, but i think the pup is dead, she's left it alone, however the larve and eggs she has pilled up together, so hopefully they are still ok, was going to leave her alone today, thank god i checked!! o well, at least another month before workers arrive then

JimmyVe: (8. Aug 2007 16:57)

That was not clever of here. ;) They sometimes do that, i try to put much cotton in the back, but not to much.

If they where not to long in the water they probably will be just fine.

miszt: (8. Aug 2007 17:13)

the larvae are moving around, so they are ok :D n she's happily looking after the eggs, so i recon they are ok, the pup was dead tho, she put it onto the pile of trash :(

JimmyVe: (10. Aug 2007 12:53)

Sorry to hear that miszt, but there will be more pupa soon. ;)

miszt: (10. Aug 2007 13:01)

shes eaten one of hte larvae :( not having much luck here! lol but mayb it died in the water before, the other larvae are still movin happily

JimmyVe: (10. Aug 2007 13:14)

As long if it stays with that one, there is not a problem. Do you give here food ? Maybe she was hungry, if not, it could be it was already dead.

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