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Thanks Markus. I think The workers or is "pygmys" the correct term for the fisrt workers just seem to delicate to let out so i will do as you suggest and wait until there are more. Crickets are the word your looking for. :wink:
Just a quick pic of two of my Polyrhachis dives tucking into a dungfly using the olympus with rubbish flash...
http://www.hawgs.co.uk/files1/ants/dives/dives.jpg
Photo with the same camera through the test tube. M.Barbarus.
You can see 4 stages of development in the dolls.
http://www.hawgs.co.uk/files1/ants/messor/messor7april.jpg
Very very nice with that Oly mate.. Excellent photos.. What other Spec. do you have then??
Hey Andie Great thread , May i inject my information, Correct me as i may be wrong guys but its just what i have read in the past. Isnt it the bigger soilder type workers that actually use the seeds to turn into a sort of ant bread that the colony then eats. I would of thort maybe at the begining of the colony stage they would be more inclined to eating bugs and sweet stuff. :?:
Adam
No, I have a small colony with more then 20 workers now and they already eat seeds now, the small Workers simply have sometimes problems to crack them so that making the seeds cracked first maybe help...
There is one ant with a big head in the colony from the beginning: the queen!
Very very nice with that Oly mate.. Excellent photos.. What other Spec. do you have then??
Presently just the olyrhachis d ives and Messor b arbarus Hopefully more later :)
Hello Markus thankyou for correcting me , like i said lol it was wot i had read in the past somwhere and wasnt sure.
Adam
This pic maybe of some interest as it shows a young worker opening a dandylion seed.
http://www.hawgs.co.uk/files1/ants/messor/seedsplit.jpg
Just a quick update on the second queen. She now has some pupae, she must be getting pretty hungry by now.
The first queen now has about 13 workers and an unknown amount of eggs, larvae and pupae which the queen is standing over. I'm offering cut up mealworms and blue bottles with the dandylion seeds which they have gathered up near the wet end of the test tube. I also offered a drop of honey on the end of a match stick today which they all seemed to relish.
http://www.hawgs.co.uk/files1/ants/messor/13workers.jpg
Awesome pictures, I only keep Camponotus species and i forget how quick other species grow. I'm considering messor structor with multiple queens as my next colony. Keep the pics coming mate there great.