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Looks still like a Media.
One of the bigger Medias.
Perhaps one of the smaller Majors!?
But you could still await something bigger! :grin:
How does the inside of the Nest look?
Yay still something bigger to look forwars too :0
The inside of the nest is packed with mainly dandelion seeds and some bird seeds, also a variety of wild seeds ive been collecting. The water reserve is getting much smalle, should i think about offering them another tube or a y-tong nest?
my second colony is also doing well so i suppose ill have to get rid of one soon.
Of course you always have to compare the ants to the others, for example the head of the queen.
In the picture you can see some examples:
meny medias, often with big heads, but not as big as some Majors (with ?), and the puppets marked seem to get also bigger!
If her head is not as big as the head of the queen, its not one of the big majors! :grin:
@ Markus. I havent seen her out since and don't really like to disturb the nest with light, so i'm going to be patient and wait :)
On another note, yesterday the ants emptied the test tube of all the dandelion seeds and directly placed them outside but next to the tube, for two reasons perhaps
1: There is simply no room left inside ? or
2: The seeds are no longer viable because of their small size perhaps ?
I think its probable because of the lack of room as my second colony still keeps their's.
http://www.hawgs.co.uk/files1/ants/messor/springclean.jpg
Well, you could simply look! ^^
Lack of Room could be a reason, I don't realy know, but bringing their seeds outside is often seen,
even their brood could be brought outside, often seen when the outside is warmer or if there is not enough light.
By the way:
Disturbing them is not so bad, every feeding means liddle panic by mines and one colony (the one, I look often after) got now 330 ants (some weeks before) much more important is the temperature and with 26°C you are on a good way!
I realy wonder, how meny they are, by seeing the activity outside and in the nest-entry I would say: 60 - 80, perhaps over 100...
what would you say?
No idea how many but at a guess at least 100 :shock:
So i have given them another test tube next to this one so perhaps they may move into this or use it as a store for the seeds they have moved. The water in the original test tube has now about gone. There are about 3 -4 of the majors but i think there is bigger to come :)
http://www.hawgs.co.uk/files1/ants/messor/RG.jpg
I can imagine 90 ants, looks good!
http://www.hawgs.co.uk/files1/ants/messor/twintubes.jpg
Well it has only taken them a couple of days to move their store to the new test tube but they have only moved the millet and have left the dandelion seeds where they were outside. Just incase anyone is wondering, i have 1/2 a toilet roll covering it all :)
In another holding-thread someone could see first, that they started to put seeds first in a nest an little time later they moved in it!
It could be a sign for moving into the new nest.
PS.: Another possibility to cover the nest is aluminium ...-Folie (searching the english Word),
it could help to just cover the new nest, sometimes they follow the darkness (and heat)!
Come to think of it Markus, i had recently removed the foil and replaced it with a half of toilet roll tube so i could see better, so perhaps as you say they were looking for a darker place. I have left it as it is and now the new test tube is full. I was hoping the queen would have moved into this as the water reserve has gone but she must be happy where she is.
This pic shows the ants taking a piece of cooked chicken back to the nest, a change from crickets and roaches. I don't bother with sugar/honey water any more either as i found that they really wer'nt interested. Water is available from the second test tube water reserve.
There is cotton wool everywhere outside the entrance,, such a mess.
http://www.hawgs.co.uk/files1/ants/messor/chicken.jpg