mzfckr- Are you sure they will shed their wings off and became workers?
Did it happen in your colonies or it's just your prediction?
If it are males they will die in a few weeks. If they are queens they will help in the nest as workers ore they will be killed.
Just make sure they can not fly out of you setup Steve and everything will work out just fine. :)
one guys colony shedded wings and all was fine.maybe it is in rare cases
All my queens from last year shed their wings and became workers :)
was it about this time they did it john ??
I did indicate by mistake in my introduction that I did have many years ago a colony of Temnotorax nilandery ,in fact it was a small colony of leptotorax sp. with about 30workers +larvas and nymphs without queen that I did find under a stone in the Meuse valley. I kept it in a very small gibs nest i a arena of Myrmica rubra . to my surprise there were no signe of any hostility: the leptothorax simply immobilised when a myrmica investigate and each ant keped away from the entrance of the other nest.Simply the Myrmicas ceased the preys transported by the leptotorax at each occasion.
i had a big lasius niger nest i put live mealworms moths ands flys stil alive with no wings ( im a bit sadistic too lo) also live grasshoper without back legs it was fun watching them instanly swarm and kill anything in there but the nest died and had to throw anyway y-tong nest