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The queen looks so great! Keep going with it!
Thank you Andie! :mrgreen:
Good luck with the ants,
Ants-Fan
Well here she is, the first adult to emerge from the cocoon after only 10 days and only 15 days after i first saw the tiny larvae. She is a beautiful bright orange and looks like shes been designated to looking after the kids. There are also a few more that hatched later this evening and are much paler, more yellow. You can see more pics on my blog.
http://www.hawgs.co.uk/files1/ants/desertorum/firstadult.jpg
The rest of the colony are still staying in the nest for most of the time but i am seeing more activity outside gradually. One annoying point is that they are using one of the nest chambers as their dump which may eventually attract mites. I can also see the empty cocoon on the tip from which the baby hatched :)
Lots of larvae and the newly hatched light coloured young ants. The big white lumps are pieces of chicken which they seem to enjoy and feed to the larvae.
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New ants continue to hatch daily and their numbers are growing really fast. The ants are now very active day and night hunting for insects to feed to the larvae, which is given to them after they have cut pieces off rather than give them whole corpses. There seems to be three nurseries for the larvae, the eggs and newly hatched are held in the nurses mouths and suspended mostly from the ceiling out of harms way. The older larvae have their own section and the oldest have another section. The pupae are also distibuted in different areas perhaps to regulate incubation ? but i still havent seen one actually hatching..
All further info will be here http://www.ant-blog.co.uk/ at my blog
What about them, whats the question ?????
Yes, Cataglyphis oasium workers are between 5 -17 mm and C. desertorum between 5 - 16mm. I wouldnt want one chewing on my finger though :) The larger workers are just as active in the arena as the smaller ones so they don't just spend their time guarding the nest.