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Santa Claus: (15. Nov 2007 12:13)

This night my friend sent me fungus from Berlin to Kiev, but I saw the news about strike on railway this morning :(
Is anybody know if my train start yesterday in 21:27 - is it stopped by workers on strike or not?
This train had to be in Warshava by 06:04...

Santa Claus: (19. Nov 2007 18:45)

Thanks to all for helpfull information about Acromyrmex!
Fungus came last freeday (16 Nov). Now queen is ok. She packed up little pieces of fungus and look after it with care.
New pics I'll place into my gallery: Acromyrmex .

JimmyVe: (19. Nov 2007 20:31)

Good job Santa Claus. ;) Very nice pictures to !

Did the workers accepted the queen ? Hope she will start a nice colony for you.

Santa Claus: (19. Nov 2007 21:42)

Thanks Jimmy:)!
Workers are alone, they carrying for reserve piece of fungus. I'm affraid to add them to queen because they can kill her.
Hope she will be a good girl and make a great colony ;)

Skippy: (19. Nov 2007 21:48)

So I cannto to add worker with queen? ... hmm , dont know , I maybe will try it and study , no all workers at that one time , but slowly ... one ant , next day second and third ant ... etc , maybe it´ll be ok

fungus from a shop already on the way to me , so all is ok , also campo sericeus on the way ;) (I still didnt pay and they sent me it :lol: )

Skippy

Santa Claus: (20. Nov 2007 15:59)

Today I looked on the fungus through magnifier and I found 1st egg. Then I make a photo. When opened this pic on PC I was surprised :) It seems that there are 4 eggs on the fungus...
How many eggs you see? :)

JimmyVe: (20. Nov 2007 16:06)

Workers are alone, they carrying for reserve piece of fungus. I'm affraid to add them to queen because they can kill her.

I added my queen directly to the fungus with workers (but there where only about 10 workers) and they accepted here. Maybe like Skippy said, put a few workers with her, wouldn't harm the fungus, they could help building it for the queen, eggs, larva and new workers. ;)

If i'm not mistaken, i see 3 maybe 4 eggs, and 3 larva ? not ?

Santa Claus: (20. Nov 2007 16:45)

I put ony tiny little worker to queen. In 5 minutes she killed him - she crushed his abdomen :(

Skippy: (20. Nov 2007 17:47)

:( ,... it depends also on queen´s character , I studying it with camponotus vagus , some queens kill workers and some no . Also it depends on actual stress-rate of queen. When is queen stressed or prepared on dangerous , she´ll kill. Whe is she ok and worker slowly will come there and try make contact with her slowly , it could be ok ;)

Sorry bad EN

Skippy

JimmyVe: (20. Nov 2007 18:21)

Sorry to hear that Santa Claus, you can try it one more time ore just hope the eggs will hatch soon so you have new workers to take care of the fungus and queen.


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