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Very good news. ;)
If the workers stay long enough without a queen they could accept a new one, but that is hard to tell an always risky.
I would give every queen there own tube, because we ore not sure these species can have more queens in one colony (or do you ?).
It should work out if you give the brood to a new queen.
Good luck.
Very good news. ;)
If the workers stay long enough without a queen they could accept a new one, but that is hard to tell an always risky.
I would give every queen there own tube, because we ore not sure these species can have more queens in one colony (or do you ?).
It should work out if you give the brood to a new queen.
Good luck.
The three queens only were together 'till I arrived at home, when I made the photo, now they are each one in your own little acrylic box, so the first one to lay the eggs will get the brood of the dead queen. The workers will be released in my garden, unfortunally.
I will not take this risk to set a queen with the workers inside the formicary, because I'm sure they will kill the queen!
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Great news. My queens of this camponotus got eggs. Uhuuuuuuuuuuu!!! Check the photos. They are not so good, but will give you an idea about the situation.
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http://www.megagaleria.com/pictures/Pic_17036_24.jpg
http://www.megagaleria.com/pictures/Pic_17036_25.jpg
Very good! Excellent news. Hopefully many of them will develope all the way! :D
Great news. ;) Good luck.
Great, great news. I got the last larvaes of the dead queen and did set inside the little box of the new queen, since it already got its own larvaes and the queen adopted them. ;^) My idea is to get some larvaes of the second queen and give it to the first, since they are very different in colour and size, it will be interesting to see the deveoplment inside the formicary.
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http://www.megagaleria.com/pictures/Pic_17036_26.jpg
http://www.megagaleria.com/pictures/Pic_17036_27.jpg
As I told above, I started an experiment days ago with my camponotus sp. I got some eggs and larvaes from another camponotus bigger, and darker, and I gave them to my queen, the smaller and lighter, and the sp queen adopted the eggs and larvaes, fed them, and now that the adopted workers were born the queen is eating them.What can be the reason? Because the strange feromon of the ants were alive in the larvaes already, so why the queen took good care of the larvaes for eating them right now?
Could be she does not have enough food reserves. Or stress.. Or just she knew they where not hers.. there are many reasons.
Now I belive that she knows the larvaes are not from hers. Check the photo in the blog: http://www.camponotus-ba.blogspot.com/
But if they are killing the workers new born, why the queen took a good care of them before?
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That is difficult to find out melk. Could be a lot of reasons (like Steve said). Hope she will not do that with her own workers to.