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ANToine: Polyrhachis dives (9. Feb 2007 02:22)

:?: Does anybody knows if the P. dives produce more queens while the colonie grows ?
:?: All queens are fertile and lay eggs ?
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JimmyVe: (9. Feb 2007 09:05)

Hi Antoine,

I myself don't have experience with Polyrhachis dives , but in the German part of this forum you can find much information from these species, if you now a little German ? ;)
http://www.antstore.net/viewforum.php?f=124

There are very nice pictures of them to. ;)

ANToine: Fiquei na mma… (10. Feb 2007 15:15)

Obrigadão man! Mas já passei por lá… aliás foi só procurar pela espécie, não é mto difícil ;)
Realmente tem fotos porreiras. O problema é mmo o alemão, uma palavra ou outra inda apanho mas o resto é do caralho… Deve andar ela por ela com um alemão a ler português :musik05:
Fora isto, eu fiz duas perguntas mto especificas e gostava q me respondessem em vez de dizerem p’ra ir procurar não-sei-onde :roll:

Tá-se bem! 8)
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JimmyVe: (10. Feb 2007 15:35)

My Portuguese is not so good. ;)
But i understand that you would like some answers on you questions.
I'm sorry i can't help you with it. Like i sad, i don't have experience with this species. I wash just trying to help you.

Maybe if you use a translation page you can translate your question and put them in the German part of the forum where they discus these ants.

mpir: (10. Feb 2007 16:48)

Hi ANToine

I'm not sure how is it like with P. dives, but in general it is like this:

Ants do not produce new queens when the colony is young. They do this after the whole colony becomes somewhat mature. Meaning that they have enough workers (several thousand, depending on speices) and food. This usually happens within few years. When the colony is young they will not produce queens.

I'm not sure if the second question was intender for ANTSTORE. Queens are not fertile until they mate. Only after mating queens will produce workers. Queens that have not mated will lay eggs but only winged males will come out of it. No workers. So the colony will die.

Hope I could help.

ANToine: 3 in 1... (11. Feb 2007 03:31)

Hi Jimmyve – I was just kidding with you, of course :) (It's obvious that it’s difficult to understand such different grammars).
I already have a translator but the translation is often out of context. If you know a good one please let me know.
Thanks anyway for the tips. :thumright:

Hi Mpir - Thanks for the answer. :thumright:
I understand, but what I would really want to know is:

:?: When a colonie reaches a certain size, and produces queens and males, do they mate (between them) and do they join the colonie (since they can’t go anywhere!)? I think it’s an interesting question, don’t you?
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Sanguinius: (11. Feb 2007 11:31)

Hallo!

There is one problem: Most collonies just produce males [shadow=red]or[/shadow] females.
So I think they won't mate together ^^.

Greets Felix

JimmyVe: (11. Feb 2007 13:38)

That is an question i can answer. ;)
Sanguinius is right, (for most species) they only produce males or females, if you have winged ants in your colony you better leave them in, the probably die or help the workers.

if they produce males and females they don't mate, if they do it it is not going to work (like humans, if you now what i mean) ;)

For translating i use these sites (they are not perfect but it works ;) )
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
http://www.google.co.uk/language_tools?hl=en
http://www.systranbox.com/systran/box?id=TELENET-nl
The first one i use the most.

Greets