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He! I'm a he! :shock: Yeah, the nickname is a bit girly, isn't it. :?
The ants (or rather, the ant plus some unexciting eggs) are on a shelf in my bedsit, so just ordinary room temperature. I won't be running heating till October at the earliest. I'm never home during the day, but I know it gets quite warm some nights in summer, so presumably the flat's been reasonably warm most of the time.
I'll wait another couple of weeks, and if nothing's changed, I'll be getting very concerned. :(
sorry ;)
Still nothing. I was wrong before; the eggs/larvae/pupae/whatever aren't even as big as 2mm yet.
How often should I be taking out the cotton wool to let fresh air circulate? I try to do it once a week, but maybe don't always manage to do it quite so often. Occasionally I'll replace the cotton wool bung with a fresh one if it starts to smell bad.
Should I try feeding the queen now? She's been almost two months without food. I could give her a little honeywater and a little bit of spider? Or maybe tuna instead of spider?
you could try feeding but she doesnt need to untill her first workers are born hibernation starts next month so you prob wont see anything till march onwards next year
I was getting too worried so I put some tuna into the tube this evening. I just checked and she has left the eggs and walked over to it. Presumably she's eating; I didn't want to disturb her by checking more carefully. Tomorrow, I'll remove the tuna and add a bit of cotton wool soaked in honeywater.
And still nothing. :(
The eggs are still tiny. We're talking less than 2mm each. She laid them nearly 3 months ago, and in the last 2 months there's been no change whatsoever. The queen still seems healthy and is still watching over the eggs, but they don't seem to be developing at all.
Any ideas what could be wrong?
i've 1 L asius niger too who has eggs but diddnt grown anything. that was 3 months ago too.
We just dont have a female with the -kugh- from a male. ( but maybe its not treu )
Just wait till shes dead then we know enough.
I don't know. I was wondering the same thing, but I thought unfertilised eggs would still grow, but only as males, not as (more useful) females. The whole haplodiploid thing is pretty confusing though, so I'm really not sure what to expect.
We only can sit and wait :P
So...I ended up giving up on the 2009 queen, as the eggs clearly still weren't anywhere near hatching when it got to the point where I'd have needed to hibernate her. So I, erm, euthanised her. :\ In retrospect, that was a mistake, but this was WAY past the nine weeks or so I'd been told was the maximum before new ants hatch.
In 2010 I collected three queens, and had exactly the same experience - tiny little eggs that barely seemed to have grown after three or four months. This time, I hibernated the queens and eggs in the fridge, and took them out again this April. The eggs were still unhatched. I almost gave up again, except one of the colonies had "eggs" that looked large enough to be larvae, so I figured that maybe they were actually growing, just about three times more slowly than people had suggested they would.
Yesterday, I checked on them again and all three colonies now have some young ants scurrying around. It's taken at least 9 months for the colonies to reach this point, rather than the 7-9 weeks I was told to expect. Does anyone have any idea whether this is normal, and what could have caused it? My flat is probably not the warmest of places, although it's surely warmer than a nest outside would be, even underground. Apart from that, I can't think of anything that's obviously wrong.
it goes slowly, my ant queen wasn't fertilized also, had one ant queen who was, but it is slow, but when it is beginning to grow, it will be faster.