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- yes ,they mean it like callow ant (these UK and USA names :lol: ... harvester ants ,leafcutter ants etc... hehe ) ... I dont know ,I always using "young worker" ;)
But like I wrote ,DONT DOING IT ,IT IS BAD IDEA. And pls ,no question "why
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Why?
sorry.
...because ... if is colony older ,it produce bigger and bigger workers and queen produce more and more eggs and if you´ll get cocoons of old colony into your young colony ,it looking bad (small young workers with old big workers ,it is not nature type colony) . By this system you´ll have many workers and a few of larvae,cocoons and eggs near it - and it also looking bad. It is good to make up colony by nature and dont make up colony bigger by this "plastic system". Of course - more workers ,more food and they can eat broods!
eh there a type of ant called polyergus or slaver ant they cant work so the slaver ants raid other nests to take eggs and coccoons to be raised by the other slaves to work the for slaver ants :| :|
...yes ,it is specie specialized to this work ;) ,for me is it parasit ant ,I had one colony in home and they need these slaver ants ,they dont know eat myself ,clean and feed larvae ... they only stay on one place in nest and keep rest. I got every second week some cocoons of Formica rufibrarbis there and if someone of polyergus looked out of nest and looked these cocoons outside ,he quickly went into nest to call army of polyergus ants and they came for all these cocoons. It was interesting to look ... but it is hard to keep this species. Colony with 3 queens died after 3 months :(
how long do callow ants stay that way?
3-5 hours or so
depends on the species, Lasius niger for eg, sumtimes hatch very early from their coccons, and will stay as curled up 'ghost' ants for about a week before finally turning black and walking about
in deed, depends on the species, some species a few hours, some a few days.