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the queen i have in my ant farm i have not seen i about a week but im sure she is fine i have sand in that one. i can not see any eggs yet. the other one i have as a back up in a small screw lid container is still alive but has not laid any eggs yet i have a wet cotton bud in there and im feeding her a water and honey mix i feed her every three days which she is eating (well its going ) but she seem happy enough when i take the lid off the feed her or change the cotton bud she does not try to escape even if she is right under the lid just miler meters from freedom. so im hoping for some eggs soon it have only been 2 weeks since capture.
i have posted her in my gallery but here one for the thread
Nice queen you got there. Two weeks and still no eggs? Hmm ... I think the problem is that she has too much "open space" and she feels insecure. Give her something where she can hide or be snugged. Like test tube. I'm sure she'll start laying.
Good luck
thanks for the advice mpir i have just moved her to the new farm i finished today covered it with a towel and put her in my shed where its dark so hopefully she will come out of her container and explore and find the farm i put her container in the foraging area so time will tell
the farm is a cork farm i built as starter nest area is 30cm x 20cm x 1 cm and the foraging area is 30cm x 20cm i hope that this will make her happy
be in in Australia good farms are hard to come buy and info even harder so i have to make my own its all trial and error. i just try to adapt the info i find here and see if it works.
some areas of Australia do have a 'temprete' climate, it may be that they need hibernation, depends where you live, if the temp drops below 10-15C in the winter, then they need to hibernate
good luck with her :D
Difficult to say which species she is. (maybe if you have better pics) but she looks nice. Hope she lay eggs soon. Good luck.
three weeks now and still no eggs and one of my queens have died
i was lucky enough to find anouther one to replace her so hopefully i have better luck with this one she looks the same a my other queens but she is bigger (begger head, thorax and abdonim) you can see the slits in the thorax where the wings where its funny though she is the only one i found and i did not see a flight and it has not rained lately so she might not be firtile but she has pulled her wing off
do you thing it might be a fertile queen she is a least twice the size maybe more the the other workers that look like her and are in this area but did not see a flight or any males i guess time will tell
Well it could be there was a small flight, so i would hang on to here for a while. The other queens.. i don't know, after three weeks still nog eggs... you could keep them for another week ore 2. They should have eggs by now. Good luck with you new queen.
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Thanks !