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Well, it _could_ be ok. As i mentioned in another thread, if those guys in asia collect a nest they do it during daytime.
So lets say a colony has 10.000 ants: 100 queens, 1000 alates, 3000 workers working in and on the nest and 5900 workers searching for food etc. Now the nest gets ripped out of the tree and shipped to germany. During shipping they got no food, they try to rescue the queens for sure... But the colony is highly destabilised when you get it, its missing all the real workers, it got way too much queens and it got males that just need food and dont do anything. Also all the eggs and brood got eaten or died.... They try to kill all the males and weak ants to be abled to operate again.
Ach ... so colony from nature hmm , true , when you cut only nest , there you´re getting mostly workers which are young and which do not know to search food yet. You can see it in formicariums, young workers has fear to get out from nest - they only waiting in nest for workers which are searching for food - and which are in nature. True how donbilbo wrote , firstly they will eat brood , then kill males ... and then you´ll see killing workers = not to eat them , but only kill to reduce population of nest +/- to population for what is available optimal food quantity. Queen´s egg produce is stopped for now probably - and will be estamblished at food income optimal. It works like economy :) of bigger company => no money = no production = kick non-skilled workers off work = bigger income = start production
when you all talk about so much queens there , how much queens is there then ?
How could one know how many queens there are if they are shipped in their natural nest... I removed the nest from one of my colonies and i counted ~40 queens.
How could one know how many queens there are if they are shipped in their natural nest...
I am always counting it :) , I know it is not simple , but I always do it ... before getting them into formicarium
I have seen at least 3 queens, that said I have let them move nest completely in the dark. I wanted them to move nest to a specific corner of the basin where it would be easiest to maintain them from. The humidity is just under 80% and the temp is at a constant 25-26 degrees C. The 200 dead workers is a high estimate, I've collected probably abou 50 from the basin, but they are disposing of some of them in a corner that I haven't cleaned out yet- the number includes the winged males which they are killing off. I think egg production has stopped for now, whilst they re-establish and adjust, but there are still about *1000 brood in the new nest, and about 700-800 workers :)
p.s paulhdear- I have frozen all my feed (crickets + locusts) due to not being able to get any over xmas, and have been thawing them out in boiling water and then feeding them to my p.dives, which seem to like them as much as before. Are your crickets fresh? Can't think of any reasons that your colony wouldn't find them 'kosher' :P