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Hi!
It's been a l-o-o-o-n-g time since I've posted on this forum, probably because all my ants died last year ( It was my carelessness that caused it :( ) and plus it's been winter, so there haven't really been any ants out. But, don't be fooled into thinking that I'm giving up by the words just said, 'cause I'm ready to go with a new anting season!
Anyway, I just wanted some advice on keeping P. Imparis. Last year, my three-queened colony got up to maybe thirty workers, and then two of the queens died. I'm thinking that the remaining queen killed the other two, but here's my question: The colony was under stress when this happened( I was trying to move them into a plaster nest, so I had a light shining on their test tube), so do you think that because the queens were stressed, this behavior occurred?
I'm asking this because I really want to try a multi-queened colony again, but I'm not sure this would be the best thing to do since the other queens might get killed, and only one survive. Anyway, glad to be back, and thanks for any input you can give! :D
Hi,
first of all I would say that it was probably a bad idea to heat the nest with a lamp. This means unnecessary stress for the workers and especially for the Queen!
Please be more patient next time; after a while the ants will move into the new nest by itself. It may well be that the queens have died because of this wrong behavior.
Did you have the 3 queens from the beginning? Sometimes they don't accept new queens, especially when they are stressed.
Yours sincerely,
AIS ;D
I put the queens together a few days after they each had lain eggs ( I know, bad idea because of lost eggs, but I decided I wanted a polygynous colony.). I will remember next time not to shine a light on them though... it was my first year really keeping ants.
Ok, I hope you will be successfull!
Good luck,
AIS :D
Perhaps.. it might be an idea to keep one queen seperate and raise two colonys.. just in case it does happen again!
Well, I still would get a bigger colony if I started it out from more than one queen, and all but one queen got killed, I just kind of feel bad for the ones that get killed. I think I will try it again this year, not stress them out so much, and just hope for the best!