rosswilson: Hi antstore Ant Suplier (11. Aug 2005 12:42)

Hi i have resent got alot of lasius niger queens from difrent flights and i want to sell them all to a ant retailer that will probly get more profit then i am offering them for

i have 100 lasius niger queens split into 5 tubes with lots of larvay for £200 thats £2 per queen :shock:
or 20 lasius niger queens in 1 tube for private dealers for £40 agin only £2 per queen

they canot be split up now so only thes offers stand preferable to people that are in the UK as shipment cost would be cheap
Photos on request

Cephalothorax: (11. Aug 2005 18:33)

Hallo rosswilson!
I hope you know that Lasius niger is a monogynous Ant?!?
When the first Ants will apear, they´ll definitely KILL all but one Queen, so that those colonies with more than one Queen do have only ONE in about 1,5 months... So you see, that NOONE will buy a colony with 100 Q´s for 200Pounds.. You get 2 Euro for each of the tubes from me... ](*,)

Greetings, Cephalothorax

rosswilson: (11. Aug 2005 19:43)

the queens are curently have no workers and are fine and i want to ship them to a buyer soon befor the first orkers hatch its up to the buyer to seperate them
and i have had plenty of offers for the amount im asking just not from ple in the UK i want somone in the UK to take them off mmy hands
50 queens for £100
and i have seen mean queens under rocks sometimes up too 20 queens under 1 rock

Awesome: (12. Aug 2005 08:40)

and i have seen mean queens under rocks sometimes up too 20 queens under 1 rock

Then its definitely not Lasius Niger, or you think they are queens but are not queens.
Lasius Niger is monogyn just like Cephalothorax already told you.

I feel sorry for the poor guy (or girl) who buys the ants from you, he or she will end up with probably just a few queens (1 in each tube) for a lot of money :shock:

HeldGoP: (12. Aug 2005 10:31)

and i have seen mean queens under rocks sometimes up too 20 queens under 1 rock

Then its definitely not Lasius Niger, or you think they are queens but are not queens.
Lasius Niger is monogyn just like Cephalothorax already told you.

I feel sorry for the poor guy (or girl) who buys the ants from you, he or she will end up with probably just a few queens (1 in each tube) for a lot of money :shock:

its definitely possible that he saw Lasius, they often start their colony under Pleometrose.

but they will fight each other till only one queen left. when they are locked up in glass, they will kill each other.

Awesome: (12. Aug 2005 15:44)

Thanks HeldGoP for the explanation, i didnt knew that :)

rosswilson: (13. Aug 2005 13:35)

i have seem loads of multi queens lasius colnys every time i go to the country ther is alway more then 1 queen under the same rock and they are the exsact same as the ants i have
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/rosswilson1989/a2.jpg

t354n: (16. Sep 2005 21:43)

hey im in london only 13 age could i buy 2 off u 10 pound?

LeonofLondon: (26. Sep 2005 18:09)

man you wont get a polygenus Lasius niger your probably getting confused with a servi formica species Formica fusca or Formica lemani depending on if you live in the north or the south they look simaler to lasius niger but are larger and jet black and they also have magor workers which could be mistaken for a queen.

MatthewG: (7. Nov 2005 18:45)

They look like Lasius niger to me. They do sometimes start colonies together, but the queens rarely fight each other. However, once you have about 10 or more workers hatch the workers start killing the queens (they hold them down and basically bite them to death) so you will only end up with one queen in the end.