ANTSTORE World of Ants

[ford-ute]

just curious (just think way ahead of my self) since i have quite wide and farm 4cm my queen has dug in and i can no longer see her but if later she has workers and some of them die or the queen herselfs would the works haul her or them out and put them on the trash or will they be left in the nest

just so i can tell when ants die in my farm

[mpir]

Yes, most likely they will bring all the dead ants up. At least all of my ants remove dead ones from the nest.

And thank you for writing in proper english and using punctuation.

[Wedge]

I don't know if different species deal with their dead differently, but most ants are fastidious and will move their dead sisters out of the nest; you may well find a funeral pile in months to come.

[SteveUK28]

Yes i also agree my ants remove there dead.. not that ive had many tho.. im sure as my colonys get bigger tho the number of dead workers is bound to rise.

[tail__]

In my Lasius niger colony dead workers are recycled quickly and eaten by larvae, so only small pieces of chitin are thrown out of the nest

[jimjam]

Just seen a dead worker being carried around in the nest...she got put into the grass which grows in the tank...looks quite Mafia ish ?(hiding the body in the forest!) lol

[JimmyVe]

Most species drop there dead 'sisters' with the trash. But there are species who eat them. So it is hard to say if the species you have will bring the queen above ground. If your colony is bigger and they bring the dead workers above ground they are going to do the same with the queen if she would die.

Try to remove dead workers once in a while.

[ford-ute]

Thanks for the help. i guess like always ill just wait and see having sand and not being able to see your queen is a real bugger!!

[JimmyVe]

not being able to see your queen is a real bugger

That is why i keep them in tubes until they have workers.

[ford-ute]

i am having dificulty finding test tubes

but i had to put my queen some where or she would die it all happened so soon i have always wanted a colony and then i found a queen so i just built her a farm

[JimmyVe]

It's not that it is bad to put her (on there self) in the farm but than you could have small problems like this one.

[ford-ute]

i know its not bad but like you said I could be watering and feeding a piece of soil for 6 or 12 mounths before i relise that my queen is dead

but these are the risks you take with this hobby i suppose

[SteveUK28]

ford Ebay is ya friend for test tubes

[ford-ute]

thanks steve ill check it out