FLYING ANT DAY in my Myrmica rubra colony! :D

Beitragvon ratgreen » 12. Jul 2008 14:41

@jimmyVe: well since everyone has been saying that there colony was doing some incest mating, then it sounds like it isnt that unlikely after all? i dunno im just guessing.
@steve: yer more and more common by the sounds of it, get some pics (lmao ant porn)
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Beitragvon JimmyVe » 13. Jul 2008 12:09

Incest mating in common with ants but they still need there flight. And that is why it is nearly impossible to do.
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Beitragvon Skippy » 13. Jul 2008 12:34

remember , a lot of colonies which you can buy from other keepers or shops , are from nature. In nature Myrmica is making big areas , where live a lot of colonies which feel like one big colony (like fire ant).

Keepers or shops which selling Myrmica , only get some your buy notice like "I want 4 queens and cca 200 workers" ... then keeper come to nature , and get it easily from this big area-colony. I am making it so too. In that big colony in nature are layed some eggs which are prepared to be fly ant , so when is keeper getting it , he getting also these eggs/larvae/pupae. So this is why are you have in colony fly ants. It will be only this year , next year I believe you will have only workers :) and first real your males/females you will have only when will be colony so big :)

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Beitragvon marc.tulley » 15. Jul 2008 21:26

mine did not need there flight , they mated outside the nest but in vwery confined space
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Beitragvon ratgreen » 15. Jul 2008 21:45

my males are trying to mate with the workers, there desperate, and then the workers fight back and take them out the nest.
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Beitragvon JimmyVe » 16. Jul 2008 07:50

Everything is possible with ants. You are lucky to experience such a flight Marc. Still this is a rare case.
Did they mate with queens from the same colony ? Did these queens lost there wings ? And where are they now, did they joined the old colony ?
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Beitragvon marc.tulley » 17. Jul 2008 17:47

Did they mate with queens from the same colony ?
Kind of, Queen lavae from another colony introdced before birth

Did these queens lost there wings ?
yes

And where are they now, did they joined the old colony ?
in another tube, not keen on joining the colony
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Beitragvon zachman030 » 16. Aug 2008 20:54

my friend had 3 males in his colony of about 50 workers two he dropped 3 unoregnated queens in there 2 were killed inmediatly ther other one in the mornins was near lid with no wings and and 3 males where around here gangbang?
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Beitragvon marc.tulley » 17. Aug 2008 22:42

lol saucey
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Beitragvon zachman030 » 17. Aug 2008 22:48

hmm yea really weird she has unhitched her wings and is currently residing under a stone think shes mated?
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