ANTSTORE World of Ants

[king ant]

how long does a Lasius niger to grow from egg to ant and how long they live[schild=1 fontcolor=8B0000 shadowcolor=C0C0C0 shieldshadow=1]llala la[/schild][schild=19 fontcolor=000000 shadowcolor=C0C0C0 shieldshadow=1]ANTS RULE[/schild]

[Pugberto]

8 to 10 weeks to hatch. Workers live for 1 year and the Queen 7 to 14 years.

[Skippy]

Yes ,world record of longest life of queen is 29 years by Lasius flavus ,and Lasius niger queen can live to 20 years

[sithmaster676]

in a lab scientist had a Lasius niger queen live of 22 years
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[Kiam]

Its abit dumb off the colonies because after the queen dies they all die or will they adopt a new queen I dont think they will :/

[badman]

thats the natural order of things. If they are a successful colony they will have swarmed and spread their genes.

[Kiam]

Yes but will they accept a new queen?

[Dr.House]

no

[Edit:] Okay, my fault ... that's not right ... as food they might accept her

[Kiam]

lol is there anyway you can make them accept her in captivity? I heard if you put her in a test tube and workers outside they start getting her scent or something...

[badman]

They might.... but I don't see why. All (simple) life exists to propogate it's own genetic information, to expect an ant to look after an alien queen is to expect it to behave altruistically, which I doubt an ant is capable of.

The situation of putting eggs form one colony into another is different, as the ants are being tricked.

[miszt]

I guess if the queens came from the same colony originally then it may be possible, but i very much doubt that it wuld work otherwise

[JimmyVe]

It is always difficult to give a colony a new queen, in 90% it will not work. but sometimes it does, if you have a really big (ore special) colony it is worth a try.