Formica fusca - Queen Adopts Adult Workers and Vice Versa

Formica fusca - Queen Adopts Adult Workers and Vice Versa

Beitragvon Mikey_Bustos » 31. Dez 2009 04:28

This summer was a great experience housing various species of ants, and the Formica fusca ants in particular proved to be an epic adventure in itself. Here's a video which describes how I was able to introduce some unrelated adult worker ants that had been orphaned to a queen who had been displaced from an original colony.

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Re: Formica fusca - Queen Adopts Adult Workers and Vice Versa

Beitragvon Creature » 31. Dez 2009 10:18

Congratulations on that :D

We have somebody ( ERNE ) in the german forum , who had a whole colony of adult acromyrmex workers adopted to his new colony.

He mad a setup so the both colonys could "smell" each other.

And after a while he opened " the gates " between both colonys. Now they are one union


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Re: Formica fusca - Queen Adopts Adult Workers and Vice Versa

Beitragvon JimmyVe » 3. Jan 2010 13:26

Nice, very good work. :)
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Re: Formica fusca - Queen Adopts Adult Workers and Vice Versa

Beitragvon Mikey_Bustos » 8. Jan 2010 12:52

Thank you, guys! I'm happy it turned out, too, and look forward to her family this year!
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Re: Formica fusca - Queen Adopts Adult Workers and Vice Versa

Beitragvon jeffrey432 » 11. Jan 2010 18:33

Can't wait to see a nice big colony video of that gyne :D
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