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[shane]

My red Messor queen I got from here though post 4 years ago is still going strong keeping at around 1000 worker ants.

Heres pic of my queen .


Hope this colony has winged queens one day

[AntsNational]

Awesome ! She is very beautiful! Can you post more photos of the colony?

[shane]

Yeah

Queen



And colony.





Also my youtube channel there on when I do videos of them.
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[shane]

This colony will be having a media worker boost it seems .




A Major



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[shane]

Small video update.
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[shane]

More pics of Red Messor barbarus queen.





The nest

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[Simo_Roma]

Hello! congratulations for your colony! I also possess the Messor Barbarus .... I bought the queen with 4 workers .... I also bought the starter ants alpha C
!!! I do not understand English I'm using the translator ...
maybe you can give me some advice for the start of my colony?

[shane]

Just give them a bit of crushed seed at start

[shane]

Queens is doing so well this year that colony has alates, New pupae queens x2 and a drone male x1 and maybe more hidden away in nest.

Pupae Queen.


Pupae Male carried off by a super major.



Red queen of this colony.


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[phasenp]

Nice one Shane! Very good looking coloration on the queen. Have you done any nest / foraging area modifications since you got the colony?

[shane]

Nice one Shane! Very good looking coloration on the queen. Have you done any nest / foraging area modifications since you got the colony?

Yes Queen is very red for a Messor barbarus and I do wonder if she could be a new species of Messor at times.
Only a bigger nest, The foraging tank is still a small starter set A im using but still seems fine.

[AntsNational]

What an impressive colony, and such a beautiful color! Awesome job man!

[shane]

Some more added photo's of colony.
Red Queen.



Colonys drone virgin dark queen that lived in colony for 7 months working like a worker major ant
but sadly colony turned on her near xmas last year


She keeped well away from red queen when she went in nest to feed larvae.


2 other virgin queens but there died as colony turned on them for unknown reasons.
Maybe there smell changed from colonys..




Pupae queen

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[shane]

Colony videos.

From 2014.


From 03.03.2016.


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[shane]

Log: 06.04.2016
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Eggs larvae pupae in nest seem to be around 690 to 700+ with a mix of them with most been baby larvae in middle of the cluster.
Seems a baby boom and soon to be over 1500+ ants in this colony.
Over last months there have been at a nice balance of around 1000 with old ants dying off in there 100's as they do in week.
There garbage zone in just 3 weeks is piled high again so ready once more for a clean out.



Colony numbers are around 900 but the baby boom will be making it close to 1500+ soon
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