ANTSTORE World of Ants

[JimmyVe]

foto's

[Skippy]

This campo is like dull-scelet C.fallax

[JimmyVe]

paar nieuwe foto's van deze kolonie

[Skippy]

Very nice colony Jimmy ,I also would to have some like this ,I see this specie grow very quickly ,on last photos from February I see only queen and eggs and larvae and here ,many many workers ,after 2 years you will have swarming in home
So keep up the good work

Skippy

[JimmyVe]

nieuwe foto's

new pictures

[JimmyVe]

Met spijt moet ik meedelen dat de koningin van deze kolonie gestorven is, net nu er zo'n mooi soldaat de kolonie had versterkt...

I'm sorry to say, the queen of this colony has died. I liked these ants very much, specially the new soldiers, very beautiful ant.

[Necturus]

Im sorry to hear that...very nice ants indeed.
Greetings,
Necturus

[miszt]

aww thats such a shame JimmyVe!

[JimmyVe]

In deed, if everything goes wright i should have a new queen of these species in October. But i have to start over again form scratch....

[mpir]

@JimmyVe

Why don't you try the trick that was already suggested here on the forum once. A little trick that beekeepers are using when the queen bee dies.

So what they do is, they put the queen in a small box enough for her to move around and they put wire mesh (grid, net) on one side so she is in contact with other bees but they can't get to her and kill her. So what happens is that after a few days the odor and phoromones of the new queen take over the old nest and the queen is accepted. They put the queen out of the box and the colony continues.

Try using something like this. If after a week the new queen is not accepted... well you tried, and you lost nothing.
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Good luck

[JimmyVe]

Hey, thanks mpir, worth a try, but i'm not receiving the new queen until October. But i think the workers will be fine until than.

[JimmyVe]

Still no new queen but the workers are doing great, i hope i receive a new queen for this colony next month. But than is the question if they would accept her...

Nog steeds geen nieuwe koningin voor deze kolonie. Messchien krijg ik er volgende maand eentje, maar dan is het nog de vraag of ze haar wel gaan acepteren...

[JimmyVe]

Raar, zoals eerder vermeld was de koningin van deze kolonie gestorven. Er was nog veel broed aanwezig en die is dan ook stilaan uitgekomen, toen er bijna geen broed meer over was heeft de kolonie 2 koninginnen poppen 'gemaakt'. Deze zijn uitgekomen tot 2 mooie gevleugelde koninginnen. Nu dat deze twee koninginnen er zijn is er terug nieuw broed in de kolonie (nog wel geen broed uitgekomen maar volgens mij worden het gewoon werksters). Nu vraag ik me af hoe het komt, deze koninginnen zijn toch niet bevrucht ? ...
Een paar foto's om het beter uit te leggen.
Discussie hier aub.

Weird, like i said before the queen from this colony died. There was plenty of brood in the colony when she died. When almost all the brood hatched they workers 'made' 2 queen larva, these 2 hatched to two beautiful winged queens. Now that these 2 queens are in the colony again there is brood. (not yet hatched but i'm sure its going to be workers) Now i'm wondering, the queens are not fertilized ? ...
Some pictures to explain a bit better.
Discus here please. Thanks.



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[JimmyVe]

Het is bijna zo ver. Hier zie je al cocons van het nieuwe broed, nog een weekje ofzo en dan weete we wat er uitkomt.

We are almost there. As you can see there are cocoons from the new brood. In a week ore so we know what will hatch out of this cocoons.

[JimmyVe]

Deze foto's zijn een paar weken terug getrokken. Hier zie je een mannetje, verloopig zijn er slecht 3 mannetjes. Er lag toch veel broed (zoals je kan zien op de voorige foto's) en dan slechts 3 mannetjes ? Zou het kunnen dat één van de mannetjes één van de nieuwe koninginen heeft bevrucht ?

These pictures where taking a few weeks ago. Here you can see one of the 3 males, from all the brood (as you can see above) only 3 males, could it be the rest hatched into workers ?
Is there a possibility one of the males fertilized one of the new queens ?