ANTSTORE World of Ants

[Pugberto]

The weather was good yesterday and all the ant nests in my area began there final Nupitul (!) flight. At evening there were Lasuis Niger and Lasuis Flavus Queens everywhere. I already had Lasuis Niger queen so I collected a few Lasuis Flavus queens. I put one into one tube and four into another for the moment, when I came to move them this morning they were relaxed and cleaning one another. Have they created a colony together?

[miszt]

Do they have wings still? Strange for them to be be together so happily, are you sure they arnt biting each other? lol

[sithmaster676]

i have found a colony near where i live under a stone that had both a Lasius flavus colony and a Lasius niger colony because Lasius flavus are so timid they share there nests on occasion with other species
Sithmaster676

[Pugberto]

Do they have wings still? Strange for them to be be together so happily, are you sure they arnt biting each other? lol

Yeah not winged. Right now there huddled together in the corner of the tube washing themselves and each other.

[Kiam]

It really is possibile I had 2 queen ants (lasius niger) in test tube and they both laid eggs lol and were like friends i think but when the first workers get born i believe they kill all the queens till theres one left..

[miszt]

culd u post where u found ur Flavus on the Nuptial Flights database, they are extremly hard to find now where i live (west london), they used to be pretty abundant on the commons around here, but theres been a massive decline recently i've noticed

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[Necturus]

Hello Pugberto,
run a search on pleometrosis. As soon as the first workers apear, all but one queens will be killed. If the surviving queen is not too badly injured from those fights, she will have her own colony. Been experimented with thousands of times, always the same result.
Also, why do you collect more then one queen? Taking care of a single colony will be hard enough once they grow, you will need a decent tank for them next year with the option to add more basins. Expenses for a colony dont stop with the testtube. Dont forget that when taking queens from nature. They usually fade away in testtubes without beeing taken care off.
Only collect what you need, please.
Necturus

[Skippy]

...fo course

I had colony of Tetramorium caespitum with 15 queens and workers kill all 14 ,only one stay alive. They only can all start colony ,but always one is commander. Workers started killing at population 30 workers +

[Pugberto]

Interesting. I might as well release them back into the wild

[JimmyVe]

Interesting. I might as well release them back into the wild

As long as it is a species that live natural in the place you release them, (and if they do not come from another country ore state) it is not a problem to do that.