ANTSTORE World of Ants

[ant dude]

yeah right steve i belive u lol

u normally recive majors when u order Camponotus ligniperda from antstore, as my other colony where the queen was dead when i recived the package i recived 2-3 majors steve

[miszt]

that is strange, can only assume that Antstore add pupa from other colonies to the queens

[JimmyVe]

hm... Don't think Antstore would add pupa to a colony to create majors in it. I never received a colony that small with majors. Are you sure it's a major, on the pictures you post i can not see if it is one ore not.

[miszt]

there is one large worker, sitting on the cotton wool above the queen in the last pic, looks to big to be a minor, espcially for 1st gen workers, who are smaller than minors anyway

[ant dude]

well i'm sure it is a major it has a large shape head and that.......hm i'll try to get some more pics for u guys, then so we can have a better look:grin: but i have lost my phone somwhere round my house lol, i'm gonna try and find it then.......

[ant dude]

anothere pic of the colony

[ant dude]

and again

[ant dude]

best pics i could get

hope this helps....its just so gotta be a major tho

[miszt]

definitly a major, head is to big to be a minor, all of those ants infact are to large to be first generation, unless antstore has some kind of special food to induce queens to lay normal eggs for first gen, I guess its possible, with the right level of protiens and other nutriants, I think other chemicals are involved aswell

[ant dude]

thanks miszt i knew when i saw the head an that, it must have been a major.....

[JimmyVe]

In deed, looks like a major. This is strange, for such a young colony. Did you already contacted Antstore ? You could mail them and ask about it.

@ Ant dude: you can post more pictures in one message (up to

[ant dude]

ok will do l8ter, and i'll let u know

how is that done lol???

[JimmyVe]

how is that done lol???

If you post a new message you can add the picture, and than another and another... try it out.

[kashmir79]

majors have same size heads of the queen, thats the big clue, or sometimes bigger !

[Phasmid]

Talking about majors from small colonies, my C.ligniperda colony, of seven workers, produced a male . I also got this from antstore.