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[Santa Claus]

Today I looked on the fungus through magnifier and I found 1st egg. Then I make a photo. When opened this pic on PC I was surprised It seems that there are 4 eggs on the fungus...
How many eggs you see?

[JimmyVe]

Workers are alone, they carrying for reserve piece of fungus. I'm affraid to add them to queen because they can kill her.

I added my queen directly to the fungus with workers (but there where only about 10 workers) and they accepted here. Maybe like Skippy said, put a few workers with her, wouldn't harm the fungus, they could help building it for the queen, eggs, larva and new workers.

If i'm not mistaken, i see 3 maybe 4 eggs, and 3 larva ? not ?

[Santa Claus]

I put ony tiny little worker to queen. In 5 minutes she killed him - she crushed his abdomen

[Skippy]

,... it depends also on queen´s character , I studying it with camponotus vagus , some queens kill workers and some no . Also it depends on actual stress-rate of queen. When is queen stressed or prepared on dangerous , she´ll kill. Whe is she ok and worker slowly will come there and try make contact with her slowly , it could be ok

Sorry bad EN

Skippy

[JimmyVe]

Sorry to hear that Santa Claus, you can try it one more time ore just hope the eggs will hatch soon so you have new workers to take care of the fungus and queen.

[Skippy]

My Acromyrmex photos

[JimmyVe]

Very nice Skippy (is that one you had from me ?)

[Beffie]

@ Santa Claus: How is it with your queen. Do you have any workers?

[Santa Claus]

There are about 10 workers They built big fungus garden - about 1.5cm.
You can find all progress here: Hyperlinks sind nur für registrierte Nutzer sichtbar - sorry russian language. (you can use Hyperlinks sind nur für registrierte Nutzer sichtbar)

[JimmyVe]

Very nice Santa Claus (long time not seen )

Looks like they are doing fine. Do you keep them only in a test tube ?

[Santa Claus]

Thanks JimmyVe!
I'm going to build glass box for fungus and then try to resettle ants.

[JimmyVe]

Nice, post some pictures when you setup is finished, good luck.

[miszt]

Good to hear they are doing well

[Santa Claus]

There are about 25 workers at this moment. Ants can cut whole leaf during only hour.

[JimmyVe]

Seems like they are doing just fine. Great job ! (nice picture to)