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[Messorus]

Hello, all. I have a young colony of this beautiful camponotus breed, from Malta island. There are 7 workers, in the colony, at the moment, and they have spring laraves... But I don´t know, what is it, like ant breed. Will somebod know it???

[mpir]

Welcom to forum.

Queen has wings! You might have a problem. Usually this means that the queen is not mated and will not produce workers. Only drones.

And usually only by photo it is imposible to determin exact species.

Happy ant-keeping anyway

[Messorus]

Yes, I was decided to kill her in the alcohol, but than I saw egg! It is funny, I thought, than first workers will be tasting to take them off, and yes, they was doing it. But it´s now all right, the colony is very good.

[JimmyVe]

Hi Messorus and welcome,

A few questions if i may. Did you capture the queens yourself ? ore buy/trade it with someone. Like mpir said, queens with wings ore more likely not to start a colony, but this one already has workers. So are the workers produced by this queen ore not...

And if it is possible post some better pictures.

Greetings

[Skippy]

yes it is possible ... I also had this queen in home ,then it came to Messorus ... she layed some eggs and I also tought she is not fertiled ,but he wrote me then ,she has cocoons ...

...it is true no more

[sithmaster676]

some queens dont remove there wings for some reason although they are fertilized so there is a slime chance that your queen may be fertile but more likely not, and if the queen does keep her wings then the workers usually chew them off.
Sithmaster676

[Messorus]

Jimy: Yes, I captured her myself, it was 16th of June, about 20 o´clock on Malta island.... Workers are her, I will add here a photo of her and cocons...
Sithmaster676:I first thought, than she isn´t fertile, but some days after, Skippy saw her first egg! Other queens of this campo wasn´t fertile and have no eggs...

[JimmyVe]

If the workers are from this queen she is fertilized.

Okay post some pictures, and if possible better pictures of the queen and workers to.

[Skippy]

This I took on camera ,when I received ants... looks like smaller barbaricus ,but more of light color

[Messorus]

I will make some fotos of workers, and give it here, but int the evening... Skippy, thank you from beautiful foto

[JimmyVe]

In deed, looks a bit like barbaricus but i'm not sure about that. Somebody ?