I have a few questions.
Camponautus sp.
How long egg to hatch?
How long until hatch once they conoon?
Lasuis Niger
How long egg to hatch?
Thanks for your time
Egg to hatch questions...
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Re: Egg to hatch questions...
Here is a video Mikey Bustos made about carpenter ants. it talks about camponotus's founding stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUCoajYwo8s
I have kept Lasius Neoniger, and it takes about a month for eggs to hatch. Maybe a bit more.
Proverbs 6:6-8
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
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Serafine
Re: Egg to hatch questions...
My Camponotus are about:
2-4 weeks eggs
2-4 weeks larvae
3-4 weeks pupae
summing up as 2-3 months for egg to worker.
Since my Camponotus are Mediterraneans high temperatures (28-30°C) speeds up their development tremendously.
Lasius niger is about:
1-2 weeks eggs
1-2 weeks larvae
1-2 weeks pupa
summing up as 4-6 weeks from eggs to worker.
Since my Lasius are from a temperate region heating above 25°C isn't really required and potentially not that good for the larvae.
Usually the larval stage is the shortest and the pupa stage the longest.
In a nest with a heat gradient the ants will keep the pupae at the warmest spots and the larvae at the slightly colder spots with more humidity.
Also note that ants do chemically communicate with their eggs by essentially vomiting on them, that way they can tell the eggs to speed up or slow down. Camponotus for example hibernate with larvae (not with eggs or pupae), so when in autumn the larvae remain tiny and do not grow any more you'll know it's time for hibernation. Also ants usually do not grow all available eggs at once, most of the time they will grow about half of the eggs to larvae and once these larvae pupate, the rest of the eggs is ready to go larvae (this is mostly true for young colonies).
And sometimes queens lay a portion of dud eggs that are meant to be eaten (they are essentially external storage containers), in some exotic species it's even the workers laying these dud eggs to feed the larvae.
2-4 weeks eggs
2-4 weeks larvae
3-4 weeks pupae
summing up as 2-3 months for egg to worker.
Since my Camponotus are Mediterraneans high temperatures (28-30°C) speeds up their development tremendously.
Lasius niger is about:
1-2 weeks eggs
1-2 weeks larvae
1-2 weeks pupa
summing up as 4-6 weeks from eggs to worker.
Since my Lasius are from a temperate region heating above 25°C isn't really required and potentially not that good for the larvae.
Usually the larval stage is the shortest and the pupa stage the longest.
In a nest with a heat gradient the ants will keep the pupae at the warmest spots and the larvae at the slightly colder spots with more humidity.
Also note that ants do chemically communicate with their eggs by essentially vomiting on them, that way they can tell the eggs to speed up or slow down. Camponotus for example hibernate with larvae (not with eggs or pupae), so when in autumn the larvae remain tiny and do not grow any more you'll know it's time for hibernation. Also ants usually do not grow all available eggs at once, most of the time they will grow about half of the eggs to larvae and once these larvae pupate, the rest of the eggs is ready to go larvae (this is mostly true for young colonies).
And sometimes queens lay a portion of dud eggs that are meant to be eaten (they are essentially external storage containers), in some exotic species it's even the workers laying these dud eggs to feed the larvae.
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