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Pineapple

Help!!

Post: # 25341Post Pineapple
Mon Jul 17, 2017 4:11 pm

There have tons of tetramorium flights in my area lately and the ones that land in my pool all gather on a little floating thing on he pool. When I looked closer groups of about 10 urns grouped together an underneath there were eggs! I scooped up me of the group and put them in a test tube together. Will they continue to raise the eggs together?

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idahoantgirl
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Re: Help!!

Post: # 25393Post idahoantgirl
Mon Jul 17, 2017 9:03 pm

Tetramorium will occasionally raise their brood together... and then they will kill each other off.
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

Serafine

Re: Help!!

Post: # 25421Post Serafine
Tue Jul 18, 2017 3:11 am

Tetramorium can found with multiple queens but in the end there can only be one.

Pineapple

Re: Help!!

Post: # 25464Post Pineapple
Tue Jul 18, 2017 1:59 pm

Serafine wrote:
Tue Jul 18, 2017 3:11 am
Tetramorium can found with multiple queens but in the end there can only be one.
Should i separate them?

CreeperUniverse
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Re: Help!!

Post: # 25466Post CreeperUniverse
Tue Jul 18, 2017 2:03 pm

Pineapple wrote:
Tue Jul 18, 2017 1:59 pm
Serafine wrote:
Tue Jul 18, 2017 3:11 am
Tetramorium can found with multiple queens but in the end there can only be one.
Should i separate them?
Yes definitely! I've had trash luck finding queens. I keep going on vacation and missing them :( 2 years and I've missed all the queens I've wanted. Going to 3...
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Serafine

Re: Help!!

Post: # 25472Post Serafine
Tue Jul 18, 2017 2:25 pm

Well, you can separate them or let them rambo it out. In the end all except the strongest one will die though (probably after they got the first or second batch of workers).

Pineapple

Re: Help!!

Post: # 25474Post Pineapple
Tue Jul 18, 2017 2:32 pm

looks like i have some queens to sell!

Pineapple

Re: Help!!

Post: # 26485Post Pineapple
Sun Jul 23, 2017 5:18 pm

Update:
I have separated the queens and 11/12 of them have laid eggs :D :D

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