Emergency with ant queen
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Emergency with ant queen
I was emptying my sunflower pot and I found am ant queen with nanitics. I have now out her in a test tube with sugar but is there anything else I need to do or am I doing something wrong. The queen is laid niger
Re: Emergency with ant queen
sugar or sugar water.? I'd say a regular test tube set up is the best solution in such situations. Just put her in a dark spot.Firecatto21 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 09, 2017 4:56 amI was emptying my sunflower pot and I found am ant queen with nanitics. I have now out her in a test tube with sugar but is there anything else I need to do or am I doing something wrong. The queen is laid niger
Re: Emergency with ant queen
If you want to keep her and don't have any experience keeping ants, I would recommend watching the tutorials from AntsCanada on youtube.
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Re: Emergency with ant queen
Your testube has water in it stopped with cotton? and cotton blocking the exit? If so, take a drinking straw (an inch in length should do) and stuff it between the side of the tube and the exit cotton. this acts as a tunnel for the ants to travel through. place the setup in a outworld with a baby powder or fluon border. then place whatever food you plan on feeding them in the outworld, not the tube. ( feeding in the tube makes a giant mess and stresses out the colony.)
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
Re: Emergency with ant queen
I think you'll be fine. Lasius Niger is a pretty easy species to keep. Just remember to do research and don't disturb the queen to much GOOD LUCKFirecatto21 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 09, 2017 4:56 amI was emptying my sunflower pot and I found am ant queen with nanitics. I have now out her in a test tube with sugar but is there anything else I need to do or am I doing something wrong. The queen is laid niger
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Re: Emergency with ant queen
I put water and cotton. Now I have to wait 8-10 weeks will she lays eggs and they hatch. How often should I check on her?
Keeper of:
-Messor Barbarus x2
-Messor capitatus
-Camponotus Herculeanus
-Temnothorax
-Monomorium sp.
-Plagiolepis
-Messor barbarus unmated princess
-Messor Barbarus x2
-Messor capitatus
-Camponotus Herculeanus
-Temnothorax
-Monomorium sp.
-Plagiolepis
-Messor barbarus unmated princess
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Re: Emergency with ant queen
And since she has had nanitics will she have them again?
Keeper of:
-Messor Barbarus x2
-Messor capitatus
-Camponotus Herculeanus
-Temnothorax
-Monomorium sp.
-Plagiolepis
-Messor barbarus unmated princess
-Messor Barbarus x2
-Messor capitatus
-Camponotus Herculeanus
-Temnothorax
-Monomorium sp.
-Plagiolepis
-Messor barbarus unmated princess
Re: Emergency with ant queen
Where are the old ones.?Firecatto21 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2017 3:15 amAnd since she has had nanitics will she have them again?
Re: Emergency with ant queen
checking on a queen once every week is completely fine and if she feels safe and comfortable, she'll soon lay eggs again.Firecatto21 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2017 3:14 amI put water and cotton. Now I have to wait 8-10 weeks will she lays eggs and they hatch. How often should I check on her?
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Re: Emergency with ant queen
I dunno where are the nanitics
Keeper of:
-Messor Barbarus x2
-Messor capitatus
-Camponotus Herculeanus
-Temnothorax
-Monomorium sp.
-Plagiolepis
-Messor barbarus unmated princess
-Messor Barbarus x2
-Messor capitatus
-Camponotus Herculeanus
-Temnothorax
-Monomorium sp.
-Plagiolepis
-Messor barbarus unmated princess
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