Hello everyone,
I just want to ask if anyone here know whether or not Lasius niger and Lasius Alienus are polygamous. Because I have several queens and would like to try merging them peacefully, or well, as peacefully as possible, because even in Mikey bustos videos there are minor conflicts when merging.
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Super Colony Lasius niger/Alienus
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Re: Super Colony Lasius niger/Alienus
merging colonies is tricky always. I would never merge my colonies even if I have 30 polygynous queens of same specie.
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Re: Super Colony Lasius niger/Alienus
It's impossible to know which queens of both species are. Some queens have the polygynous gene and others don't. They aren't a true polygynous species like Prenolepis imparis, whose queens mostly have the gene. For alienus and niger its really random and it's pretty much luck of the draw. So I wouldn't combine them.
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