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AntsRomania1999
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Myrmica queen

Post: # 31722Post AntsRomania1999
Sat Sep 23, 2017 2:57 pm

Hello guys !
I have tried several times to raise a colony with myrmica queen
Always when I put the tube with the queen in the outworld queen, a few hours left the tube and did not return to test tube
In a few days finding the dead queen :|
The tube was wrapped in aluminum foil and at the entrance of the tube there was cotton with a hole in it
Do you have any advice or any idea how to solve that problem? :?:
My colonies :
lasius niger x3
formica cunicularia
tetramorium sp x2
myrmica sp (founding)

My dream species -- Polyergus rufescens

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Batspiderfish
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Re: Myrmica queen

Post: # 31738Post Batspiderfish
Sat Sep 23, 2017 9:11 pm

Some Myrmica are social parasites, but maybe she needs to spend a little bit of time in the tube so that she identifies it as her nesting chamber. I haven't had this problem with my Myrmica, so maybe it has something to do with the outworld?
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AntsRomania1999
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Joined: Wed Jul 05, 2017 5:05 pm
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Re: Myrmica queen

Post: # 31753Post AntsRomania1999
Sun Sep 24, 2017 1:56 am

The ''outworld'' is a simple plastic container
My colonies :
lasius niger x3
formica cunicularia
tetramorium sp x2
myrmica sp (founding)

My dream species -- Polyergus rufescens

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