Small formica cunicularia colony

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AntsRomania1999
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Small formica cunicularia colony

Post: # 31991Post AntsRomania1999
Mon Oct 02, 2017 3:19 pm

Hello guys!
A week ago, I moved forcefully a colony of eight-worker formica cunicularia into a new test tube
They have rarely eaten since then and we have found a dead worker today.
Do you have any advice what can I do?
My colonies :
lasius niger x3
formica cunicularia
tetramorium sp x2
myrmica sp (founding)

My dream species -- Polyergus rufescens

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Re: Small formica cunicularia colony

Post: # 32240Post idahoantgirl
Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:50 pm

AntsRomania1999 wrote:
Mon Oct 02, 2017 3:19 pm
Hello guys!
A week ago, I moved forcefully a colony of eight-worker formica cunicularia into a new test tube
They have rarely eaten since then and we have found a dead worker today.
Do you have any advice what can I do?
Let them relax, dont check on them often, and provide food in an outworld, not the tube. ( I assume you have the drinking straw setup with your test tube in an outworld?)
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.

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