AntsCanada wrote:We have this video. Does it help?Durant wrote:Thx Mikey!!! Plz do one on Solenopsis!!!
I think a video documenting polygny in captivity would be quite intresting, personally.
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AntsCanada wrote:We have this video. Does it help?Durant wrote:Thx Mikey!!! Plz do one on Solenopsis!!!
So far, the only queen I've managed to find in my area is a Solenopsis molesta. But I'm fairly excited, as they're polygynous! So I'm definitely going to be on the lookout for more. (But I'm not holding my breath… It took weeks of searching for any alates at all just to find this one, so I'm afraid I'm at the tail end of their mating season.)nightxwolf88 wrote:I happen to have quite a fascination with the polygynous species too .
It depends on the species. Like tapinoma melanocephalum do not have flights so some queens bud off together with some workers to make a new colony. They can also lay more queens for the colony to grow. In the case of solenopsis molesta they have flights as you said, so I'm pretty sure newly mated queens found a colony together. I did read in places that they will sometimes accept other new queens into existing colonies. I have tried this with my wild caught 10 queen colony but the workers quickly dispatched them and they were discarded into their graveyard.JacobSyndeo wrote:So far, the only queen I've managed to find in my area is a Solenopsis molesta. But I'm fairly excited, as they're polygynous! So I'm definitely going to be on the lookout for more. (But I'm not holding my breath… It took weeks of searching for any alates at all just to find this one, so I'm afraid I'm at the tail end of their mating season.)nightxwolf88 wrote:I happen to have quite a fascination with the polygynous species too .
Now I wonder… How do polygynous species end up getting more queens? Do newly-mated queens just decide to join an existing colony? If I were to find another queen sometime in the future, would I be able to just add her to my colony? (Not something I'd want to just experiment with, as for all I know, the workers may attack her!)
AntsCanada wrote:Greetings ant lovers,
I have been busy touring the US and will continue going around for the next few weeks, filming ant videos a long the way! This week's video explores the ant diversity of New York City.
We offered New Yorkers $100 USD if they could correctly guess how many species of ants live in the city. Check out what happened!
The answer to the trivia question is tapinoma sessile. when squished, they smell like blue cheese.AntsCanada wrote:Greetings ant lovers,
I have been busy touring the US and will continue going around for the next few weeks, filming ant videos a long the way! This week's video explores the ant diversity of New York City.
We offered New Yorkers $100 USD if they could correctly guess how many species of ants live in the city. Check out what happened!
He told us to answer it in the comments section. That's what I'm doing!Durant wrote:U r a freaking spoiler!!!idahoantgirl wrote:The answer to the trivia question is tapinoma sessile. when squished, they smell like blue cheese.AntsCanada wrote:Greetings ant lovers,
I have been busy touring the US and will continue going around for the next few weeks, filming ant videos a long the way! This week's video explores the ant diversity of New York City.
We offered New Yorkers $100 USD if they could correctly guess how many species of ants live in the city. Check out what happened!
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