Breeding ants
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Breeding ants
Hi, I'm new to antfarming, but is it possible that if you have two queens from different colonies that when they produce alates that you can take those alates and mate them and then sell those possibly for the GAN project?
Keeper of:
x3 Tetramorium caespitum queens; (<10 workers and brood)
x1 Pogonomyrmex barbatus
x1 Formica sp. single queen; (1 nanitec, some brood)
x1 Formica sp. quad queen; (founding)
x1 Temnothorax sp. colony
x3 Tetramorium caespitum queens; (<10 workers and brood)
x1 Pogonomyrmex barbatus
x1 Formica sp. single queen; (1 nanitec, some brood)
x1 Formica sp. quad queen; (founding)
x1 Temnothorax sp. colony
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jwatson16202
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Re: Breeding ants
It's unlikely that ants in captivity will receive environmental cues for nuptial flights
Keeper of:
2 x Lasius niger colonies (1 founding)
1 x Myrmica rubra colony
1 x Lasius flavus (fouding)
2 x Lasius niger colonies (1 founding)
1 x Myrmica rubra colony
1 x Lasius flavus (fouding)
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jwatson16202
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Re: Breeding ants
Also ants mate in flight, how are you likely to contain them?
Keeper of:
2 x Lasius niger colonies (1 founding)
1 x Myrmica rubra colony
1 x Lasius flavus (fouding)
2 x Lasius niger colonies (1 founding)
1 x Myrmica rubra colony
1 x Lasius flavus (fouding)
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idahoantgirl
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Re: Breeding ants
Short answer, no. Ants often fly a ways away from the nest to mate.
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, Lasius Neoniger
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, Lasius Neoniger
Re: Breeding ants
Artificial insemination of ants is possible but requires precise tools to induce mating.
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Selliing:
Selliing:
Re: Breeding ants
What if you gave the normal environmental ques(as much as possible) like watering the formicarium to simulate rain? Then you closed the windows and isolated the ants to a room? I'd this a possibility?
Keeper of:
x3 Tetramorium caespitum queens; (<10 workers and brood)
x1 Pogonomyrmex barbatus
x1 Formica sp. single queen; (1 nanitec, some brood)
x1 Formica sp. quad queen; (founding)
x1 Temnothorax sp. colony
x3 Tetramorium caespitum queens; (<10 workers and brood)
x1 Pogonomyrmex barbatus
x1 Formica sp. single queen; (1 nanitec, some brood)
x1 Formica sp. quad queen; (founding)
x1 Temnothorax sp. colony
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jwatson16202
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- Joined: Fri Oct 28, 2016 4:56 pm
- Location: Braintree
Re: Breeding ants
Still very unlikely
It's not just rainfall, there's temperature, humidity, some suggestions of pheromonal cues from neighbouring colonies
It's not just rainfall, there's temperature, humidity, some suggestions of pheromonal cues from neighbouring colonies
Keeper of:
2 x Lasius niger colonies (1 founding)
1 x Myrmica rubra colony
1 x Lasius flavus (fouding)
2 x Lasius niger colonies (1 founding)
1 x Myrmica rubra colony
1 x Lasius flavus (fouding)
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