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Hey I'm sure this has been asked many times, but does anyone have a link to a study on whether it's beneficial at all to feed fully claustral queens during the founding process?

From all my research, it seems like more ant keepers feed them than don't, but I can't find a log of where someone took like 60 queens, fed 30 and fasted 30, and logged the results.

My immediate thought is the stress of disturbing the founding chamber all the time to feed would cause a longer founding process anyways, which would negate the benefit of prolonging queen life by providing energy sources.

Thoughts?

When the Nanitics have emerged, you should feed them ( with honey or so, but that u supposedly already knew) but why feed it when it is fully chlusteral, feed it a TINY bit of honey (I did) so they gain a liiiitle bit of energy at the start, but then I am just leaving them....

I guess this did not help, but I said my "thoughts" and this post seemed lonely so I posted! have a nice one m8

So you feed once at the start and then leave them alone until nanitics? Thanks for the input!

I have 4 fully claustral queens (previously 5 but one died) and I haven't fed any of them. 3 of them currently have cocoons/pupa and seem to be doing well so I just recommend feeding only if you think it's needed