Are unrelated male ants attracted to other queens?
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Are unrelated male ants attracted to other queens?
I found my queen ant swarmed with male alates of a different species outside its test tube. I am not sure if they are capable of mating with the queen and if they can even mate with a queen that has already begun egg-laying.
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Re: Are unrelated male ants attracted to other queens?
I think the males mistaken your queen ant to their own species of queen ant maybe your queen is their species (we would never know)
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Re: Are unrelated male ants attracted to other queens?
Are you certain they were another species? Male alates are often much different than their female counter-parts, usually different sizes and sometimes different colors as well.AntsAntsAnts wrote: ↑Sat Oct 09, 2021 1:44 amI found my queen ant swarmed with male alates of a different species outside its test tube. I am not sure if they are capable of mating with the queen and if they can even mate with a queen that has already begun egg-laying.
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Re: Are unrelated male ants attracted to other queens?
Also...AntsAntsAnts wrote: ↑Sat Oct 09, 2021 1:44 amI found my queen ant swarmed with male alates of a different species outside its test tube. I am not sure if they are capable of mating with the queen and if they can even mate with a queen that has already begun egg-laying.
Although the queen may copulate with several males during her brief mating period, she never mates again.*
*citation : "Ants Mating, Reproduction, And Life Span." Science Jrank, science.jrank.org/pages/447/Ants-Mating-reproduction-life-span.html.
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Re: Are unrelated male ants attracted to other queens?
They eventually just died from age I guess but some did get in the test tube but the queen kind of ate them...
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Re: Are unrelated male ants attracted to other queens?
how did the male get in the test tube???? Isn't there he cotton to stop the queen from escaping And the males do not die from old age but after mating
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