Please help me out.
I am going to catch a queen this year and I want to know if they can have more than one queen.
Can tetramoriam ants have more then one queen?
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Re: Can tetramoriam ants have more then one queen?
So, the simple answer is no. They will decapitate each other. I tried this with tetramorium, one 2 queen colony and one 4 queen colony. over a few days, one queen had decapitated the other three in the four queen colony. The two queen colon raised their brood together for several weeks, then their test tube flooded and I, being a beginner, assumed they were dead and threw them out. (They were alive. It's strangely hard to drown ants.) So, While I'm not exactly certain that they would have fought and killed each other later, this is most likely the case. Several species will raise brood together for a while, but at some point in the founding stage, they kill each other off unless it is a polygynous species.AntsManitobacanada wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2017 7:02 pmPlease help me out.
I am going to catch a queen this year and I want to know if they can have more than one queen.
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, Tapinoma Sessile
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, Tapinoma Sessile
Re: Can tetramoriam ants have more then one queen?
Many Tetramorium species can found in pleometrosis but will, over the time of a few months, sort out all queens but the strongest. There are a few polygynous Tetramorium species from Asia though.
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Re: Can tetramoriam ants have more then one queen?
One of the issues is that Tetramorium cf. caespitum is actually a species complex, and you have no way of knowing if two queens are the same species without genetic testing.
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Re: Can tetramoriam ants have more then one queen?
Wow, you learn something new everyday. Didn't know that....Batspiderfish wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2017 10:53 amOne of the issues is that Tetramorium cf. caespitum is actually a species complex, and you have no way of knowing if two queens are the same species without genetic testing.
Keeping:
Camponotus subbarbatus
Formica pallidefulva x2
Formica subsericea x4
Lasius sp
Tetramorium immigrans x2
Dorymyrmex bureni
Founding:
Formica pallidefulva
Unknown sp x2
Camponotus subbarbatus
Formica pallidefulva x2
Formica subsericea x4
Lasius sp
Tetramorium immigrans x2
Dorymyrmex bureni
Founding:
Formica pallidefulva
Unknown sp x2
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