Went Queen hunting at the wrong time only to find carcasses of queens

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merkantur
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Went Queen hunting at the wrong time only to find carcasses of queens

Post: # 12859Post merkantur
Sat Oct 01, 2016 10:24 am

So I went out to look for alates, and I found Queens in spider webs by walls everywhere. Except they're pretty much dead.
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Re: Went Queen hunting at the wrong time only to find carcasses of queens

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Sat Oct 01, 2016 5:31 pm

merkantur wrote:So I went out to look for alates, and I found Queens in spider webs by walls everywhere. Except they're pretty much dead.
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I did that once. I found a queen on a thread, dangling.
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Re: Went Queen hunting at the wrong time only to find carcasses of queens

Post: # 13038Post Canadiananter
Mon Oct 03, 2016 7:00 pm

I once found 1 crematogaster,3 lasius umbratus, 3 myrmica rubra,2 tetramorium,2 brachymyrmex depilis and 1 native myrmica in a spider webs(or maybe multiple spideas collaborating) I killed every spider in that web :twisted:

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Re: Went Queen hunting at the wrong time only to find carcasses of queens

Post: # 13054Post Canadiananter
Mon Oct 03, 2016 9:04 pm

He didn't eat them, they were just hanging there and they weren't even hollow

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Re: Went Queen hunting at the wrong time only to find carcasses of queens

Post: # 13098Post Serafine
Tue Oct 04, 2016 10:44 am

You know, the net is the spider version of a fridge...
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