Emergency with ant queen

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Firecatto21
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Emergency with ant queen

Post: # 28513Post Firecatto21
Wed Aug 09, 2017 4:56 am

I was emptying my sunflower pot and I found am ant queen with nanitics. I have now out her in a test tube with sugar but is there anything else I need to do or am I doing something wrong. The queen is laid niger

AqdasHassaan

Re: Emergency with ant queen

Post: # 28517Post AqdasHassaan
Wed Aug 09, 2017 7:47 am

Firecatto21 wrote:
Wed Aug 09, 2017 4:56 am
I was emptying my sunflower pot and I found am ant queen with nanitics. I have now out her in a test tube with sugar but is there anything else I need to do or am I doing something wrong. The queen is laid niger
sugar or sugar water.? I'd say a regular test tube set up is the best solution in such situations. Just put her in a dark spot.

Cartil
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Re: Emergency with ant queen

Post: # 28520Post Cartil
Wed Aug 09, 2017 9:25 am

If you want to keep her and don't have any experience keeping ants, I would recommend watching the tutorials from AntsCanada on youtube.

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Re: Emergency with ant queen

Post: # 28524Post idahoantgirl
Wed Aug 09, 2017 9:48 am

Your testube has water in it stopped with cotton? and cotton blocking the exit? If so, take a drinking straw (an inch in length should do) and stuff it between the side of the tube and the exit cotton. this acts as a tunnel for the ants to travel through. place the setup in a outworld with a baby powder or fluon border. then place whatever food you plan on feeding them in the outworld, not the tube. ( feeding in the tube makes a giant mess and stresses out the colony.)
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

abaek2020
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Re: Emergency with ant queen

Post: # 28562Post abaek2020
Wed Aug 09, 2017 7:36 pm

Firecatto21 wrote:
Wed Aug 09, 2017 4:56 am
I was emptying my sunflower pot and I found am ant queen with nanitics. I have now out her in a test tube with sugar but is there anything else I need to do or am I doing something wrong. The queen is laid niger
I think you'll be fine. Lasius Niger is a pretty easy species to keep. Just remember to do research and don't disturb the queen to much GOOD LUCK :D

Firecatto21
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Re: Emergency with ant queen

Post: # 28598Post Firecatto21
Thu Aug 10, 2017 3:14 am

I put water and cotton. Now I have to wait 8-10 weeks will she lays eggs and they hatch. How often should I check on her?
Keeper of:
-Messor Barbarus x2
-Messor capitatus
-Camponotus Herculeanus
-Temnothorax
-Monomorium sp.
-Plagiolepis
-Messor barbarus unmated princess

Firecatto21
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Re: Emergency with ant queen

Post: # 28599Post Firecatto21
Thu Aug 10, 2017 3:15 am

And since she has had nanitics will she have them again?
Keeper of:
-Messor Barbarus x2
-Messor capitatus
-Camponotus Herculeanus
-Temnothorax
-Monomorium sp.
-Plagiolepis
-Messor barbarus unmated princess

AqdasHassaan

Re: Emergency with ant queen

Post: # 28602Post AqdasHassaan
Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:45 am

Firecatto21 wrote:
Thu Aug 10, 2017 3:15 am
And since she has had nanitics will she have them again?
Where are the old ones.?

AqdasHassaan

Re: Emergency with ant queen

Post: # 28603Post AqdasHassaan
Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:47 am

Firecatto21 wrote:
Thu Aug 10, 2017 3:14 am
I put water and cotton. Now I have to wait 8-10 weeks will she lays eggs and they hatch. How often should I check on her?
checking on a queen once every week is completely fine and if she feels safe and comfortable, she'll soon lay eggs again.

Firecatto21
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Re: Emergency with ant queen

Post: # 28604Post Firecatto21
Thu Aug 10, 2017 6:37 am

I dunno where are the nanitics
Keeper of:
-Messor Barbarus x2
-Messor capitatus
-Camponotus Herculeanus
-Temnothorax
-Monomorium sp.
-Plagiolepis
-Messor barbarus unmated princess

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