Winter Queen Hunting?
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Winter Queen Hunting?
I remember Reading something on another Site about someone who would put a bottle into the side of an ant hill with the inside filled with Honey or Syrup during the winter and if left there long enough, eventually a queen would be moved into the bottle, and this makes for an effective means of Queen Hunting during the winter. Is there any grounds to this, or where they making it up?
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Re: Winter Queen Hunting?
The queens don't move out of their chambers during winter. Sometimes they fall into a sleep. Workers also don't go outside. I don't think it would work.CratosAnts wrote: ↑Sat Dec 23, 2017 11:20 pmI remember Reading something on another Site about someone who would put a bottle into the side of an ant hill with the inside filled with Honey or Syrup during the winter and if left there long enough, eventually a queen would be moved into the bottle, and this makes for an effective means of Queen Hunting during the winter. Is there any grounds to this, or where they making it up?
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: Winter Queen Hunting?
There’s one speacies of Queens that don’t hibernate during the winter
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Re: Winter Queen Hunting?
I don't think that would work.
Re: Winter Queen Hunting?
Yeah my bet is that will not work, your best hope is catching a Prenolepis imparius which fly pretty early.
With all the things ants can do, you wonder, who rules the planet
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Camponotus Pennsylvanicus
Pheidole sp.
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Camponotus Pennsylvanicus
Pheidole sp.
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