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And also another question does the male have to be found and introduced to the new colony during spring (R Metallica’s Nuptials)

Forgot to add the queen o lit died recently past week

I caught the Queen (who died) in September last year

So it’s just as easy as introducing a male or two into the out world? That’s easy enough if anyone else knows about the introducing a queen thing would be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance

Wow that’s funny, I know I’m almost two years late to this conversation but the July of 2018 I caught about 3 or 4 iridomyrmex queens (all were fertile) which is odd considering it’s in the middle of winter ‍♂️

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Hello welcome to the community. I can safely say that isn’t a queen however I’m not from America so I wouldn’t be able to tell you what Genus is, I would’ve said maybe a Camponotus but I couldn’t say for sure as the images were a little blurry. If you do find out the Species, and it does turn out to...

So hello AC forum um so recently one of my older colonies queen of Rhytidoponera Metallica passed away suddenly. How ever to keep them going until I come up with a solution I have brood boosted them. So after doing a little research online I found that these ants are known to have gamergates, now is...

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Hello AC I recently lost my Queen to my Green HeadedAnt Colony (rhytidoponera Metalica) how ever from what ive heard these Species are both Polygynous, and gamergates. is there a way i can save my colony? Yes there are maybe 7 workers left.