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About 3 weeks ago, I wrote a post here on how all of my Carpenter ant workers passed, and the queen was alone with her brood. Now, it seems she ate her brood, except for 1 egg. She is protecting it, but I am worried now that she may just do nothing until she dies. Is there any hope?? If anyone has a...

Hello, Basically, a terrible thing happened (long story) and all of the workers (9 of them) died in my Camponotus colony. The queen is okay. Im just wondering, is she going to keep trying to lay eggs and will she take care of them? Or has she entered some phase where she is expecting her workers to ...

Hello everyone, This topic of vaseline as a barrier has been mentioned before, but none mentioned the issue I am having. I have a fairly large (500+ workers) tetramorium colony living in a terarrium. I use vaseline as the barrier. Ive been finding, however, many dead ants in the vaseline. What the i...

are these guys social parasites or can they start a colony on their own?

Is this one that is a social parasite or can start a colony on its own?

Any idea which species this queen is?


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Hello, i had asked earlier in the week if formica ants are typically fully claustral, and got told they were. I then placed the queen into a test tube about 3 days ago and decided to check on her. All she has done so far is pull at the cotton. Is there a chance she is of the formica species that is ...

In that case, just put her into a test tube set up and into the drawer for a week or two and see what happens?

yeah the queen i just caught has an injured back leg, but she moves just fine. hopefully it doesnt prevent the founding of a colony!

I just caught a formica queen, and I have a few questions.
1) are the semi or fully claustral?
2)is one queen enough to start a colony?
Thank you!!