Dark Myrmica ants

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KimNorway
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Dark Myrmica ants

Post: # 47001Post KimNorway
Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:44 am

Hello

I have tried to capture some Queens of dark myrmica who had a flight yesterday, and might have 1 or 2, but have some questions.
I need to observe them a bit, feed some sugar water, and see if I actually have queens, might be males...
are all Myrmica semi-claustral, or both? how do I know if mine is semi-claustral or claustral if I do not know what I got?

Is there some "generic" receipe for how to treat Myrmica?

KimNorway
Posts: 16
Joined: Thu Aug 09, 2018 3:45 am
Location: Norway

Re: Dark Myrmica ants

Post: # 47005Post KimNorway
Thu Aug 09, 2018 7:22 am

I just got dead male alates...
Anyone got any tricks for looking for Myrmica ant Queens, since they seem to have flights now? My error was to assume the big swarm I saw was a mix of both male and female, seems the entire swarm flying and gathered on ground was mostly males.

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