How scattered do the brood have to be for a high chance of the queen being infertile?

Discussions about the care and keeping of ants

Moderator: ooper01

SYUTEO
Posts: 1395
Joined: Thu Aug 29, 2019 8:58 am
Location: Malaysia

Re: How scattered do the brood have to be for a high chance of the queen being infertile?

Post: # 84520Post SYUTEO
Wed Oct 27, 2021 10:02 pm

antnest8 wrote:
Wed Oct 27, 2021 12:06 pm
It's rough having only one nanitic, but possible
My Colobopsis leonardi queen only had 1 nanitic and the second generation had 6 but later on the colony kept eating their eggs and eventually the colony was killed by wild Pharaoh ants.

User avatar
AntsAntsAnts
Posts: 365
Joined: Thu Sep 02, 2021 1:10 am
Location: Australia

Re: How scattered do the brood have to be for a high chance of the queen being infertile?

Post: # 84525Post AntsAntsAnts
Thu Oct 28, 2021 4:59 am

Well she did lay more eggs.
keeping:
all my queens died :(
got a sugar ant colony started :)

User avatar
AntsAntsAnts
Posts: 365
Joined: Thu Sep 02, 2021 1:10 am
Location: Australia

Re: How scattered do the brood have to be for a high chance of the queen being infertile?

Post: # 84526Post AntsAntsAnts
Thu Oct 28, 2021 5:00 am

Anyways, thank you.
keeping:
all my queens died :(
got a sugar ant colony started :)

Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 13 guests