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130 days no workers
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 11:53 pm
by RvBVakama
I caught two queen ants back during the end of june, this means they've been just chilling for 130 days-ish in a couple tupperware containers in the dark with food water and honey. They still seem livley, but I am wondering when might want to have their first workers. Could it be that when I caught them they were at prime time but I scared them and now they won't until next year. Or is it because they dont have any weather cues to go on?
PS. I believe they are meat ants.
Re: 130 days no workers
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2023 7:35 am
by antperson24
RvBVakama wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 11:53 pm
I caught two queen ants back during the end of june, this means they've been just chilling for 130 days-ish in a couple tupperware containers in the dark with food water and honey. They still seem livley, but I am wondering when might want to have their first workers. Could it be that when I caught them they were at prime time but I scared them and now they won't until next year. Or is it because they dont have any weather cues to go on?
PS. I believe they are meat ants.
Well, they are
Camponotus, so that makes them slow growers, but this seems really slow. Try feeding them a small cricket leg.