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Queen with broken antennae

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Fri Jan 13, 2023 6:57 pm

I have three polyrhachis vermiculosa queens and one has a perfectly working antennae but the other one is shorter and doesn't move. That queen is also the only one that strays away from the other two although they do not attack each other. However, they do sometimes go on top of each other (maybe to show superiority) and they like to go on top of the broken antennae queen more. The broken antennae happened before I put the queen in the test tube. Will she be ok?
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Re: Queen with broken antennae

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Fri Jan 13, 2023 7:20 pm

Ants need their antennae to smell, without them she can't smell food and she can't smell what the other ants are talking about, so she's like disabled. She might not be able to survive for long unless she learns a way of detecting food and water without her sense of smell or she learns another way to communicate with the other queens.

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Re: Queen with broken antennae

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Fri Jan 13, 2023 7:23 pm

SYUTEO wrote:
Fri Jan 13, 2023 7:20 pm
Ants need their antennae to smell, without them she can't smell food and she can't smell what the other ants are talking about, so she's like disabled. She might not be able to survive for long unless she learns a way of detecting food and water without her sense of smell or she learns another way to communicate with the other queens.
she's in quite a small test tube and she just ate some jelly so yeah.
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all my queens died :(
got a sugar ant colony started :)

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Re: Queen with broken antennae

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Sun Jan 15, 2023 3:59 am

SYUTEO wrote:
Fri Jan 13, 2023 7:20 pm
Ants need their antennae to smell, without them she can't smell food and she can't smell what the other ants are talking about, so she's like disabled. She might not be able to survive for long unless she learns a way of detecting food and water without her sense of smell or she learns another way to communicate with the other queens.
Actually she started to die so I put her in the garden. Sad

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Re: Queen with broken antennae

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Sun Jan 15, 2023 7:49 am

Antsantsantsaltacc wrote:
Sun Jan 15, 2023 3:59 am
SYUTEO wrote:
Fri Jan 13, 2023 7:20 pm
Ants need their antennae to smell, without them she can't smell food and she can't smell what the other ants are talking about, so she's like disabled. She might not be able to survive for long unless she learns a way of detecting food and water without her sense of smell or she learns another way to communicate with the other queens.
Actually she started to die so I put her in the garden. Sad
Yeah, sad, I was hoping she would recover. :( Hope you find another one.

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Re: Queen with broken antennae

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Sun Jan 15, 2023 11:30 pm

SYUTEO wrote:
Sun Jan 15, 2023 7:49 am
Antsantsantsaltacc wrote:
Sun Jan 15, 2023 3:59 am
SYUTEO wrote:
Fri Jan 13, 2023 7:20 pm
Ants need their antennae to smell, without them she can't smell food and she can't smell what the other ants are talking about, so she's like disabled. She might not be able to survive for long unless she learns a way of detecting food and water without her sense of smell or she learns another way to communicate with the other queens.
Actually she started to die so I put her in the garden. Sad
Yeah, sad, I was hoping she would recover. :( Hope you find another one.
there are two more of them in the same test tube. trying to find more.
keeping:
all my queens died :(
got a sugar ant colony started :)

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