Journal on brood boosting a different species to the other

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Journal on brood boosting a different species to the other

Post: # 75652Post bugging3out
Fri Mar 05, 2021 11:28 am

So on feb 25th i got 2 queen ants in the mail. Their species is camponotus vicinus. They arrived in separate test tubes with their own eggs. I was very exited because i know one day they will be a massive thriving empire. I didn't want to wait so long for them to care for the eggs, wait for the larvae to hatch, then she has to feed the larvae, then i have to wait for the larvae to pupate, then i have to wait for the pupa to hatch, then i have to wait for the workers to be fully adults so they are not squishy and kinda gross looking. Plus they are carpenter ants and they take way longer for their babies to develop. So i gave one of the queens 4 mature larvae and 2 pupae from a different colony. The colony was not the same species as the lonely queen. I was mixing 6 babies from a different colony into this queen ants test tube. They were in the same genus tho. The colony i was extracting babies from was
camponotus flordanuis and the queen ant i was giving the babies to was camponotus vicinus. The queen ant grabbed the babies and actually accepted the pupae and the larvae. She started cleaning them and feeding the larvae.
This one was specimen 1. Specimen 2 rejected a pupae from the camponotus flordanuis colony. It surprised me to see that specimen 1 would accept babies from another colony. Not sure why specimen 2 did not accept any babies at all from a different colony. They both had the same amount of eggs and they both had young eggs. They had no larvae before I gave specimen 1 larvae and pupae.
So I will be keeping everyone on this forum updated on this colony every day.
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Post: # 75655Post bugging3out
Fri Mar 05, 2021 12:29 pm

Day 1
Queen takes care of brood.
The queen ant has been busy caring for the new babies of a different species.
So far she has 4 pupae and 1 larvae of the different species.
And she has 1 larvae of her species and 4 eggs of her species too.

Here is the photos: https://docs.google.com/document/d/160FGOYYnDHwqVCOS3CyRkXNi-plzFiIKLt071QU0Xbc/edit

Will update on day 2.
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Re: Journal on brood boosting a different species to the other

Post: # 75657Post AM1C39
Fri Mar 05, 2021 12:34 pm

I can not open the picture.
My current colonies:
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In search of new camponotus colony
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Post: # 75658Post bugging3out
Fri Mar 05, 2021 12:37 pm

Okay giving you access now.
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Post: # 75659Post bugging3out
Fri Mar 05, 2021 12:39 pm

You can see now
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Post: # 75660Post AM1C39
Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:07 pm

It looks like she is doing great! :D Nice picture btw.
My current colonies:
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In search of new camponotus colony
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Post: # 75662Post bugging3out
Fri Mar 05, 2021 2:08 pm

Thanks.
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Re: Journal on brood boosting a different species to the other

Post: # 75669Post AM1C39
Fri Mar 05, 2021 7:12 pm

As you all know I have 2 colonies of camponotus novaeboracensis one colony has no queen but lots of brood, I have decided that I will give their brood to the other colony. I would not be doing this if it wasn't for bugging3out because usually brood busting only works with polygenous species but it now seams that it (may) work with 2 different species, which has encouraged me to do this. I will post what happens here.
My current colonies:
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In search of new camponotus colony
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Post: # 75671Post bugging3out
Sat Mar 06, 2021 8:33 am

Okay sounds good.
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Post: # 75672Post bugging3out
Sat Mar 06, 2021 8:52 am

Day 2
Queen ant has been cleaning and feeding all the babies that are in the test tube. No cocoons has hatched yet. But I will be expecting some workers soon.
There is no need for pictures since it’s the same thing as yesterday.
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