pogonomyrmex occidentalis

[QJH2023]

I crushed some pull bugs, all I could find atm. But something more interesting I thought I’d introduce a few workers I found outside and separated from their nest for a good 12 hours. They aren’t killing her they’re smelling her and vice versa so I think they may end up serving her. Thoughts?

you should never combine workers with a queen! although if you do really want to you could kill one of the workers force her into close corners for awhile then combine which only works about 70% of the time

[Hawkeye]

I crushed some pull bugs, all I could find atm. But something more interesting I thought I’d introduce a few workers I found outside and separated from their nest for a good 12 hours. They aren’t killing her they’re smelling her and vice versa so I think they may end up serving her. Thoughts?

Wow I strongly recommend you never do that again! I hope you just got extremely lucky, but workers from another nest will consider a foreign queen well foreign... and thus a threat. A threat they need to eliminate.

[HaydenP95]

I think I got extremely lucky, cause she’s still alive and the workers aren’t bothering her. But I wanted to do it as an experiment and see if they lose their colonies scent after a while and it seems they might have

[Hawkeye]

I think I got extremely lucky, cause she’s still alive and the workers aren’t bothering her. But I wanted to do it as an experiment and see if they lose their colonies scent after a while and it seems they might have

Lady luck was surely smiling at you

[HaydenP95]

And upon looking at the cage, she killed and ate them not vise versa