Broken Antennae
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Broken Antennae
Just caught a camponotus queen, which was pretty exciting, but upon further inspection I discovered that one of her antennae is broken off about halfway down. Will she found a colony or should I just put her back outside?
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Re: Broken Antennae
An ant can still communicate even with one antenna. Having one antenna is something like having one eye. So if she's mated she is just as likely to found a colony than a queen with 2 antennae.BowzerSlayer wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 6:13 pmJust caught a camponotus queen, which was pretty exciting, but upon further inspection I discovered that one of her antennae is broken off about halfway down. Will she found a colony or should I just put her back outside?
Thanks!
"God made every kind of wild beasts and every kind of livestock and every kind of creeping things;" (including ants) "and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:25
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Re: Broken Antennae
Thanks for the info! I think she's missing part of a leg too but she seems to be moving around just fine. I found her as I finished mowing my lawn and can't help but feel responsible for the loss of limb, but she's in good hands now.AntsDakota wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 6:23 pmAn ant can still communicate even with one antenna. Having one antenna is something like having one eye. So if she's mated she is just as likely to found a colony than a queen with 2 antennae.BowzerSlayer wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 6:13 pmJust caught a camponotus queen, which was pretty exciting, but upon further inspection I discovered that one of her antennae is broken off about halfway down. Will she found a colony or should I just put her back outside?
Thanks!
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Re: Broken Antennae
I had a lasuis Neoniger queen with a missing antennae. She reared a healthy colony to about 20 workers. Their death was completely my fault and not due at all the her antennae. ( I left them in a windowsil and they kinda... cooked.)
Proverbs 6:6-8
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
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Re: Broken Antennae
How sad! Gotta be careful with direct sunlight (but I'm sure you knew that lol). This makes queen number 5 for me. I only started keeping ants this summer and I'm loving it. Just had my application to be a GAN farmer accepted too!idahoantgirl wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 8:17 pmI had a lasuis Neoniger queen with a missing antennae. She reared a healthy colony to about 20 workers. Their death was completely my fault and not due at all the her antennae. ( I left them in a windowsil and they kinda... cooked.)
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Re: Broken Antennae
Sweet! Yeah they were my first colony from 3 years ago so it was kinda inevitable that something would go wrongBowzerSlayer wrote: ↑Fri Aug 03, 2018 6:48 amHow sad! Gotta be careful with direct sunlight (but I'm sure you knew that lol). This makes queen number 5 for me. I only started keeping ants this summer and I'm loving it. Just had my application to be a GAN farmer accepted too!idahoantgirl wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 8:17 pmI had a lasuis Neoniger queen with a missing antennae. She reared a healthy colony to about 20 workers. Their death was completely my fault and not due at all the her antennae. ( I left them in a windowsil and they kinda... cooked.)
Proverbs 6:6-8
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
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Re: Broken Antennae
Maybe you can help me identify one? I know I have two camponotus and two tetramorium, but I'm unsure about the fifth. It's smaller than the tetramorium with similar proportions. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wSdike4Kmks6kePcweAPi5SVpAgctLo7/view?usp=drivesdkhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vd1BYmtUCoP-250CTcewoe5onCwQqBbN/view?usp=drivesdkhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1U-R74WXBDI8WQ_JUyIDzp-RTp1SLxI8d/view?usp=drivesdkidahoantgirl wrote: ↑Fri Aug 03, 2018 3:18 pmSweet! Yeah they were my first colony from 3 years ago so it was kinda inevitable that something would go wrongBowzerSlayer wrote: ↑Fri Aug 03, 2018 6:48 amHow sad! Gotta be careful with direct sunlight (but I'm sure you knew that lol). This makes queen number 5 for me. I only started keeping ants this summer and I'm loving it. Just had my application to be a GAN farmer accepted too!idahoantgirl wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 8:17 pmI had a lasuis Neoniger queen with a missing antennae. She reared a healthy colony to about 20 workers. Their death was completely my fault and not due at all the her antennae. ( I left them in a windowsil and they kinda... cooked.)
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Re: Broken Antennae
Hmm my specialty is not IDs. Best to make a separate post so you can get lots of peoples opinions
Proverbs 6:6-8
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
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