Brood Boosting. (Open to opinions).

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harry7778
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Brood Boosting. (Open to opinions).

Post: # 47501Post harry7778
Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:15 pm

Hello everyone, I'm fairly new to this hobby and I've recently been experimenting with a method called brood boosting. What this means is placing multiple queens in one test tube to increase the amount of eggs/brood produced. Afterwards removing all queens but one otherwise they are most likely to kill each other and leave the first workers with no queen at all.

I have 4 lasius queens in this one test tube and they produced a lot more than expected, will this be too much for the one queen to handle and should I just leave the other queens inside and hope for the best.

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Re: Brood Boosting. (Open to opinions).

Post: # 47517Post cheetawolf
Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:52 pm

i think it makes the queens who have no eggs sad :cry:
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Re: Brood Boosting. (Open to opinions).

Post: # 47557Post AntsDakota
Wed Aug 15, 2018 2:11 pm

harry7778 wrote:
Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:15 pm
Hello everyone, I'm fairly new to this hobby and I've recently been experimenting with a method called brood boosting. What this means is placing multiple queens in one test tube to increase the amount of eggs/brood produced. Afterwards removing all queens but one otherwise they are most likely to kill each other and leave the first workers with no queen at all.

I have 4 lasius queens in this one test tube and they produced a lot more than expected, will this be too much for the one queen to handle and should I just leave the other queens inside and hope for the best.

Picture: https://gyazo.com/a435da3b47bfb28c9813d5b62476ef81
Just leave them together until they have pupae or even callow workers. They should start to fight a few days after their workers arrive. Or sooner, depending on species.
"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: Brood Boosting. (Open to opinions).

Post: # 47558Post AntsDakota
Wed Aug 15, 2018 2:12 pm

And the definition of brood boosting most people use is collecting brood from wild colonies and your ants accepting them.
"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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