interest in ant colony sizes

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tavisalo
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interest in ant colony sizes

Post: # 39479Post tavisalo
Sun Jul 01, 2018 2:03 pm

I'm interested in big growing ant colony. which of these three will be biggest in the right condition ???

Lasius niger
Myrmica rubra
Tetramorium caespitum

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Re: interest in ant colony sizes

Post: # 39714Post DictaruraSrl
Tue Jul 03, 2018 3:20 pm

All of this colonies, from what i know tend to get over 10000+ workers. At the myrmica rubra colony there can be a bigger number of workers if the number of the queens is higher. As a polygin species, myrmica rubra accepts multiple queens so this might be an advantage when talking about the workers numbers. But be carefull that you can only add queens at the begining stages because otherwise the queen will be most likely killed. Also what is unique about myrmica rubra is that if the colony remains queenless, it is a high chance to accept a new one.

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