Do you recommend this method of catching queen ants?

[Tritonspaceants]

I hope I am posting on the right forum.Here is the question.I am thinking of a new method for catching queen ants.I was thinking that if it turned out a queen ant I caught was not fertilized,I could look for few males of the same species and place them together in a test tube together,and check if one has mted with the queen.What do you think?

[SYUTEO]

It doesn't work because the pair won't end up mating or the queen might end up killing the male. You can do what AC did in one of his videos which is catching as many queens and males into a jar and placing it near a light, do make sure the jar is big enough so they have an area to fly.

[Tritonspaceants]

Thank you!

[cosmo1190]

It doesn't work because the pair won't end up mating or the queen might end up killing the male. You can do what AC did in one of his videos which is catching as many queens and males into a jar and placing it near a light, do make sure the jar is big enough so they have an area to fly.

wow,so that is actually possible?

i'm having the same problem with my pheidole queen,she is laying her egg's but it seems that the egg's are not really developing...but she seem's to care for her egg's...and it have been one and a half month since i caught her...i have seen she eat the honey so...what should i do?

[SYUTEO]

It doesn't work because the pair won't end up mating or the queen might end up killing the male. You can do what AC did in one of his videos which is catching as many queens and males into a jar and placing it near a light, do make sure the jar is big enough so they have an area to fly.

wow,so that is actually possible?

i'm having the same problem with my pheidole queen,she is laying her egg's but it seems that the egg's are not really developing...but she seem's to care for her egg's...and it have been one and a half month since i caught her...i have seen she eat the honey so...what should i do?

She could be eating her eggs or she's infertile.

[cosmo1190]

It doesn't work because the pair won't end up mating or the queen might end up killing the male. You can do what AC did in one of his videos which is catching as many queens and males into a jar and placing it near a light, do make sure the jar is big enough so they have an area to fly.

wow,so that is actually possible?

i'm having the same problem with my pheidole queen,she is laying her egg's but it seems that the egg's are not really developing...but she seem's to care for her egg's...and it have been one and a half month since i caught her...i have seen she eat the honey so...what should i do?

She could be eating her eggs or she's infertile.

i don't really stressed her out though...i have leave her for half of a month....so she is infertile?

[SYUTEO]

wow,so that is actually possible?

i'm having the same problem with my pheidole queen,she is laying her egg's but it seems that the egg's are not really developing...but she seem's to care for her egg's...and it have been one and a half month since i caught her...i have seen she eat the honey so...what should i do?

She could be eating her eggs or she's infertile.

i don't really stressed her out though...i have leave her for half of a month....so she is infertile?

Possibly.

[cosmo1190]

She could be eating her eggs or she's infertile.

i don't really stressed her out though...i have leave her for half of a month....so she is infertile?

Possibly.

i see...hmm..thank you

[AM1C39]

Half a month will not be enought time for the eggs to develope very mutch so maybe just wait a litle longer, like a month or two.

[cosmo1190]

Half a month will not be enought time for the eggs to develope very mutch so maybe just wait a litle longer, like a month or two.

sorry it was a typo...it's actually one month and half...