Thought their nuptial flights were over.AntsDakota wrote: ↑Mon Jun 25, 2018 10:24 amI caught another C. pennsylvanicus queen a few days ago, and she is in a test tube setup. I hope she's mated too!
My Camponotus pennsylvanicus queen
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i know this is done with wire mesh in between the colonies it would be a cool experimentAntsDakota wrote: ↑Mon Jun 25, 2018 10:29 amI will try an experiment. Once winter comes around, I will connect the 2 colonies together, and block the entrance to the other colony's nest with cotton. When spring comes, the 2 colonies will develop the same pheromone id and then I will unblock the tube to the other nest. The queens will be confined only to their test tubes with tubing that queens are too large to get through, and only workers will be able to pass through. Therefore, the queens will not be able to fight, and the workers will hopefully not kill one queen or the other, and the colony will have 2 queens.
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The former one has 2 pupae, a medium larvae, and 8 eggs! I will be expecting nanitics by next week!
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I forgot to mention that the new queen has 9 eggs!
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She now has 14 eggs!
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Still no nanitics. Here's her status. She has 2 pupae, 2 medium larvae, 2 small larvae, and 12 eggs. 18 brood in total. (I know, that's a lot of 2s. )AntsDakota wrote: ↑Sat Jun 30, 2018 3:55 pmThe former one has 2 pupae, a medium larvae, and 8 eggs! I will be expecting nanitics by next week!
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She has 5 pupae, one of which is about ready to eclose, and a massive pile of eggs and larvae.
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There are around 5-6 larvae.
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Cool, well done. Sadly I live in the UK, one of the few places where the Camponotus genome are rare/nonexistent (because it's hard for a species of insect to emigrate across the sea!) I probably won't be able to ever care for a Camponotus colony. So you make the most of it for me!
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