Tetramorium queens
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Tetramorium queens
I caught 3 Tetramorium cf. immigrans queens! I once heard that Tetramorium caespitum are possibly polygynous, so I put them together. They never fought, they just huddled in a big group and touched antennae. Working on pictures.
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while i was catching tetremorium i only had one container so i put them all together later i found out i had only one test tube left when i had 2 queens left so i put them together seem friendly... for now...
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They layed 60 or 70 eggs, in 1 week, between only three queens! I am so excited for the nanitics to arrive!
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They have about 20 medium-large larvae, about 20 medium-small larvae, and about 30 eggs. One queen started moving brood into a dark corner of the test tube, and the other queens just huddled in a group not knowing what to do.
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Re: Tetramorium queens
9 days for medium larvae!!!!!
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It was actually 2 weeks.
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They have larvae of every size and a lot of eggs.
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There known as a fast growing species for a good reason then!
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Any pics.? i have 2 queens.both cant be same genus. The 1 i think is pavement queen still has no eggs. The otheris my first and already has workers after a month. no pics of er bc she's been undisturbed. Pics to
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They have 2-3 black workers and around 10 tan workers! 2 queens are perfectly healthy, but one has only 3 limbs which are all half or more gone. She can still crawl around the test tube, but at a slower pace. I think the queens might have started fighting but then called a truce. I think I might have even caught the injured queen lay several eggs.
"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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