Can I put a second tetramorium queen in with another tetramorium queen with larvae?
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- Ltislander
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Can I put a second tetramorium queen in with another tetramorium queen with larvae?
I caught a second one and I already have one
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Re: Can I put a second tetramorium queen in with another tetramorium queen with larvae?
Yeah I've done that experiment with this species. Did not go well. One of the queens will for sure die, and the other will most likely be injured or killed.
Proverbs 6:6-8
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
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Re: Can I put a second tetramorium queen in with another tetramorium queen with larvae?
Oh manidahoantgirl wrote: ↑Wed Jul 18, 2018 10:15 amYeah I've done that experiment with this species. Did not go well. One of the queens will for sure die, and the other will most likely be injured or killed.
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Re: Can I put a second tetramorium queen in with another tetramorium queen with larvae?
Some species it works with, but not this oneLtislander wrote: ↑Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:01 pmOh manidahoantgirl wrote: ↑Wed Jul 18, 2018 10:15 amYeah I've done that experiment with this species. Did not go well. One of the queens will for sure die, and the other will most likely be injured or killed.
Proverbs 6:6-8
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
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Re: Can I put a second tetramorium queen in with another tetramorium queen with larvae?
That would be one large tetramorium colonyidahoantgirl wrote: ↑Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:07 pmSome species it works with, but not this oneLtislander wrote: ↑Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:01 pmOh manidahoantgirl wrote: ↑Wed Jul 18, 2018 10:15 amYeah I've done that experiment with this species. Did not go well. One of the queens will for sure die, and the other will most likely be injured or killed.
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Re: Can I put a second tetramorium queen in with another tetramorium queen with larvae?
You can, but separate them before they have workers.
"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: Can I put a second tetramorium queen in with another tetramorium queen with larvae?
Nah, they will still kill each other in most cases before workers hatched. The longest I could get them to work together was a week.
Proverbs 6:6-8
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
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Re: Can I put a second tetramorium queen in with another tetramorium queen with larvae?
My Tetramorium queens have been together or 3 weeks.idahoantgirl wrote: ↑Thu Jul 19, 2018 11:33 amNah, they will still kill each other in most cases before workers hatched. The longest I could get them to work together was a week.
"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: Can I put a second tetramorium queen in with another tetramorium queen with larvae?
My Tetramorium queens have had workers for a week and 2 are perfectly healthy and one is just injured. I think they stopped attacking her.idahoantgirl wrote: ↑Thu Jul 19, 2018 11:33 amNah, they will still kill each other in most cases before workers hatched. The longest I could get them to work together was a week.
"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: Can I put a second tetramorium queen in with another tetramorium queen with larvae?
Well, we will see how that works out for ya.
Proverbs 6:6-8
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
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