Help me identify if this queen ant is mated. Pls.

[AngusTay122]

Pls help me. Ant species is green tree ant. : )

[AngusTay122]

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[AngusTay122]

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[harvesterant]

If she has dropped her wings off, then she is mated. Otherwise, it is harder to identify, maybe wait and see if she lays eggs.

[JoeHostile1]

The only way to tell if a queen is mated is to see if she produces female workers. Her shedding her wings is not an indication of having mated. All queens whether mated or not will eventually drop their wings if they don’t die first. In fact if a mated queen refuses to shed her wings her workers will eventually rip them off her.

[harvesterant]

Wow, I learned something new. So the queen can shed her wings without mating.

[JoeHostile1]

Sure except if a queen took off her wings and didn’t lay any eggs you still won’t know weather she mated or if there was just something wrong with her. Like I said the only way to know if a queen successfully mated is if she produces female workers.

Here’s my tetramorium queen when she was founding her colony. She now has over 10k workers. Her wings weren’t removed until she had 6 workers and they spent a month chewing on her wings.

https://imgur.com/gallery/72QVDtF