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Brood Boosting. (Open to opinions).
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:15 pm
by harry7778
Hello everyone, I'm fairly new to this hobby and I've recently been experimenting with a method called brood boosting. What this means is placing multiple queens in one test tube to increase the amount of eggs/brood produced. Afterwards removing all queens but one otherwise they are most likely to kill each other and leave the first workers with no queen at all.
I have 4 lasius queens in this one test tube and they produced a lot more than expected, will this be too much for the one queen to handle and should I just leave the other queens inside and hope for the best.
Picture: https://gyazo.com/a435da3b47bfb28c9813d5b62476ef81
Re: Brood Boosting. (Open to opinions).
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:52 pm
by cheetawolf
i think it makes the queens who have no eggs sad
Re: Brood Boosting. (Open to opinions).
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 2:11 pm
by AntsDakota
harry7778 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:15 pm
Hello everyone, I'm fairly new to this hobby and I've recently been experimenting with a method called brood boosting. What this means is placing multiple queens in one test tube to increase the amount of eggs/brood produced. Afterwards removing all queens but one otherwise they are most likely to kill each other and leave the first workers with no queen at all.
I have 4 lasius queens in this one test tube and they produced a lot more than expected, will this be too much for the one queen to handle and should I just leave the other queens inside and hope for the best.
Picture: https://gyazo.com/a435da3b47bfb28c9813d5b62476ef81
Just leave them together until they have pupae or even callow workers. They should start to fight a few days after their workers arrive. Or sooner, depending on species.
Re: Brood Boosting. (Open to opinions).
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 2:12 pm
by AntsDakota
And the definition of brood boosting most people use is collecting brood from wild colonies and your ants accepting them.