My Pheidole Dentata are killing each other

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Treark
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My Pheidole Dentata are killing each other

Post: # 78491Post Treark
Sun Jun 13, 2021 7:02 pm

There is only one queen to this colony so I do not know why there behavior is like this. I put a injured mealworm in and during the ants attack on the mealworm they started fighting each other while they tried to drag it into the nest any ideas why. I couldn’t see them doing this in the wild or they wouldn’t be around still. https://share.icloud.com/photos/0bw2TUC1ylpJ3IFtWTIKrVvbg

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Antloverhuman
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Re: My Pheidole Dentata are killing each other

Post: # 98841Post Antloverhuman
Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:56 am

Cant see photos but when my camponotus colony was young, the workers would also fight. I still don't know why but after a few weeks they stopped. They never really killed each other but did spray formic acid.
Ants I have-
camponotus compressus colony- the shadow warriors.
Pls just let me have a tetramorium colony

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