Are unrelated male ants attracted to other queens?

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Are unrelated male ants attracted to other queens?

Post: # 83824Post AntsAntsAnts
Sat Oct 09, 2021 1:44 am

I found my queen ant swarmed with male alates of a different species outside its test tube. I am not sure if they are capable of mating with the queen and if they can even mate with a queen that has already begun egg-laying.
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Re: Are unrelated male ants attracted to other queens?

Post: # 84704Post AntsClementi
Wed Nov 03, 2021 2:58 am

I think the males mistaken your queen ant to their own species of queen ant :D :lol: maybe your queen is their species (we would never know)
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Re: Are unrelated male ants attracted to other queens?

Post: # 84749Post antnest8
Thu Nov 04, 2021 5:34 pm

AntsAntsAnts wrote:
Sat Oct 09, 2021 1:44 am
I found my queen ant swarmed with male alates of a different species outside its test tube. I am not sure if they are capable of mating with the queen and if they can even mate with a queen that has already begun egg-laying.
Are you certain they were another species? Male alates are often much different than their female counter-parts, usually different sizes and sometimes different colors as well.
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Re: Are unrelated male ants attracted to other queens?

Post: # 84750Post antnest8
Thu Nov 04, 2021 5:39 pm

AntsAntsAnts wrote:
Sat Oct 09, 2021 1:44 am
I found my queen ant swarmed with male alates of a different species outside its test tube. I am not sure if they are capable of mating with the queen and if they can even mate with a queen that has already begun egg-laying.
Also...

Although the queen may copulate with several males during her brief mating period, she never mates again.*

*citation : "Ants Mating, Reproduction, And Life Span." Science Jrank, science.jrank.org/pages/447/Ants-Mating-reproduction-life-span.html.
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Re: Are unrelated male ants attracted to other queens?

Post: # 84795Post AntsAntsAnts
Sat Nov 06, 2021 1:47 am

They eventually just died from age I guess but some did get in the test tube but the queen kind of ate them... :shock:
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Re: Are unrelated male ants attracted to other queens?

Post: # 84810Post AntsClementi
Sat Nov 06, 2021 11:05 pm

how did the male get in the test tube???? Isn't there he cotton to stop the queen from escaping :shock: :o :?: :?: :?: :?: And the males do not die from old age but after mating
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