Can ants adopt a workers?

[Antloverhuman]

Is it possible with highly polygenous ant species? Like a black crazy ant gets lost and is not able to find its way back home, it accidentally comes across a different black crazy ant colony. Will they adopt it?

[AM1C39]

Its posible, if the lost ant had food then most likelly yes.

[SolenopsisKeeper]

Is it possible with highly polygenous ant species? Like a black crazy ant gets lost and is not able to find its way back home, it accidentally comes across a different black crazy ant colony. Will they adopt it?

I have seen invtica do this in the wild.

[AntsAntsAnts]

Is it possible with highly polygenous ant species? Like a black crazy ant gets lost and is not able to find its way back home, it accidentally comes across a different black crazy ant colony. Will they adopt it?

bees do it only if the other unrelated bee has food so... perhaps fill its social stomach if you want to do it

[SolenopsisKeeper]

Is it possible with highly polygenous ant species? Like a black crazy ant gets lost and is not able to find its way back home, it accidentally comes across a different black crazy ant colony. Will they adopt it?

Yes, I believe so

[AntsAntsAnts]

Is it possible with highly polygenous ant species? Like a black crazy ant gets lost and is not able to find its way back home, it accidentally comes across a different black crazy ant colony. Will they adopt it?

Yes, I believe so

if that is what happens with brood, why not with polygynous ant workers?

[SolenopsisKeeper]

Is it possible with highly polygenous ant species? Like a black crazy ant gets lost and is not able to find its way back home, it accidentally comes across a different black crazy ant colony. Will they adopt it?

Yes, I believe so

if that is what happens with brood, why not with polygynous ant workers?

Depends. Invicta is 50/50. Even if you put them both the fridge, they still kill each other.

[AntsAntsAnts]

Yes, I believe so

if that is what happens with brood, why not with polygynous ant workers?

Depends. Invicta is 50/50. Even if you put them both the fridge, they still kill each other.

there is always a risk unless it's like yellow crazy ants or some form of polyrhachis

[SolenopsisKeeper]

if that is what happens with brood, why not with polygynous ant workers?

Depends. Invicta is 50/50. Even if you put them both the fridge, they still kill each other.

there is always a risk unless it's like yellow crazy ants or some form of polyrhachis

Or any ant. You could have found a sub spieces of the spieces and it won’t merge.

[SYUTEO]

I heard it's possible with Harpegnathos, many people start their colonies by introducing workers to queens and they won't fight even if they're from differnt colonies.