Can ants adopt a workers?

[AntsAntsAnts]

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.

yes, I have actually done that with polyrhachis ants because I had like 20 colonies

[SolenopsisKeeper]

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.

yes, I have actually done that with polyrhachis ants because I had like 20 colonies

I have a monogynos spieces of trap jaw ants who will readily accept new workers from the wild.

[AntsAntsAnts]

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.

yes, I have actually done that with polyrhachis ants because I had like 20 colonies

I have a monogynos spieces of trap jaw ants who will readily accept new workers from the wild.

then it should work unless your colony only accepted them as food for the larvae...

[SolenopsisKeeper]

yes, I have actually done that with polyrhachis ants because I had like 20 colonies

I have a monogynos spieces of trap jaw ants who will readily accept new workers from the wild.

then it should work unless your colony only accepted them as food for the larvae...

No, it was for work to be done. It was a small colony, and people say you shouldn’t raise them in modular nest, but I use ytong filled with soil so it is fine, but I monitored it closely. One worker died a few weeks after, and they ate its gaster(they didn’t kill I watched him die at 12 in night)