Brachymyrmex question!!!!!

[martinnate]

Does anyone have any information on Brachymyrmex Sp that you want to share please reply post here. Thanks in advance. I'm going to buy a microcamera for my phone tomorrow. I will post pics asap and mor inmfo here.

[martinnate]

This is the best pic I could get. They r really small.

[Batspiderfish]

What kind of information? be specific?

[martinnate]

Ok

[martinnate]

Early March I saved a queen from my pot water garden. She was small about 1cm with a huge Abdomen (over 1\2 her body) she laid about 12 eggs and after about 6 workers the queen died IDK why, I could have stressed her out from looking to much. I gave honey after the 1st few workers. And then after she died I think the workers ate her. So I give them food to let them live there lives. That was a bout 4 months ago, but now they have doubled in number and I can see little eggs or larva. Can they select a new queen? I watched an AntsCanada video that talked about an ant that can do that. I forget what thats called, but can Brachymyrmex do that?

[Batspiderfish]

1cm is 2-3 times larger than a Brachymyrmex queen.

What do you mean by "doubled in number"? I see six workers in the picture. If you are just referring to brood, they are probably eggs laid by the workers, which will most likely turn into useless males.

[martinnate]

That is a bad pic but the best I could do. They went from 6 to like 20. From what I can see none of them have wings. I will just let them live their lives in the test tube. If they continue to reproduce then cool if not the they will die. Thanks for ur help. Oh and I may have the mesurment wrong ____ the line is about how big she was.