Queen neglecting her eggs
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Re: Queen neglecting her eggs
Try not to disturb her for two weeks and see if that helps,.
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Re: Queen neglecting her eggs
I'll try leaving her for two weeks as you suggested, I am already in the process of doing that actually but if I see no progress I'll probably release her back into the wild
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Re: Queen neglecting her eggs
Before releasing I would try at least one second testtube. Sometimes the queens just don't like the testtube for whatever reason. So that could be why she keeps eating her eggs to find a better spot.
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Re: Queen neglecting her eggs
Good idea, I'll try that afterwards, I do have one more question, must I feed her protein now since she ate all her eggs? I'm guessing she no longer has enough protein from her wing muscles anymore
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Re: Queen neglecting her eggs
If you have cut a little put of a mealworm or take a cockroach leg if you have those and place it in the testtube for a few days. Maybe a droplet of honey too. But usually if the queen eats the eggs she will regain most of the proteins.
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Re: Queen neglecting her eggs
This is just an update if you're interested, the queen didn't make it unfortunately. She was a camp. vagus, luckily I have a few more. I'm guessing she was infertile after all.
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Re: Queen neglecting her eggs
not to disagree with the fact that she may or may not have been infertile. Just wanted to add that sometimes queens die for unknown reasons within the first year or shortly after.
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