Post by Wood~Ant on Jun 21, 2007 20:26:59 GMT
Checking out the largest colony of Lasius niger under the slabs in our garden today, I don't believe that I have ever seen so many queen cocoons as there are this year 
I know all of these won't make it through the mating flight, as many will of course fall foul of predators such as birds; but looking at the vast numbers of this years alate cocoons, they will produce one of the largest nuptial flights for a long time, and that there should be many hundreds of mated queens later this summer, as there are thousands waiting to eclose soon
I know all of these won't make it through the mating flight, as many will of course fall foul of predators such as birds; but looking at the vast numbers of this years alate cocoons, they will produce one of the largest nuptial flights for a long time, and that there should be many hundreds of mated queens later this summer, as there are thousands waiting to eclose soon
I'd seen there are bigger cocoons, and you have answered a question I was going to ask. The question was, are the small cocoons workers and the bigger ones queens/princes. The one's I see to have about 40 big cocoons that I counted, but as they were running fast I think there could of been more.
