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Post by Wood~Ant on Apr 7, 2018 16:05:22 GMT
Eggs hatch in 7 to 10 days, larval stage about 30 days and pupa 17 to 21 days. Roughly 8 weeks at a temperature of 21 to 23 Celsius. Brood develop in about 7 weeks at 24 Celsius or higher, but development is slower until summer with this species, and eggs laid now can produce smaller workers. Hope this helps?
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Post by TenebrousNova on Apr 7, 2018 16:23:57 GMT
Eggs hatch in 7 to 10 days, larval stage about 30 days and pupa 17 to 21 days. Roughly 8 weeks at a temperature of 21 to 23 Celsius. Brood develop in about 7 weeks at 24 Celsius or higher, but development is slower until summer with this species, and eggs laid now can produce smaller workers. Hope this helps? Very helpful, thank you!
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Post by TenebrousNova on Apr 11, 2018 13:59:15 GMT
No new eggs so far, but I'm hoping that will change soon?
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Post by TenebrousNova on Apr 16, 2018 22:14:31 GMT
A third egg was laid very recently! The others haven't hatched yet, but it must be a matter of days now.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Apr 17, 2018 13:21:47 GMT
A third egg was laid very recently! The others haven't hatched yet, but it must be a matter of days now. If you can keep the temperature at a minimum of 17 Celsius at night and higher than 20 in the day, then the eggs should hatch in the next 3 or 4 days.
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Post by TenebrousNova on Apr 25, 2018 21:42:06 GMT
Still no larvae and no more eggs have been laid. I have noticed that one of the eggs has darkened slightly, however. It's difficult to tell because there's always a worker standing right over them.
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Post by TenebrousNova on May 3, 2018 12:52:41 GMT
I'm beginning to worry that this queen isn't even fertile, as one of the eggs grew sort of wrinkly and got eaten. The others still show no signs of hatching and other ant keepers have pointed out to me that her workers look like they could've been from wild colonies.
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Post by Wood~Ant on May 3, 2018 15:26:28 GMT
Eggs laid in April should be at least 50% hatched into larvae by now, like the eggs have done in my colony. Something sounds most definitely wrong with yours if you don't have any larvae by now.
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Post by TenebrousNova on May 16, 2018 23:44:56 GMT
The last egg began to show signs of discolouration and was then eaten a few days ago. Considering the adults are all well fed and calm, I can't imagine it was due to stress.
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Post by TenebrousNova on May 22, 2018 12:11:50 GMT
To my great surprise, the queen has suddenly laid a big clutch of about ten eggs. That was out of the blue. The question is, will they hatch?
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Post by TenebrousNova on May 31, 2018 17:06:47 GMT
Here are those eggs, I just hope they're viable. The one at the bottom right looks a bit squashed to me.
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Post by TenebrousNova on Jun 9, 2018 8:29:29 GMT
Most of those eggs have already turned black and been eaten. I'm convinced now that they're trophic eggs.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Jun 9, 2018 9:46:34 GMT
Most of those eggs have already turned black and been eaten. I'm convinced now that they're trophic eggs. Fertile eggs would have hatched into larvae before now, so I hope that your queen is mated and lays eggs that produce worker ants as my colony has cocooned pupae now from eggs laid in April.
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Post by TenebrousNova on Jun 15, 2018 14:41:42 GMT
I'm now considering moving this colony back into a test tube, since they've got a very large nest that they only occupy a few chambers of- and they ate the last of their eggs earlier.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Jun 15, 2018 15:47:40 GMT
While this ant species seems to prefer to have their nest a bit on the dry side, they like to raise brood close to a moist area. Keep the humidity low and an average temperature of about 23 Celsius.
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