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Post by 1moldavite on Mar 29, 2019 11:44:49 GMT
She arrived with my other colony,she has no workers as yet,but she has a big pile of eggs/brood. She is a bit smaller than other Queens of her species I have seen,but she seems healthy which is the important thing. She is in her test tube wrapped in tin foil in a drawer where hopefully she will feel comfortable,I'll offer her some honey water tomorrow morning.
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Post by 1moldavite on Apr 6, 2019 22:43:45 GMT
I checked on my Queen today she still hasn't got a worker yet,but she has laid five eggs,so that's five eggs,1 larvae and two cocoons,so I'm glad she seems settled in her test tube.
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Post by 1moldavite on Apr 8, 2019 13:11:23 GMT
I apologize for the focus issues,this is my Queen and brood.
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Post by 1moldavite on Apr 15, 2019 18:23:48 GMT
I put in half a cricket in the test tube just in case,the problem now is she has dragged it to where her eggs/brood is so I'll have more problems trying to remove it when it has a possibility of going moldy,I can only think she did this possibly because she has larvae which are feeding off it.
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Post by 1moldavite on Jun 12, 2019 11:58:19 GMT
This Queen still has no workers and I've now got my suspitions that this is an infertile Queen,shame really,I'll try buying a Queen from a different ant site and see what happens,obviously I will not be keeping both Queens together.
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Post by jeoff82 on Jun 12, 2019 12:57:02 GMT
What happened to the cocoons? If she's infertile only males will appear.
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Post by 1moldavite on Jun 13, 2019 8:21:20 GMT
The cocoons disappeared, still no workers and no way that any workers could have escaped either.
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Post by 1moldavite on Jun 19, 2019 21:50:59 GMT
I have just spotted movement in her test tube, this was a very small light colored worker,and as shy as the queen is and I'm happy that one of other queens have a colony,be it a tiny colony,that just leaves my carpenter and Messor Queen without workers.
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Post by 1moldavite on Sept 14, 2019 10:24:04 GMT
The worker died shortly after my last post and yesterday I found the queen dead,so this is the end of my Lasius niger Queen.
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