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Post by Jenny on Jul 23, 2006 15:31:01 GMT
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Post by vocasla on Jul 24, 2006 9:15:42 GMT
thanks very much for that, quite interesting
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Post by hivemindsean on Mar 8, 2008 13:56:20 GMT
I hate to say it but I think your colony is doomed, maybe you should get a new one and start over
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Post by sammy on Mar 8, 2008 22:36:03 GMT
hey I haven't been on for a while, so ill say something. most of the possibility's have been said, I think it could be eating the eggs and relaying more, or it is infertile, I have one idea but , to see if it is eating them, if they are in a tube or you can easily get to them you could try getting a long, needle, bit of wood, long anything and try and steal a about 3or4 eggs and take them out and put them in a warm see though box or jar, so you can check them. if they start to grow into larvae then let them get quite big and put them back to the queen and she should take them, few hope it help, WARNING the eggs may die on there one or the queen will not accept them , but thats unlikely.
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Post by Kyle on May 19, 2008 10:46:03 GMT
But if an egg is infertile won't the eggs still turn into males anyway because thats how they produce males I think. correct me if I'm wrong.
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Post by Wood~Ant on May 19, 2008 16:49:16 GMT
But if an egg is infertile won't the eggs still turn into males anyway because thats how they produce males I think. correct me if I'm wrong. Unfertilized eggs do produce males, but usually such eggs are laid in late winter. Any which are laid from spring into summer are more often eaten by the larvae (trophic eggs). Others are sometimes addled and not cleaned by attending nursing workers, so they just go mouldy and are removed from the nest; but you're not wrong to state that unfertilized eggs can grow into males
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