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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2015 17:27:39 GMT
13th June 2015 We now have lots of naked pupae! I'm not worried though given my past experiences with my other queens EATING them, even though there are 3 of them, I'd like to see them eating that lot! The challenge is on, queen ant versus food
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2015 16:44:14 GMT
20th June 2015
The pupae are starting to look like they may eclose soon.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2015 18:41:37 GMT
21st June 2015
I've been diligently watching this colony for a few days now looking out for new callow workers and today I actually watched my first worker eclose! Pretty amazing seeing it actually happen in front of you. There are a total of three in the nest now, in the video there's one in the middle chamber and two in the right hand side chamber.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2015 20:10:04 GMT
22nd June 2015
More callows today, 7 in total I counted and the nest is a hive of activity as more pupae prepare to eclose.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2015 21:26:45 GMT
22nd June 2015
I had noticed pupae in the nest that looked slightly different then the rest, larger and darker, and to my amazement winged ants have begun to emerge from them! These will be killed and fed to the larvae I assume, since they probably won't leave the nest?
1st winged ant eclosing.....
....and then a 2nd.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2015 17:51:05 GMT
25th June 2015
Loads of callows now, and winged males...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2015 15:25:33 GMT
3rd July 2015
We have a lot of alates plus more callow workers have emerged.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2015 19:36:33 GMT
9th July 2015 My sabs do sure love their maple syrup!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2015 12:52:01 GMT
19th July 2015
This will be the last video of this colony in its current starter nest before it's moved into its new 30cm x 20cm acrylic nest that I've just ordered from Anthouse. As you can see pretty much all of the pupae have eclosed and the colony has increased in size, outgrowing the nest they're in.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2015 17:45:47 GMT
Three months ago I rehoused this colony into a larger nest although it may be a little TOO large considering their size but they seem to be doing ok. They are using some of the chambers as rubbish dumps however they've brought in some of the calcium sand that I'm now using as substrate in the outworld which is preventing the build-up of mould. How very clever of them to know to do that? I'm still feeding them maple syrup water and admittedly I didn't feed them much protein these last couple of months just making sure that they always had water and that the nest was well hydrated. I've fed them a dead fly today and they do seem to be showing some interest in it but I'm not really sure if they're still feeding the larvae. Anyway I can't wait 'till next year and see how well this colony progresses
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