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Post by occultus on Aug 28, 2015 18:53:39 GMT
I received my Lasius flavus queens from Wood and Jen today after they kindly held onto the ants for me. There are two test-tubes with 3 queens inside and a big pile of eggs and 1 test-tube with a single queen inside. All the ants look healthy and content. This journal will follow just 3 of the queens that I have with the largest pile of eggs present. The colony was founded on 07/08/15
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Post by Wood~Ant on Aug 29, 2015 7:34:26 GMT
I hope our Sussex girls do well for you, as I asked them to produce plenty of workers before we sent them and they seem to have laid a lot of eggs.
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Post by occultus on Aug 29, 2015 9:37:36 GMT
They've certainly listened . I want to compare their growth rate with this years Lasius niger colony.
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Post by occultus on Oct 7, 2015 21:50:01 GMT
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huwby
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Post by huwby on Oct 8, 2015 5:39:49 GMT
hey, I hope you don't mind me asking, but where did you get that nest from? Also nice colony!
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Post by occultus on Oct 8, 2015 6:47:27 GMT
Hi Huwby, all of theses nests were purchased from link Anthouse.es Good quality and perfect for expanding new colonies
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Post by Wood~Ant on Oct 8, 2015 7:46:46 GMT
The queens I believe are from Chichester in Sussex, as our local girls seem to do well at founding good colonies.
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Post by occultus on Oct 8, 2015 17:03:47 GMT
The queens I believe are from Chichester in Sussex, as our local girls seem to do well at founding good colonies. Haha the Sussex produce great Queens! I wish every colony that we purchase online told us exactly when and where they were taken from. It would be helpful and we could better match the climate requirements for the ants.
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Post by occultus on May 6, 2016 22:56:37 GMT
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Post by occultus on Jun 1, 2016 16:28:58 GMT
I just realised that my colony has had their nest port open for the past two weeks..woops
No queens have escaped and the majority of workers look to be still present.
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hedge
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Post by hedge on Sept 8, 2016 23:15:55 GMT
This is interesting, I've only heard in the past that, when multiple flavus queens found a colony together, once the first workers eclose it's rapidly whittled down to a single queen. Or, occasionally, multiple queens but they don't tolerate each other's presences so live in different chambers in the nest.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Sept 9, 2016 7:09:35 GMT
I actually kept a colony of flavus with 7 queens who lived in peaceful co-existence for well over a year; and would have continued to do so had I not released the colony into the wild later. Not once did the queens or their workers show any aggression. This is a complete contrast to L. niger who will only tolerate multiple queens during the colony founding stage, then the workers kill off all but one, or sometimes kill all the queens, though this event is rare.
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Post by Zarbi on Sept 9, 2016 7:47:41 GMT
This is interesting, I've only heard in the past that, when multiple flavus queens found a colony together, once the first workers eclose it's rapidly whittled down to a single queen. Or, occasionally, multiple queens but they don't tolerate each other's presences so live in different chambers in the nest. Flavus queens will live together in the same nest and in the same chamber. Check out this journal to read more about it. Wood's Lasius flavus
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hedge
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Post by hedge on Sept 9, 2016 14:01:30 GMT
Aye, I've found that now, I'm surprised as I've only heard they're peiometric or oligogyne, not polygyne.
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