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Post by Wood~Ant on Jun 3, 2018 9:08:14 GMT
For some odd reason a bigger Camponotus fedtschenkoi worker suddenly grabbed a smaller sister in an aggressive manner.
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Post by TenebrousNova on Jun 3, 2018 15:58:31 GMT
The major was probably being overzealous and initially mistook her sister for the fly.
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Post by Jenny on Jun 3, 2018 18:05:22 GMT
She wasn't touching the fly, rather scared of it actually. Makes us wonder if they were collected from the same nest looking at their behaviour. They seem to be doing that a lot picking on each other as it is most of the smaller ones that are dying off having only had them a few days. At this rate unless that queen starts laying soon, this colony is doomed, another £60 down the drain if it doesn't turn around, never again will I be spending that sort of money out on colonies! This is not the only doomed colony we have had from britishants I am sad to say. Keeping fingers crossed they survive
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Post by shane on Jun 3, 2018 19:17:32 GMT
She wasn't touching the fly, rather scared of it actually. Makes us wonder if they were collected from the same nest looking at their behaviour. They seem to be doing that a lot picking on each other as it is most of the smaller ones that are dying off having only had them a few days. At this rate unless that queen starts laying soon, this colony is doomed, another £60 down the drain if it doesn't turn around, never again will I be spending that sort of money out on colonies! This is not the only doomed colony we have had from britishants I am sad to say. Keeping fingers crossed they survive I find Asia ants hard at times with Temperature right humidity ect . Been in mid of UK the temperature is always up and down. Yes I've has some colony's that get confused with there sister workers even eating there dead or attack anything in range even a sister ant. When stuff like that go on in a colony I pray queen keeps safe.
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Post by UKantz on Jun 4, 2018 8:18:42 GMT
I have to agree with Jenny on her comment about britishants - only a handful of the colonies I've purchased from there seem to have thrived with me, most of the time it being no fault of my own.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Jun 5, 2018 8:05:04 GMT
I am now wondering what this behaviour is? Frustration at having no larvae or pupae to carry around, as this big worker didn't appear to harm the small one; but carried her around very protectively.
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Post by tatufmetuf on Jun 13, 2018 15:30:20 GMT
I've seen already two times the exact same situation with my Myrmica rubra (and I only own them for a day) one carry the other by the neck one time to put her back into the nest one time to put her in a hole. I was a bit shocked than I remembered your video
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Post by 1moldavite on Jan 6, 2019 18:22:56 GMT
Seems to me like the small worker was not well,and the major was placing her out of the way so others could get on with the job in hand getting food for the colony,I got my Queen from AntsRus, but I did buy my purpose built wooden nest from British ants,I have checked out his ants,but never bought any,I also wonder if some ants have only been feed on protein jelly in which case life feed they may not know how to deal with,also was that a flightless fruitfly or was it a house fly,if it was a house fly it may have come into contact with chemicals outside which could kill ants,I'll be breeding live food to feed my ants for keeping costs down.
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Post by TenebrousNova on Jan 7, 2019 17:58:28 GMT
Seems to me like the small worker was not well,and the major was placing her out of the way so others could get on with the job in hand getting food for the colony,I got my Queen from AntsRus, but I did buy my purpose built wooden nest from British ants,I have checked out his ants,but never bought any,I also wonder if some ants have only been feed on protein jelly in which case life feed they may not know how to deal with,also was that a flightless fruitfly or was it a house fly,if it was a house fly it may have come into contact with chemicals outside which could kill ants,I'll be breeding live food to feed my ants for keeping costs down. Looks like a regular housefly. Fruit flies are much smaller.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Jan 8, 2019 8:19:14 GMT
Ants hunting prey give off strong recruitment pheromones, and this will cause them to become aggressive. This is probably why the smaller worker was picked on by the larger one, but she was not harmed. The fly was freshly killed in our garden and safe to eat.
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