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Post by Formicalondon on Feb 28, 2006 18:16:30 GMT
Last Autumn I Purchased a colony of Pheidologeton diversus with 2 queens anyway after a few weeks all the workers died and I was panicking because the queens started eating there brood. I become convinced they was going to die I had one guy kindly help me by sending me some workers which kept it going although I had lost one queen before they arrived in the post. Eventually the queen died and was eaten by the remaining workers and then suddenly one day all the workers went just like that. I think though that the biggest mistake I made with the colony was to force them out of the glass test tube they arrived in although I had little choice as one of the queens was trapped in ball of mud which had formed from the wet dirt in the tube being shaken on the journey.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Mar 1, 2006 16:55:53 GMT
I hate it when ants are sent in a test tube full of damp soil It often blocks up the open end and you have to try to dig it out. This usually results in either the glass tube breaking, or the ants becoming trapped down at the bottom and blocked in by a tight bung of compacted soil Sorry to here about your colony though FormicaLondon
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Post by Formicalondon on Mar 4, 2006 19:26:52 GMT
thanks yeah that’s exactly what happened and when I got the queens out they was really stressed they just got so confused and separated from the workers that I guess was the major factor in their demise.
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