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Post by fleck on Nov 19, 2012 4:58:42 GMT
Here's the video of the move.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Nov 19, 2012 8:30:36 GMT
Fabulous video Fleck, and it was great to watch the workers carrying the brood up the tubing; and also to see the queen and the very large majors moving into the new set up. Hope you don't mind, but I have changed the link to HD as it is so good.
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Post by Jenny on Nov 19, 2012 14:46:23 GMT
You were lucky to catch it all on video, a successful move well captured that doesn't happen very often I enjoyed it very much
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Post by fleck on Nov 21, 2012 13:45:05 GMT
Update. ( 21/11/2012 ) It's been 5 days since they moved into the new nest, but they still can't seem to make up their minds on where to put their broods! The brood keeps being moved around the nest and also into the tube to the out-world. Right now, there's a few pupae in the tube, half of the brood which consist of bigger larvae and pupae nears the queen, and the other half which consist of small larvae, eggs and pupae in another part of the formicarium. But the good news is that the queen seems to be in egg-laying mode! I saw a few dozen eggs and some very small larvae, so this colony should be over 200 workers in two months time. Most of the workers are packed in the tubing connected to the out-world... Don't have the slightest idea why, since there's plenty of space in the formicarium and the queen isn't in the tube... Anyway, I fed them cooked sausage and egg yesterday, and it's evident that they like the egg better. I checked today and the egg is noticeably smaller than yesterday, and they also covered both of the pieces with the substrate in the out-world. Pictures! Their out-world. The ants and the brood. Dark shot of a major.
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Post by Zarbi on Nov 21, 2012 14:10:20 GMT
You take some wonderful photos Fleck, so it is nice to see you've been placed in the ant photography group.
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Post by fleck on Nov 21, 2012 14:40:31 GMT
Thanks! I haven't noticed that myself! I guess I'll have to keep on practicing. I know I can get better photos, but I just can't get the lighting to work right.
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Post by fleck on Nov 26, 2012 6:04:11 GMT
Update. ( 26/11/2012 ) I gave them a Pheidole sp. queen I found yesterday night. They found it in a few seconds, then lost her again. Once one of the workers found her, she would bite and sting her, but it seems as if the attacks all miss, and the queen runs away again. This continued for who knows how long. I still saw the queen before I went to sleep, like 2 hours after I threw the queen into the foraging area. But she was gone this morning. Just a few pictures. I focused more on my Pheidole sp. colony this week. Anyway, videos of this colony will also come soon. Workers guarding/tending the broods. A rather nice photo of some workers on the wall near the tubing. Almost the same photo, just a worker walking past. A closer look of one of the workers on the wall.
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