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C vicinus has 2 alates


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#1 Offline sweetgrass - Posted May 13 2019 - 5:29 PM

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I’ve had quite a day!!!

The last great thing was when feeding my vicinus colony
(that I extracted last fall from a log and whose queen died at some point- yet new eggs are being laid!)
I spotted 2 alates!!! Wow

I found another log with vicinus as well 6 wk ago. They are in a huge plastic container with log and all - the alates all emerged yesterday and I let them out 5 or 6 times.

#2 Offline Acutus - Posted May 13 2019 - 7:27 PM

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Eggs from your first colony with the alates are probably drones. Eggs are being laid by an un mated female.


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#3 Offline sweetgrass - Posted May 13 2019 - 8:31 PM

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Ahhh. Ok. Thank you.




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