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Americans with Pogonomyrmex occidentalis- founding advice needed!!


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#1 Offline sweetgrass - Posted August 8 2019 - 12:31 PM

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I have 2 tubes each with 2 pogonomyrmex queens and a big pile of eggs. And a single one I found foraging yesterday (she laid 6 eggs overnight). They all have sand. And walnuts and nyger seeds and discovered they like apple yesterday. Tubes laying on a heat cable
My question is. Will one of the queens eventually be killed? They are so rare here we don’t want to lose even one.
Should I remove one queen before workers hatch?
Any other ideas or tips would be greatly appreciated
Thank you


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#2 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted August 8 2019 - 12:43 PM

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I'm not sure these are polygynous, so I'd expect them to fight once workers arrive.
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#3 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted August 9 2019 - 10:35 AM

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They are, to my knowledge, not polygenous. Lots of Pogonomyrmex will perform pleometrosis however.
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#4 Offline Rstheant - Posted August 11 2019 - 10:34 AM

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They are, to my knowledge, not polygenous. Lots of Pogonomyrmex will perform pleometrosis however.


Just separate the queens once the get workers.
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#5 Offline MrPurpleB - Posted August 11 2019 - 10:47 AM

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I had a pogonomyrmex colony with two queens. The vendor told me to leave them alone because the workers were going to settle that dispute. From what I remember none of the queens were attacked even when they had their first workers. It was P.Californicus. I also killed the colony, so it was possible that the queens would have become more hostile towards each other with further development.

I think resource and space might be factor, I am still very new to this.
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#6 Offline Silq - Posted August 12 2019 - 7:41 AM

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I had a pogonomyrmex colony with two queens. The vendor told me to leave them alone because the workers were going to settle that dispute. From what I remember none of the queens were attacked even when they had their first workers. It was P.Californicus. I also killed the colony, so it was possible that the queens would have become more hostile towards each other with further development.

I think resource and space might be factor, I am still very new to this.

accidentally? I would hope.


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#7 Offline Reacker - Posted August 12 2019 - 7:45 AM

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They will dismember each other.



#8 Offline sweetgrass - Posted August 17 2019 - 7:25 AM

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One queen is dead.

I’ve separated the other pair.

#9 Offline Canadian anter - Posted August 17 2019 - 2:04 PM

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Uh guys for Pogonomyrmex is this number of eggs normal for a single queen

Yes those are both piles of the same queen

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#10 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 17 2019 - 5:33 PM

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Holy crap that is a TON of eggs!


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