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Brood boosting with different species

Started By Pumpkin_Loves_Ants , Aug 9 2019 3:43 PM

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#1 Offline Pumpkin_Loves_Ants - Posted August 9 2019 - 3:43 PM

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I was wondering what would happen if I add some other species of Tetramorium into a solo queen of a different Tetramorium species. Will she just eat them and provide more protein to her nanitics or will she adopt them into her colony and care for them?

Lasius Neoniger (Around 23ish workers)

Tetramorium Immigran (8 Workers)

Myrmica Queen (Not 100% on species)

Formica Subsericea (No workers)

#2 Offline Unfrozen - Posted August 9 2019 - 5:32 PM

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if the sp is similar today i added a lasius neoniger larvae from a dead young colony to a lasius americanus queen with her brood and in 5 seconds she grabbed it and rearranged it a few times and cleaned it