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[MichiganAnts]

Species: Prenolepis imparis

 

Location found: in my driveway and around my police station

 

Age of colony: 2 days old

 

Queens: 6

 

Workers/nanitics: 0

 

Repletes: 0

 

**will post more info on the 2nd post, 1st post is just stats about the colony**

 

 

**will post more info on the 2nd post, 1st post is just stats about the colony**

Edited by MichiganAnts, April 11 2017 - 1:04 PM.

[MichiganAnts]

I was planning to catch Winter ants just to sell, but once i found out my friends I planned selling to caught tons of them i decided to keep them. I've never raised a queen from just a queen. That along with these being an uncommon species and and odd species to keep this will be a good test for me. I've even read they eat earthworms.. WHAT?!?! lol 

 

I've also never raised a multi-queen colony so this will be alot of fun i bet. Currently they are just sitting in my desk drawer and will stay there until workers arrive. My thoughts are they out of 6 queen 4 should be fine. I'm betting one will die for no reason and maybe one is infertile, however all of them were caught without wings and i've seen at least half cleaning gasters. That's a good sing they are mated.

[Canadian anter]

Northern Prenolepis are usually monogynous. Another thing is that they're actually pretty common in many places. Also, many species of ants will accept earthworms

[MichiganAnts]

Northern Prenolepis are usually monogynous. Another thing is that they're actually pretty common in many places. Also, many species of ants will accept earthworms

anything else you wanna shoot down? lol and all the ant keepers i know here are doing poly winter ant colonies

[Alabama Anter]

Northern Prenolepis are usually monogynous. Another thing is that they're actually pretty common in many places. Also, many species of ants will accept earthworms

anything else you wanna shoot down? lol and all the ant keepers i know here are doing poly winter ant colonies

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