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L. flavus question

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#1 Offline Mettcollsuss - Posted September 19 2017 - 3:28 AM

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So while looking through pictures trying to ID my Lasius queen, I came across photos of L. flavus workers guarding what looked to be black eggs. Can someone please try to explain this? Thanks.

 

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#2 Offline CNewton - Posted September 21 2017 - 10:51 AM

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I might have accidentally stumbled on the answer. Those might be Cranefly eggs. The creepy, giant mosquito-looking bugs. I grabbed one today that was fat and thought I'd try it as a Camponotus meal. I cut off the abdomen and something very similar to those spilled out. Small, maybe 1mm x .25mm. Ovular. Black. I think craneflys even lay the eggs in the ground, which would make them easy for a subterranean species to hunt down. Highly nutritious, stores for a period of time, super abundant. Seems plausible.


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