Pictures:Tetramorium Fungus https://imgur.com/a/Q64FY
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, Oct 4 2017 1:13 PM
Best Answer Batspiderfish , October 4 2017 - 2:53 PM
You can't really identify fungi without a microscope and sometimes chemical testing. As just a guess, this looks like something that consumed the queen after she had become weakened or had died for other reasons.
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Posted October 4 2017 - 1:13 PM
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I found a tetramorium queen on September First and thought, "Hey that's weird" so I decided to keep her. She seemed fine, even laid what I thought was eggs. When I checked on her 2 weeks later she was dead and it looked like this fungus explode inside her and was starting to come out. It was even coming out of her gaster! I am just curious on what it is.
Pictures:Tetramorium Fungus https://imgur.com/a/Q64FY
Pictures:Tetramorium Fungus https://imgur.com/a/Q64FY
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Posted October 4 2017 - 1:46 PM
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Some of my dead queens have done that.
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Posted October 4 2017 - 2:53 PM
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You can't really identify fungi without a microscope and sometimes chemical testing. As just a guess, this looks like something that consumed the queen after she had become weakened or had died for other reasons.
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Posted October 8 2017 - 3:36 PM
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Ay, Batspiderfish is right, this happened when some of my crematogaster queens died during hibernation
Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)
6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
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