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Posted July 10 2021 - 11:46 PM
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Hi!
I was just curious if there are any charts/lists/topics that show how fast colonies of different species grow up to a certain point, e.g. average time for a colony to grow from a single queen to 100 workers?
Or if there are some articles/topics where at least all the fastest and slowest growing species are listed...
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Posted July 11 2021 - 12:04 AM
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There are no such things because colony growth depends on multiple factors such as temperature, humidity, nutrients, etc.
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Posted July 11 2021 - 7:42 AM
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Yeah, it's obvious, but I don't think that you'd argue that Tetramorium sp. grow way faster than many camponotus sp. almost irregardless of nutrients and exact temperature.There are no such things because colony growth depends on multiple factors such as temperature, humidity, nutrients, etc.
Edited by Max_Connor, July 11 2021 - 7:42 AM.
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Posted July 11 2021 - 9:23 AM
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Edited by Kaelwizard, July 11 2021 - 9:23 AM.
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Posted July 11 2021 - 4:49 PM
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Well there really isn’t. That was the point of what Zeiss said. The care sheets on the forum can give you an idea, but nothing overly specific.
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Posted July 11 2021 - 5:29 PM
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Honestly, if you were able to control things like temperature, egg to worker time could be pretty easily monitored. Especially in founding queens where food isn't necessarily a factor. Recently a heated Liometopum luctuosum queen had an egg to worker of only 20 days in nanitics; the fastest I've ever seen. The issue is to get consistent numbers you'd need large sample groups, a number of queens kept at varying temperatures, and probably at least 3 queens per temperature level. However growth rate as an established colony is practically impossible to guage scientifically.
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Posted July 11 2021 - 9:54 PM
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Posted July 11 2021 - 10:35 PM
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You might try looking up journals at a university library, they have access to all or most research papers and you can just pull them up online. All these journals have a pay walls otherwise.
To get around the paywalls, most of the time professors will just give you the PDF if you email them.
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Posted July 12 2021 - 12:58 AM
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You might try looking up journals at a university library, they have access to all or most research papers and you can just pull them up online. All these journals have a pay walls otherwise.
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