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[Froggy]

I caught a couple S. amblychila queens a couple of days ago, and I haven't been able to find any S. xyloni brood, I have one S. xyloni queen with nanitics (Callows?):

 

and heres the parasitic queen:

 

 

Someone on the Ants and Antkeeping discord brought up that I could introduce the parasitic queen to the S. xyloni queen and see if anything would happen, but I'm not exactly sure what to do, I've already looked for S. xyloni brood but have only found workers from lifting up pavers, any ideas on what I should do?

Edited by Froggy, August 9 2020 - 9:19 AM.

[Manitobant]

Just give her some of your xyloni queens brood. These guys produce tons of it so it shouldn't set them back.

[Froggy]

Just give her some of your xyloni queens brood. These guys produce tons of it so it shouldn't set them back.

I've heard that brood boosting hasn't worked in the past, do you know of anyone that has successfully got S. amblychila brood before?

[Manitobant]

Just give her some of your xyloni queens brood. These guys produce tons of it so it shouldn't set them back.

I've heard that brood boosting hasn't worked in the past, do you know of anyone that has successfully got S. amblychila brood before?

drew has, with the brood boosting method.


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Edited by Manitobant, August 9 2020 - 10:30 AM.

[M_Ants]

I just got some eggs from my queen with one host worker.

[CheetoLord02]

I caught 2 S. amblychila queens this year and they did not care for host pupae. Unfortunately it seems that introducing them to live hosts is the only option.

[Froggy]

I caught 2 S. amblychila queens this year and they did not care for host pupae. Unfortunately it seems that introducing them to live hosts is the only option.

So callows?

[M_Ants]

Yeah.

[AntsDakota]

Seems like all the xyloni's workers are callows.