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#1 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted July 28 2015 - 2:55 AM

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:wtf: This was a Solenopsis amblychila queen before I found this. She only had one host worker, which was tending to the host brood when I found her like this... :lol:



#2 Offline Herdo - Posted July 28 2015 - 4:34 AM

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I have no idea what happened, but that is pretty crazy.  Was the host worker of the same species or were you trying to pull one over on them? :D



#3 Offline James C. Trager - Posted July 28 2015 - 6:20 AM

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Looks like she may have been parasitized. Did you find a small gnat-like fly in the container?


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#4 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted July 28 2015 - 12:14 PM

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Looks like she may have been parasitized. Did you find a small gnat-like fly in the container?

Hmmm... I did not think of that. I may still have not washed this out, so I will go check.



#5 Offline Mauritaniants - Posted August 7 2015 - 9:10 PM

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Hmmm... Do you have relatives that don't support your ant hobby?
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