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Queen Ants and Water Feeders

Started By PDuncan67 , Feb 16 2024 9:22 AM

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#1 Offline PDuncan67 - Posted February 16 2024 - 9:22 AM

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I am getting ready to move my Camponotus floridanus colony to a nest in a few weeks.  
I have seen several setups that use water feeders as the sole water source.
I am in that situation: the only room in my outworld for a water source is a feeder tower like the one in the picture.
Will my queen have touble drinking from it?  I don't see how she could possibly fit her head in there.
Will the other ants feed her water by trophallaxis?

 

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Edited by PDuncan67, February 16 2024 - 9:23 AM.

Location: West Tennessee, USA
Colonies: Lasius neoniger, Messor barbarus, Camponotus floridanus

#2 Offline Artisan_Ants - Posted February 16 2024 - 9:29 AM

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Yeah, in trophallaxis, if workers feed the queen, then water will be transported along with whatever their recent feeding food was (l believe this because I had a P. imparis colony that lost all workers besides one, and the queen was still alive) so yes that’s fine. As long as they have some water source available for colony and her, the colony feed her the water. I mean; then what are workers for?
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Keeping:

5x - S. molesta (founding)       2x - C. pennsylvanicus (colonies)   

4x - C. chromaiodes (colonies)                                       

4x - T. immigrans (founding queens and colonies) 

1x - F. subsericea (founding)

 

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#3 Offline Mushu - Posted February 17 2024 - 1:33 AM

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Yeah she lives like a queen(no pun intended), so she gets everything she needs from workers, including water.


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