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[Chall]

I recently collected 6 argentine and queens and 10 workers I kept them for 5 days to see what types of food they like...

I then wanted to see how the colony would react to being put right next to there original "wild" colony.

The wild colony found them in 12-13 minutes. They didn't care, they simply entered looked around and then left. Around 5 minutes after they left they came back with 6 workers and entered the colonies entrance 2 minutes after they entered they started taking all off the brood. And then they started killing the workers but the workers didn't fight back. Then they killed the queen's and left the bodies of them in there. Anyone know why they did that.

[drtrmiller]

Any time ants fight, it is because the smell is incompatible with the friendly colony scent. It is possible that the captive colony recognized the outside colony, but the outside colony did not recognize the captive colony. That would explain why the fight was one-sided.

Edited by drtrmiller, May 17 2016 - 11:56 AM.

[gcsnelling]

The ants in the picture appear to  be  Tapinoma.

[Confrere]

The ants in the picture appear to  be  Tapinoma.

 

The picture is his signature, not part of the post. 

[dspdrew]

 

The ants in the picture appear to  be  Tapinoma.

 

The picture is his signature, not part of the post. 

 

 

Had me too for a second.