This is a simple experiment done to see if a parasite queen can live with and raise a colony with False honeypot ants. This video is raw footage using a webcam. The footage starts about 2 minutes after taken out of a freezer.
Steps of the experiment:
caught the queen in tube A
caught the workers from a thriving colony in tube B
Placed both tubes together in a freezer for 3 minutes
prepared tube C for a founding chamber, complete with water
Took both tubes out of freezer and then put queen, then workers in tube C
Left them alone for an hour. (note i messed up and put a lid on tube C instead of cotton and had to replace during the video. i also rotated the tube a couple times to record more of the queen.)
After roughly an hour, i then attached tube C to a nest. the nest has a drop of pure honey in the nest.
recording is stopped due to me leaving for work
Edited by W1Z25, October 30 2016 - 7:50 PM.