It was hot out, so chances are the smaller ant, (with the smaller heat resistance) boiled on the inside as it attacked her.
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It was hot out, so chances are the smaller ant, (with the smaller heat resistance) boiled on the inside as it attacked her.
That thing is probably so dry by now, a slight touch and it'll burst into a cloud of dust.
The good man is the friend of all living things. - Gandhi
Definitely.
I have 13 queens left altogether, with only 6 out of the original 23 seeming fertile.
Here is a video of both alate and dealate of this species.
Video Update: 10/18/2014
Edited by Gregory2455, October 18 2014 - 8:22 PM.
Update: 11/3/2014
This update is to get everyone on track.
Currently: I know 5 queens are fertile, as I have seen brood greater than eggs.
3 of these have workers, while the other two recently stress ate their brood again.
The alate in the second to last video has died.
The overall queen count is down to 10, but I have put every single one- worker or no worker onto a semi-clausteral life style. NO MORE STARVED QUEENS.
In other news, the bejeweled queen is no longer bejeweled. I found the Solenopsis xyloni worker in her midden yesterday. I took it out to be preserved, but here is a picture of it first.
Hmmm...
Update: 11/8/2014
One of the three queens with a worker died today. I will just give the lone worker to another queen. If she dies, she dies.
You really like that dead worker, huh?
She hung on for a while.
The good man is the friend of all living things. - Gandhi
Yeah, but I am mourning the other queen with worker that died. I am pretty sure she was the first one to get a worker too.
So do you only have 1 or 2.
I only have two with workers.
In other news on my bad luck with this species- I FOUND MITES ON THE EX-BEJEWELED QUEEN AND HER WORKER!!! WHYYYYYYY???!!!
Edited by Gregory2455, November 18 2014 - 8:06 PM.
Here is the worker of the bejeweled queen. I do not know why, but for some reason she seems to have stayed a callow worker, even though she is six and a half weeks old already. Is she a hybrid or are the mites to blame for this too? (Even though today is the first day I saw mites.)
You can clearly see mites around her eye.
Edited by Gregory2455, November 18 2014 - 11:15 PM.
From some documentaries I've seen, they put an insect in a tiny container and put carbon dioxide into it which will pass the insect out for a moment. They won't die. They will just pass out for few minutes.
That's your window of opportunity. Put it on a microscope and carefully remove mites.
You can carefully pin half of the ant with cotton against the wall of the test tube, leaving the half with the mites free. Takes a bit to get right, and some time to get the mites off.
If they were a species that hibernated in the cold, you could stick them in the fridge.
"Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astound the rest." -- Samuel Clemens
They will still slow down considerably if refrigerated. They will not die.
Half of the ant? Both of them are covered...You can carefully pin half of the ant with cotton against the wall of the test tube, leaving the half with the mites free. Takes a bit to get right, and some time to get the mites off.
If they were a species that hibernated in the cold, you could stick them in the fridge.
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