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Care Sheet - Prenolepis imparis

prenolepis impais ant care ant keeping

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#21 Offline antsandmore - Posted March 26 2021 - 7:30 AM

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This will help alot. I just caught 2 mated queens and I was wondering how to care for them....now I do.

how do you know they're mated?


Ants I am keeping:

 none for now, planning on being more active this year


#22 Offline Antcatcherpro3 - Posted March 26 2021 - 8:00 AM

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I saw the males on their abdomens.



#23 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted March 26 2021 - 8:16 AM

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I saw the males on their abdomens.

I caught a queen who was mating a couple years ago, but I tried to mover her to a test tube instead of a vial with sand and well... she didn't survive the process.



#24 Offline Antcatcherpro3 - Posted March 26 2021 - 9:31 AM

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I made a meme ant care sheet for argentine ants lol.



#25 Offline Chickalo - Posted March 26 2021 - 10:42 AM

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if i find multiple queens should I risk polygynous or be safe with mono



#26 Offline Antcatcherpro3 - Posted March 26 2021 - 10:43 AM

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You can risk.



#27 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 26 2021 - 11:04 AM

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if i find multiple queens should I risk polygynous or be safe with mono

I'm having some good luck with three-queen-trios right now, and all of them have eggs.


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#28 Offline AleeGuy - Posted March 26 2021 - 11:20 AM

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if i find multiple queens should I risk polygynous or be safe with mono

I would say mono is more risky than poly(jk) :lol: . Prenos do really good in poly colonies since they are extremely friendly with other queens so there is really minor chance of them to kill each other.


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