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#1 Offline disasterants - Posted May 1 2018 - 1:08 PM

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17 days ago, i caught a winter ant queen and today, i caught another one under a rock with a damaged gaster and mixed them together. i'm already having second thoughts, was this a stupid idea?

 

 

the queen had a lot of scattered brood and was sitting on top of a pile of 4 or 5, a few minutes after putting the other queen in, all of the scattered brood had "disappeared" which made me doubt my choice even more... 



#2 Offline disasterants - Posted May 1 2018 - 5:03 PM

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the "chubby" queen ant that I had for a while seemed to be feeding the skinny ant which i just caught but at the same time pushing her away from her eggs...



#3 Offline sirjordanncurtis - Posted May 1 2018 - 5:14 PM

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I wouldn't be to scared about it. If the eggs really did disappear, then they were most likely eaten by your original queen, which isn't too bad, as she can cycle back what she eats to lay new eggs. You might want to put honey inside for the newer queen to focus on so that she doesn't bother or stress your original one out too much. Give them time to get used to each other, I doubt any of them would get killed. If you put food inside for the new queen, she won't have to feed off of or rely on the care of the first queen.



#4 Offline disasterants - Posted May 2 2018 - 3:09 AM

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I wouldn't be to scared about it. If the eggs really did disappear, then they were most likely eaten by your original queen, which isn't too bad, as she can cycle back what she eats to lay new eggs. You might want to put honey inside for the newer queen to focus on so that she doesn't bother or stress your original one out too much. Give them time to get used to each other, I doubt any of them would get killed. If you put food inside for the new queen, she won't have to feed off of or rely on the care of the first queen.

oh good. I think that she piled a decent amount of them up under her anyway. 






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