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PirateChef's Tetramorium Journal

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#1 Offline piratechef - Posted June 19 2018 - 11:49 AM

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Hello all I have caught three Tetramorium queens so far this season, I wasnt going to make a journal until their workers started to arrive. But I can across a grouping of pupae while anting the other day and thought I would try my hand at brood boosting.

June 5th queen size shot
pavement Ant nest2
pavement Ant nest
queen A Egg shot

 

 

So after collecting some of the pupae brood boosted my experimental queen, I'm calling queen c for now, with some great success.

Picture when I just added the pupae, I'm guessing it was around 20-25
queen C brood boost #0
 
queen C brood boost #1
This was after this first night i woke up and found one them had enclosed and was helping her rearrange the nest
 
queen C brood boost #3
 
queen C Brood boost #6
The next day when more started to enclose I fed them some raw honey and some frozen fruit flies
queen C brood boost #8
queen C
Now they have around 10 workers total and are loving the food I gave them, the queen already has laid more eggs, her initial eggs are now larva. After the rest of the pupae enclose I should be able to move them into a Formicarium finally
I'm so excited :D
I just wanted to say thank you all for your help on here, I'm having a great first season anting. I have 5 queens now and 3 different species. :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

 






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