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[Unfrozen]

I couldn't find my last test tube. Later I was walking down a sidewalk and remembered it's in my bag do I check and I have it I look down and see a tetramorium queen (first catch of this year) moving in circles. This queen has something (I presume it's a worker that attacked it) Stuck to her leg one of her etana were gone and she has double walking and moving around in general. Can this queen still raise a colony and would brood boosting her (like 5 pupea) help her out

[AntPhycho]

I couldn't find my last test tube. Later I was walking down a sidewalk and remembered it's in my bag do I check and I have it I look down and see a tetramorium queen (first catch of this year) moving in circles. This queen has something (I presume it's a worker that attacked it) Stuck to her leg one of her etana were gone and she has double walking and moving around in general. Can this queen still raise a colony and would brood boosting her (like 5 pupea) help her out

Usually, if a leg is injured or missing she will most likely die. Just yesterday I found a S. xyloni queen with a segment of her leg missing, I found her dead the next day. 

[Canadian anter]

I couldn't find my last test tube. Later I was walking down a sidewalk and remembered it's in my bag do I check and I have it I look down and see a tetramorium queen (first catch of this year) moving in circles. This queen has something (I presume it's a worker that attacked it) Stuck to her leg one of her etana were gone and she has double walking and moving around in general. Can this queen still raise a colony and would brood boosting her (like 5 pupea) help her out

Unless she was stung several times she should be fine. I've raised many colonies with damaged queens

[TennesseeAnts]

I couldn't find my last test tube. Later I was walking down a sidewalk and remembered it's in my bag do I check and I have it I look down and see a tetramorium queen (first catch of this year) moving in circles. This queen has something (I presume it's a worker that attacked it) Stuck to her leg one of her etana were gone and she has double walking and moving around in general. Can this queen still raise a colony and would brood boosting her (like 5 pupea) help her out

Unless she was stung several times she should be fine. I've raised many colonies with damaged queens

Me as well.

[RushmoreAnts]

Yet if a queen loses an antennae, she will most likely live.