I caught 2 Pheidole bicarinata queens last night (yay!) and I was wanting to know whether or not they would do better together or alone?
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Pheidole bicarinata polygynous?
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Posted June 26 2019 - 3:38 AM
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Posted June 26 2019 - 5:04 AM
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Put them separate. They grow extremely quickly, and even if they were not polygynous, they would out grow a test tube in a few months.
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Posted June 26 2019 - 5:10 AM
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Put them separate. They grow extremely quickly, and even if they were polygynous, they would out grow a test tube in a few months.
Alright, will do!
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Posted June 26 2019 - 6:44 AM
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Good luck with your pheidole! I've been wanting some so best of luck.
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Posted June 26 2019 - 7:12 AM
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Good luck with your pheidole! I've been wanting some so best of luck.
Thank you!
They are one of my favorites along with temnothorax!
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Posted September 5 2019 - 6:50 AM
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Oki so my four queen Pheidole bicarinata colony has 35 workers (including 3 majors!) and a ton of brood....
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Posted September 5 2019 - 2:07 PM
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locally they aren't but some queens I caught that I think are bicar did well together. In possesion of Silq.
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Posted September 6 2019 - 5:13 AM
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They are probably a species complex, like dentata, certain populations seem to be polygynous while others arent
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Posted September 6 2019 - 5:17 AM
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They are probably a species complex, like dentata, certain populations seem to be polygynous while others arent
Yes! I was thinking about this the other day. I found five queens from an area in Nashville and my current four in Coopertown. The queens I got in West Nashville killed each other, but my queens that I got from Coopertown now have a thriving colony.
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Posted September 8 2019 - 7:04 PM
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Pheidole bicarinata are generally pleometrophic. The queens will cooperate during founding and into the first generation, but after a number of generations have eclosed the queens will fight/the workers will pick 1 queen and kill the rest. Some populations may be truly polygynous, but most have been recognized as pleometrophic.
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