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Refrigerate tetramorium queen

Started By Andrewslatter , Dec 5 2019 12:33 AM

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#1 Offline Andrewslatter - Posted December 5 2019 - 12:33 AM

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Have a tube with brood, nanitics and a dead queen and a tube with a queen without brood or ants. How do I refrigerate to join two tubes into one?

#2 Online ANTdrew - Posted December 5 2019 - 3:11 AM

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I don’t foresee this going very smoothly with Tetramorium.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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#3 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted December 5 2019 - 6:57 AM

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I saw what I THINK is Tetramorium that was brood boosted and apparently the boosted nanitics turned on the queen, or so I was told.

I'm not sure it's Tetramorium but that's my best guess.


Edited by OhNoNotAgain, December 5 2019 - 6:58 AM.

Formiculture Journals::

Veromessor pergandei, andrei; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis; also separate journal: Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola

Liometopum occidentale;  Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive)

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus and californicus (inactive)

Tetramorium sp.

Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis

 

Isopods: A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus

Spoods: Phidippus sp.

#4 Offline Andrewslatter - Posted December 6 2019 - 12:22 AM

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Conclusion it was a fail, freezer slowed them to a stop but upon warm up the attack began and it was over... taps roll on :(

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#5 Online ANTdrew - Posted December 6 2019 - 3:15 AM

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If you care for them well, Tetramorium grow so fast that short cuts like these simply aren’t necessary.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.
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