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#1 Offline Temperateants - Posted April 5 2020 - 6:46 AM

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Has anyone here experienced die offs in Formica, and instead of discarding the dead like normal ants, they rip it apart and throw the corpse pieces everywhere? I've been feeding my formica fruit flies, which they love, and my colonies have started making eggs.


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#2 Online RushmoreAnts - Posted April 5 2020 - 7:40 AM

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How old are the workers? Could they just be dying nanitics?

"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

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Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis


#3 Offline Temperateants - Posted April 5 2020 - 8:35 AM

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Yes, they are nanitics, it's just very nasty how they dismember the dead instead of just throwing it away


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#4 Offline Manitobant - Posted April 5 2020 - 8:42 PM

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Yes, they are nanitics, it's just very nasty how they dismember the dead instead of just throwing it away

nanitics are always very sloppy and dirty in my experience.
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#5 Offline Temperateants - Posted April 6 2020 - 6:15 AM

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My tetras are a lot easier to care for now that they have new, bigger and smarter workers.


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