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#1 Offline smares - Posted August 30 2021 - 3:33 PM

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Do you ever just stick your larvae in a drop of sugar water? Assuming of course that you are a P. Occidentalis queen. I've seen this happen twice now and was wondering if anyone else has seen this? I especially thought larvae just ate protein.
I give me founding queens a drop a sugar water every other day and 2 different queens have placed their larvae in the drop I put on the wall of their enclosure.
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#2 Offline eea - Posted August 30 2021 - 3:40 PM

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this is how queens teach their workers how to swim


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#3 Offline smares - Posted August 30 2021 - 5:03 PM

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this is how queens teach their workers how to swim


Or she could have been teaching them how to "sugar coat" things. Lol get it?!
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#4 Offline Formiga - Posted August 30 2021 - 5:39 PM

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Those are some sweet parental skills!

 

All the other queens around must be saying: "Your kids are so sweet!"  :lol:


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#5 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 31 2021 - 12:33 PM

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I’m pretty sure they will sometimes feed the larvae sugars as well. I remember seeing journals on here where the ants were fed colored sugar water and it could be seen inside larvae.
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#6 Offline KadinB - Posted August 31 2021 - 4:19 PM

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I’m pretty sure they will sometimes feed the larvae sugars as well. I remember seeing journals on here where the ants were fed colored sugar water and it could be seen inside larvae.

Yea that is true. I see it all the time with my ants. I use all sorts of colors like green, blue pink and more


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#7 Offline nurbs - Posted August 31 2021 - 7:23 PM

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Do you ever just stick your larvae in a drop of sugar water? Assuming of course that you are a P. Occidentalis queen. I've seen this happen twice now and was wondering if anyone else has seen this? I especially thought larvae just ate protein.
I give me founding queens a drop a sugar water every other day and 2 different queens have placed their larvae in the drop I put on the wall of their enclosure.


This made me smile.
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