At my new school there were some colonies of Tetramroium bicarinatum. I did some research into the species and found out that they inbreed. So over the last few months I've been looking for queens, and it's winter now and I haven't had any luck yet.
So I have some questions about how T. bicarinatum nuptial flights work:
1. Do they even have nuptial flights, or do they split by budding?
2. If they do have nuptial flights, when do queens fly?
3. If I found an established colony (the ones at school were small and have since died out) would there be queens outside the nest, foraging in trails? I've seen this in captive colonies.
Once I get my hands on this species I'm gonna set up a big AntsScandinavia Messor barbarus style setup (cos we don't talk about AntsCanada) and I could probably even keep Dorylines if I wanted to, because T. bicarinatum colonies grow so fast I could just put a test tube in their outworld and feed it to the Dorylines and they're invasive.
Thanks,
Leptomyrmx
