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[Tanks]

I want to give honey pot workers to another colony of pots and someone suggested that I do vinegar dipping. How would I do that?

[CAantz]

I’ve never done this before, but I think you can use distilled white vinegar to do it. You just have to dunk in a worker for a few seconds, dry it off and give it to the colony to accept. I think that doing a bunch at a time might cause the colony to attack the new workers so do it slowly.

[DevinTheAntKeeper]

I want to give honey pot workers to another colony of pots and someone suggested that I do vinegar dipping. How would I do that?

wdym by giving them? Like brood or workers

[Tanks]

 

I want to give honey pot workers to another colony of pots and someone suggested that I do vinegar dipping. How would I do that?

wdym by giving them? Like brood or workers

 

Workers

[martin_]

Bert Hölldobler (i think he used Camponotus for this) had success in cooling down a colony to complete immobility and then adding a foreign queen. After warming the animals, the queen was adopted. 

Maybe you can do a similar experiment. 

Take workers from both colonies, cool them briefly above freezing and slowly rewarm them together.

[Locness]

If it's your only colony and they're in their founding stage, I don't know if I'd experiment with it. Transferring brood is enough so you don't disturb them too much.

[Tanks]

So I used some white vinegar to transfer the workers to the other colony and it worked!