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[Puddingtempest]

Wondering why my Myrmica brought eggs to the outworld garbage area.  

What can cause this?  I still see larvae in the nest and the ants are behaving normally, they are kept at room temperature.  Could this be caused by too wet or dry conditions?

[Full_Frontal_Yeti]

Wondering why my Myrmica brought eggs to the outworld garbage area.  

What can cause this?  I still see larvae in the nest and the ants are behaving normally, they are kept at room temperature.  Could this be caused by too wet or dry conditions?

I would generally assume the ants choose whatever they find to be optimal conditions.
But i do note that within my colony, they do not all agree about where that is all the time.
And so there are a few brood items often kept in smaller groups away from where the bulk of the brood is kept.
And pretty consistently a few brood items just being shuffled around from place to place by a few ants that seem to have their own ideas about things.

 

With my own colony i also note that pupae, younger larvae and older larvae, each tend to be kept apart in their own spaces where humidity and temperatures are different.
But will all be brought to one location if the nest is disturbed a bit too much. Slowly spreading back around the nest over the next few hours as they calm down.

[Puddingtempest]

 

Wondering why my Myrmica brought eggs to the outworld garbage area.  

What can cause this?  I still see larvae in the nest and the ants are behaving normally, they are kept at room temperature.  Could this be caused by too wet or dry conditions?

I would generally assume the ants choose whatever they find to be optimal conditions.
But i do note that within my colony, they do not all agree about where that is all the time.
And so there are a few brood items often kept in smaller groups away from where the bulk of the brood is kept.
And pretty consistently a few brood items just being shuffled around from place to place by a few ants that seem to have their own ideas about things.

 

With my own colony i also note that pupae, younger larvae and older larvae, each tend to be kept apart in their own spaces where humidity and temperatures are different.
But will all be brought to one location if the nest is disturbed a bit too much. Slowly spreading back around the nest over the next few hours as they calm down.

 

 

yes they definitely store eggs, larvae and cocoons in different places, but this batch of eggs has been in the corner of the outworld totally exposed and unattended in the light for 2 days now, so I'm suspecting they are confirmed for garbage.  Also unusually though there is a nanitic in the outworld. I haven't seen it near the eggs or attending to the eggs but it's weird to see it there.  (colony size is around 50)