Just wondering if T. immigrans are polygynous as I have a queen already and wondering if I found more since they just flew if I could combine them and make a supercolony.
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Just wondering if T. immigrans are polygynous as I have a queen already and wondering if I found more since they just flew if I could combine them and make a supercolony.
No they aren't. Like Kiedeerk said, and from personal experience, they will stay together until the first workers arrive and then slaughter each other. In really rare cases, however, they will stay together forever.
Currently raising:
Myrmica Rubra (1 queen + ~5 workers)
Lasius Niger (single queen + ~90+ workers)
Lasius Neoniger (two single queen + brood)
Formica spp. (Queen [likely parasitic, needs brood])
Also keeping a friend's tetramorium immigrans for the foreseeable future. Thanks CoffeBlock!
Yes, like Stubyvast said in really rare cases they could be polygynous, but don't put them together in hopes of that chance occuring. I have done it in the past, and I severly regret killing poor ant queens due to my bad judgment.
Edited by AsdinAnts, June 4 2024 - 7:39 PM.
I caught 4 queens I found grouped together under a rock last year. They slowly eliminated one queen at a time until only one remained. This was over the span of about 3 months. For a large portion of that time they had both workers and multiple queens. I haven't tried mixing random queens together, but when I flipped the rock and saw them, they very clearly had chosen to huddle and stay together so I kept them that way to see how it would turn out.
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