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[cooIboyJ]

One of the queens is dead now!!!! The other is not harmed at all. Also, I now have a major!!!!!!!!!!!! I was shining my phone light on the test tube to see inside and out of the hole in the dirt where the queen and brood are, a major came out! I saw the major a couple days after the ants ate up a whole mealworm (large size, but I don't think that the meal worm was fully grown). The major has not come out of the test tube yet.

[AntsGodzilla]

That's awesome! Majors of any species are great.

[GOCAMPONOTUS]

One of the queens is dead now!!!! The other is not harmed at all. Also, I now have a major!!!!!!!!!!!! I was shining my phone light on the test tube to see inside and out of the hole in the dirt where the queen and brood are, a major came out! I saw the major a couple days after the ants ate up a whole mealworm (large size, but I don't think that the meal worm was fully grown). The major has not come out of the test tube yet.

Could it be a media at this size?

[AntsTx]

Could it be a media at this size?

 

 

 

Could be. I hade some sad-looking "majors" at 30 workers

[cooIboyJ]

I found a colony of Solenopsis invicta at a skate park and they had a ton of majors all eating chocolate on the ground. The majors were HUGE, probably around the size of a queen. I have now realized that I do not have majors but soldiers. 

[cooIboyJ]

I have been wondering about why my ants are not very active (they do not even come out of the test tube) so I wondered if they were hibernating, but that would go against what most people told me. They told me that the ants won't hibernate. but after a bit of messing with them I found out that they are just resting, not hibernating. I think that this is because they do not find much food in the winter, so they do not expect food, and also my lack of feeding has probably convinced them of resting also

[GOCAMPONOTUS]

I found a colony of Solenopsis invicta at a skate park and they had a ton of majors all eating chocolate on the ground. The majors were HUGE, probably around the size of a queen. I have now realized that I do not have majors but soldiers. 

The term Majors and soldiers are the same thing but Majors is like more scientific.

[cooIboyJ]

 

I found a colony of Solenopsis invicta at a skate park and they had a ton of majors all eating chocolate on the ground. The majors were HUGE, probably around the size of a queen. I have now realized that I do not have majors but soldiers. 

The term Majors and soldiers are the same thing but Majors is like more scientific.

 

Then maybe not majors but sub-majors.

[GOCAMPONOTUS]

To be honest i would just call them majors and that's it.

[cooIboyJ]

I have some sad news... The queen of the colony has died. I found her in the test tube dead. After dumbing the colony out of their test tube and into the outworld to make sure, I noticed a very large major(I don't know the size in millimeters). Their were about 40 workers, 10 soldiers (or small majors), and one large major. I have cleaned out their outworld and dumped the queen less colony in the backyard.