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Started By Vendayn , Jan 17 2016 12:29 PM

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#21 Offline Vendayn - Posted January 27 2016 - 6:50 PM

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#23 Offline Vendayn - Posted January 27 2016 - 7:22 PM

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#24 Offline Vendayn - Posted January 30 2016 - 2:32 PM

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#25 Offline Vendayn - Posted January 30 2016 - 7:30 PM

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#26 Offline dspdrew - Posted January 30 2016 - 9:26 PM

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I see them do weird things to brood all the time. Sometimes it looks like they are even eating them. I wouldn't worry about it, unless they continue to do it to every single one, and the colony stops growing.


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#27 Offline Vendayn - Posted January 30 2016 - 9:34 PM

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#28 Offline Vendayn - Posted January 30 2016 - 9:58 PM

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#29 Offline dspdrew - Posted January 30 2016 - 10:05 PM

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Like I said, they are always doing strange things that don't make sense to us. There might be something wrong with the brood they are killing. I would just let them do their thing and wait for new brood to be produced. Pretty much every colony I have ever had produced a LOT.


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#31 Offline Vendayn - Posted January 31 2016 - 12:13 PM

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#32 Offline Mdrogun - Posted January 31 2016 - 12:36 PM

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Well, they stopped killing the pupae and larvae. Dunno why they did that, but Drew was right, it was just a strange occurrence. Maybe the pupae there was something wrong with them. I just got really worried is all, since never saw that before and it was half their brood.

The brood probably got damaged in transport from Drew to you.


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#33 Offline dspdrew - Posted January 31 2016 - 5:01 PM

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Think about that civil war one of my colonies had a while back. There were ant body parts EVERYWHERE, and they bounced right back in two months. I have disturbed the hell out of them, and my other colonies since then, and have never seen another thing like that. It's really hard to know what is going through their little brains.


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can you take some pictures?


#36 Offline Vendayn - Posted February 5 2016 - 11:12 PM

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#37 Offline honourable - Posted February 6 2016 - 10:03 AM

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i moved the fungus out of the test tube into an acrylic box with just a moist cotton ball inside and the fungus seems to be growing fine. the container only has 1 hole on the bottom and it's capped at the top.

they seriously like dried rose petals.


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