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[Justicarab]

I noticed a few ants with eggs, but one of them had eggs slightly dispersed close to the damp cotton. does this say anything? is she not caring for them? every time i watch ant queen videos, i see the queen makes a pile of them. One of the queens has the eggs kinda all over the test tube. almost makes me think these aren't even eggs. but there wouldn't be white, tiny, rice looking specks in the test tube other than eggs right? i feel like they are way too small as well. or at least they seem to small in comparison to videos I've seen, the almost look like dandruff flakes but smaller. (solenopsis invicta BTW)

i can't take a clear enough picture of the eggs. My phone sucks.

Edited by Justicarab, September 26 2016 - 8:01 AM.

[kellakk]

Is that your picture? Because I see no eggs in that photo.

 

If your queen actually is scattering eggs all over the place, she will likely not produce a colony. All the queens I've kept that scattered eggs eventually died.

[drtrmiller]

Indeed, the dirt in the photo isn't going to hatch, sadly.

[Justicarab]

Is that your picture? Because I see no eggs in that photo.

 

If your queen actually is scattering eggs all over the place, she will likely not produce a colony. All the queens I've kept that scattered eggs eventually died.

 

no, this is not my picture, i found it on someone's gallery because it looks a lot like what i have. that is most unfortunate. i only have one queen that has her eggs (real eggs) in a pile. considering this is my first time raising ants. is it likely to get a colony from just one queen?

Indeed, the dirt in the photo isn't going to hatch, sadly.

if i had a better camera, i would show you what i am seeing but, ya. how did the dirt get in there? i had a clean sterile tube with nothing but the queen and water in it?

(FYI this is not my picture, it was the closest i could find to what i have.) but what kellakk said is most worrisome. because if what i got are eggs then she will probably die.

[Canadian anter]

Ummmm..... the one in the picture isn't a queen

[Justicarab]

Ummmm..... the one in the picture isn't a queen

it was not my pictures, I felt that the images particles were relativily similar in size to the particles in my queens test tube relative to the queen I have. I went ahead of taking off thatpicture because its causing confusion some how. I re checked and the are certainly not dirt. Is it possible to be ant waste?

My concern can be summed up like this.

The eggs seem to be very tiny. And 1 of my 3 queens that have laid, decided to spread out the eggs which makes me question if they are eggs at all

Edited by Justicarab, September 26 2016 - 8:13 AM.

[dermy]

To be honest even with a really small species [such as Myrmica] you can easily tell eggs apart from other stuff, and just like kellak said they almost always seem to put them into piles. I've never took a tally of "scattered eggs vs neatly piled eggs" so I'm not 100% sure [I think it'd be cool to see like a tally of successful queens that had nice piles vs messy piles but that seems like it might take a bit of work and time to complete]

[spider_creations]

I would not give up yet becuase I have had queens with scattered egg that ending up growing in to workers