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[forest]

what do i do with the elates that the colony produces???

[Formicarius]

If they're from a species and a queen that you caught in your area you can just open a window and let them fly.

If not the colony will just kill them after a while.

[Bracchymyrmex]

The colony will not kill alates, that is just wrong. If conditions do not favor a nuptial flight (i.e. they cannot escape their outworld) the alates essentially become workers, they shed their wings and stay in their nest. 

[Spamdy]

They will just walk around aimlessly in the out world, don't worry about it, just don't let them escape into your house.

[Michaelofvancouver]

First off, congratulation on managing to raise a colony until it produces alates! I have yet to own a colony of that size haha.

 

Anyways, as the other users before me have stated, the alates will likely just wander around the outworld before most of them die during the winter.

[forest]

I don't have elates I'm just asking what if because i want to avoid all major bad things and keep a colony instead of killing it

 

First off, congratulation on managing to raise a colony until it produces alates! I have yet to own a colony of that size haha.

 

Anyways, as the other users before me have stated, the alates will likely just wander around the outworld before most of them die during the winter.

[Spamdy]

Forest what colony do you own?

[gcsnelling]

The colony will not kill alates, that is just wrong. If conditions do not favor a nuptial flight (i.e. they cannot escape their outworld) the alates essentially become workers, they shed their wings and stay in their nest. 

Then when they become a drain on colony resources they will be killed, esp. the males.