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How to Make Queens Become Polygyne?

Started By AntPhycho , Aug 28 2017 5:40 PM

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#1 Offline AntPhycho - Posted August 28 2017 - 5:40 PM

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I have 3 fire ants queens all fertile, right now they all have separate brood and are in separate test tubes, I kinda want the queens to join forces to make a mega colony. Their species is solenopsis invicta.

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#2 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted August 28 2017 - 5:44 PM

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Hmm, with Invicta they are generally monogyne. They would stay polygynous for a bit but after tge first workers eclose, only one will sirvive. You could try catching some polygynous queens like pheidole, tapinoma, and whatnot.

Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
    consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
    and gathers its food at harvest.

#3 Offline AntPhycho - Posted August 28 2017 - 5:54 PM

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Hmmm, I caught a P. Rugosus but only one so I guess if solenopsis invicta isn't polygynous I guess I am out for owning polygyne colonies this year....

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