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[Leo]

7/25/18

 

Had waaay too many camponotus nicobarensis and pseudoirritans so I did an experiment. I placed a camponotus nicobarensis(with brood) into the fridge and a small colony (5 workers) of camponotus pseudoirritans into the fridge aswell, then when I decided they were mellow, I poured them into the same tube. I am not sure if it was my body heat or whatever, because as soon as the ants connected, they started fighting. I stuck them back into the freezer and waited a while. After a minute or so I placed them in the fridge. Where the two queens woke again and began slo-mo fighting. I noticed that the nicobarensis queen actually lost a leg  . But soon they slowed down when the workers came to. At first there was some tugging and snapping of mandibles but they have calmed down and both queens are now sitting on the same brood pile. occasionally when a pseudoirritans worker gets too close to the nicobarensis queen, she lets her know with a snap of her mandibles. She has calmed as well now. We'll see how this goes.

Edited by Leo, August 25 2018 - 5:22 AM.

[Antking117]

I kind of want to see a video of this all happening. Sounds cool, keep us posted.

[Leo]

8/25/18

 

4 eggs, not sure if they were laid before the experiment though.

[AntsAreUs]

Quite interesting. I kind of want to test this with some ants of my own.

[Superant33]

I don’t think this will end well

[Leo]

I don’t think this will end well

might as well give it a try...

[sirjordanncurtis]

I read something about a bunch of queens of different species living in different parts of bamboo chambers, and some of them forming "alliances"

 

As long as you don't give the colony room for conflict (lack of resource, space, etc.), I think they'll be fine.

[anttics]

Interesting. I have a few camponotus colonies. As well. Keep us post it. On the progress