Yay, Ant Invasion in! Mind = blown. I did once have a founding colony with a dozen workers face disaster when their queen died. Out of desperation, I introduced the workers to a replacement queen and was stunned when it actually worked and the colony itself didn't die off. I'd always thought that was a complete fluke and something that never really happened in real life. Yet again, it's always an education watching this channel!
Recently I introduced around 20 tubes of rhytidoponera metallica founding queens together. Largest tube had 6 workers, 10 tubes with 1-3 workers and 10 with only cocoons/eggs/larvae.. its been about a month and they have been going really well.
@@ant.invasion all my rhytidoponera tubes were several months old at the time of combining them. I was getting to the point of having to either give them away or release them. Tbh I wasn't expecting the success rate on them when first captured hence why I had so many. One night I was cleaning some tubes and had 2 tubes get in contact and the interaction was similar to this video except they just sat and talked to each other lol... they were so chilled I just kept adding them together. Tonight has been the first time I actually checked the tube itself and they are going very well. Not sure on exact count but roughly 23-25 queens and similar worker count.
I did have some casualties but very minimal.. I tried to seperate the aggro and reintroduce them later which seemed to work initially.. in total I lost only 1 queen and 1 worker(sofar) 3 queens and 2 workers stayed out of the tube (together) but within the first week they all joined the rest
Runts as in like smaller workers from time to time yes that's correct heh my 8 queen colony with 1000 workers 1-3 Queens produce smaller workers from time to time
That’s a very good point your bring up, I personally think for species like this it’s perfectly fine, only because theyd do something similar in the wild! What do you think?
ive seen these EVERYWHERE i thought they were workers edit.tho not everywhere but every day i guess i thought they were majors since there larger than workers
mmmm it really depends like for me here in Australia I think you shouldn’t keep non native ants, but for other countries if you have the right permits and they won’t completely take over the natural ecosystem it can be fine in certain situations!
Hey bud. Interesting video, but please try and avoid click baity titles and screen shots. I left ants Canada ages ago because he went from providing useful information about ants and any keeping to trying to copy the styling and drama of reality TV. Not only that, When people search for a video on adding workers to a different queen they won't find your video....
Yeah well said, and I agree with you! I usually try and avoid clickbaity titles and thumbnails so perhaps I should make a proper tutorial on this subject as well in the future? Thanks dude!
