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kulungu
6 years ago

According to my knowledge, the entire state dies as long as there is no substitute queen. This is because the workers are all infertilized, and only the queen is able to lay fertilized eggs and thus to provide new queens.

So now it is important whether or not the queen has produced a new one before her “destination”.

In your case, I’d wait and watch what happens. There’s nothing to say.

In any case, the people cannot decide themselves whether it is now a new queen or not.

https://www.ameisenwiki.de/index.php/Ein_Ameisenstaat_ist_keine_Monarchie

Andreleonhardt
5 years ago
Reply to  kulungu

Unfortunately, it is not quite true, usually with ants there is more talk of a people, state directly implies a hierarchy.

There are, in principle, monogyne and polygyne species, the polygyne species possess several queens who can also deposit eggs at the same time if one of them dies is no longer bad, which can either be replaced by adaptation or arise on the occurrence of alders directly sexual animals which, depending on the species, can already cope intranidal, thus an adoption is unnecessary.

It does not matter whether a queen has “newly produced”.

And in certain (single) cases, the “people” can very well determine whether it “produced” a new queen from the existing brood similar to bees. This is, for example, the case with Monomorium pharaonis, but as already said, not “standard”.

And no, even female workers can lay eggs depending on the type, because they are not sterile in all kinds and can also have completely trained ovarians. For example, here are various types that possess reproductive workers, Messor capitatus, Ooceraea biroi, Pristomyrmex pungens, Megalomyrmex sp., various or all types of the subfamily Ponerinae. All can be fertilized here or produce unfertilized by thelytoke parthenogenesis diploid eggs.

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Andreleonhardt
5 years ago

And I ask myself the question of where you have fire ants, or how you’re holding them, but you don’t necessarily sound in this respect.

To feed larvae doesn’t really work with ants but you can be lucky if there is already sex bully. Depending on the type, they can also cope with each other.

However, it makes me stubborn that you have “Fire ants” they do not happen in Germany. Trivial, however, the name of fire antise is technically incorrect, since various species of the genus Solenopsis spp. are described.