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Polygyny In Ant Colonies

Leave a Comment / 22nd January 2020 / Myrm / Ant Information

All ant colonies have at least one egg-laying queen. She is an essential member of the family. Without her there would be no colony. Some species of ant have only one queen in each nest. Others may have several, even numbering in the hundreds. Colonies/species that have only one queen are known as monogynous. Those […]

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Captive Ant Colony Journals Update – 3 Dec 19

3 Comments / 3rd December 2019 / Myrm / Site Updates & News

Welcome to another update on my captive ant colonies. In this update I talk about a wandering Myrmica rubra queen, and I discuss allowing my ants to hibernate. I had tried to prevent the ants going into full hibernation this year to try to encourage the Lasius umbratus to complete their new nest excavation. I have done

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