I need info on RIFA
Hey i wasn't sure if this belongs in ant feilding or not so if it does belong there move it i dont mind at all.Ok I just want info on RIFA or red imported fire ants. I only have one colony of them in...
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If you do a google search for RIFA you will probably get all the info you are looking for. Beyond that considering the species you are looking at thats it from me."The most exciting phrase to hear in...
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read my post in your POLL, my journal in keeping ants...and anting boards I have a thread up tooLike I said in the POLL you made, despite what others think...I'm gonna raise the RIFA fire ants I have....
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Just a word of advice: You should start searching the message board, instead of making all these new threads you've been making. Alot of the information you've been requesting is already in the forum....
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Ok and i looked at the post in my poll and im going to raise some too! Is the queen (in a colony) usually around a big clump of eggs? Because a couple times while digging the nest i would maybe find a...
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The queen of a large colony will be surrounded by tons of brood, and workers. You may not even be able to see her because she's covered in workers. I've seen this with aphaenogaster and tetramorium....
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ahahh ok yeah ive seen pics where workers are all over the queen and you can barely even see the queen.Because right now sometimes when i dig like another inch there will just be a hole and tons of...
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Basically... If its a big colony like the one your talking about... the queen could be anywhere. Chances are though... that you've alread killed her... The eggs are a good hint though. Also, when you...
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oh sorry about the egg thing but yes i mean like pupa which are sometimes the same size as small workers and some of the "eggs" are more of like half the size. I hope i havent alredy killed the queen...
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the eggs are extremely small. WAY smaller than half the worker. You're seeing larvae.chazzbo77
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mutalisk46802: Look at these photographs to see the differences between eggs, larvae, pupae, etc.:www.antcam.com/pics/species/fireants.utk.edu/fireantJ...stages.jpg"Did the ant fall off the toilet...
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Ahahh i think ive grasped the concept now but yeah i saw some pupae, some larvae, and i think i might have seen some eggs but i cant remember right now. Thanks for the pics
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I'd say that you've probably killed the nest. Also, I'd say theres no way your getting the queen now... so I would just forget the whole thing. The queen's either dead or moved or deeper in the nest...
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ok so im probably better off just digging another nest only about 2 inches in diamtere? Tomorrow ill just dump all the RIFA i have near the nest and ill just forget about that one.
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You might have destroyed your chance of getting a queen by choosing to dig it up in the first place. You should have left it be and let their nuptial occur. Then get a queen from that. But now, I'd...
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Seems to me you are making allot of classic "i want a queen ant but don't have the patients or knowledge to get one" mistake.... also failing to get the queen by means of likely killing the queen and...
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Lol... and you want RIFA? If you want sort through those gals, be my guest... haha... bring ointment... WAIT FOR THE NUPTIAL!! IT'S COMING SOON!!chazzbo77
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