Poisoned a house ant nest and a large batch of ants hatched and came threw a crack with wings.
Any ideas?
2006-08-13 11:25:53 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
either new queens or drones.
2006-08-13 11:31:18 · answer #1 · answered by Albannach 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, they didn't hatch and do anything, they didn't hatch at all. They simply left. Whatever made you immeditaely assume they had hatched?
Any ant that you saw had hatched weeks earlier. When ants hatch they are grubs. They look like tiny maggots. They can't even move on their own.
As for the winged individuals you saw, they were simply the next generation of kings and queens. The reproductive individuals in ant colonies have wings so they can fly off and establish new nests.
Nothing in the least unusual.
2006-08-13 11:33:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You disturbed the nest just before the new
generation of queens and males were nearly ready
to leave it anyway. If you hadn't poisoned it they
would have come out in a few days anyway. As
the other answers have indicated these flying
individuals, those that survive, found new colonies.
Termites behave in the same way. Ants in a house
are not necessarily the wood tunneling kind, but
they might be.
2006-08-14 06:10:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're queens and Drones or flying ants. They didn't hatch right away. At my old school, we had these huge, winged ants that came every year in may. We call them 'Sompopos de Mayo.'
2006-08-13 12:14:55 · answer #4 · answered by aximili12hp 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are probably alates - winged males and females produced for the mating season once per year. It suggets the colony is alive and well, not poisoned at all. They will take off at night, mate, and the females will head off to start new nests. (The males will fall to the ground, exhausted, then start foraging for food and get eaten by something.)
2006-08-13 18:48:22 · answer #5 · answered by dukefenton 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There flying ants.... you need to have them taken care of because they eat wood and make burrows like a termite. I use to have them, there disgusting.
2006-08-13 11:34:34 · answer #6 · answered by ™ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those are probably queen ants. Kill them or they will start a new colony!
2006-08-13 15:39:21 · answer #7 · answered by Isis-sama 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Termites.
2006-08-13 11:30:33 · answer #8 · answered by helixburger 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-29 05:48:02 · answer #9 · answered by murchison 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u must have had a nuke bomb go off a long time ago and the radiation hasnt wore off now uve unleashed a swarm of deadly ants now were all gonna die thanks a lot
2006-08-13 11:33:59 · answer #10 · answered by drewiage20 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its really like the heir the princess of the colony
2006-08-13 12:33:11 · answer #11 · answered by Sasori_RedSand 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋