"URGENT"
Hello
everybody!
I'm looking very urgently for some
information about ant rearing in the lab. I'm working on interactions
between invasive species of ants and I just came back from Galapagos
Island were I collected some colonies of the following species:
Wasmannia auropunctata, Tetramorium simillimum, T. bicarinatum,
Solenopsis geminata. I stocked them and transported them in
small plastic boxes of camera film for 1 to 2 weeks. I brought
them to the lab 3 days ago (with standardized conditions: 25-28°C
and high humidity). When I released them in the rearing boxes
with rearing humid nest and some sugar water they ran actively
out of the transportation boxes and rushed on the sugar water.
But the next morning I found a lot of dead ones. Especially for
Wasmannia and Tetramorium simillimum. And I have
no explication. That's why I'm asking for advise from those of
you who have experience in transporting ants and rearing ants
in the lab!!!!!
Thanks in advance!!!"
Leïla