My Ants KILLED Their QUEEN!!

In this video, we will explore a seemingly counterproductive aspect of ant behavior...

[@LP_Liger_Pride730_Singleplayer]

it is because a fire ant colony only accepts 1 queen

[@Antsusa377]

It's pretty common for Fire ant colonies to have multiple queens

[@SGMPS]

It depends on the species, some species of fire ants like solenopsis geminata are known to be polygynous

[@zoilaleal4990]

O :0

[@Michalafton357]

This really is the USA

[@Reshtarc]

Less productive or was not fertile are the most probable reasons. The telling fact will be when they are down to the last queen. Will they keep her alive or kill her also.

[@Antsusa377]

They would not kill the last queen

[@Reshtarc]

@@Antsusa377 Oh yes they some times do. For no other reason than they are in kill mode after the first 5 they put down. Takes a bit for all of them to realize this is the last queen.... Some times they self exterminate as a colony this way. I hope not but they are able to do it.

[@juanitadominado7703]

Yo hold on fire ants ain't multi queen my fire ant colony has 4 queens 56 workers I think and none of the queens died and all are desame species as your colony

[@Antsusa377]

Did u raise them from captures queens or did u get them as an established colony?

[@Finley-xb1ht]

I grew my largest Lasius Niger colony this way, they started with 4 queens, and now almost a year later, there is only 1 queen.

[@Antsusa377]

@@Finley-xb1ht Nice!

[@AntOAnt-ez8gp]

i am in a very similar predicament myself right now but it seems she is just taking care of a pupae pile

[@Antsusa377]

The queens killed each other? Interesting...

[@AntOAnt-ez8gp]

@@Antsusa377 not yet its just a couple of queens on a different brood pile

[@angelabadiano4249]

Yeah you need to learn a lot about fire ants i didn't accept a lot of queen ants i only accept 1 dont do it again okay

[@Antsusa377]

There are polygynous fire ant colonies...