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| An entire colony the same size as that in DHJanzen100102.jpg (THIS colony had displayed here, had very exceptionally, two queens - in the two vials, but it also occupied about ten smaller shoots in a patch, and probably started as two independent colonies that fused). The bowls are about 5 inches in diameter. The alate (virgin) queens and males were separated by hand from the mass of ants. The worker ants were collected by the vacuum aspirator (upper right corner) directly from the foliage. The larvae and pupae (upper center bowl with ivory colored ants) were separated from the workers mixed with them by dropping all in water, and discovering that the larvae sank and the workers floated (or was it the other way around?). There were about 18,000 worker ants in this colony. | ||
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