Rising-Sun -> RE: Need help on Chemistry (12/20/2014 6:30:46 AM)
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Cool, that might help me with my project at least give me some ideas. What I usually do is cut those plants around 3-4 inches from the top and place them in water containers so they will last longer. Too bad the queen doesn't care for other plants, sometime she eat insects off those plants that have been collecting pollens and nectars, but doesn't always work. So I watch her flying around collecting nectars and fly back to her nest. When I spotted a queen collecting from this type of plant outside, I grab some and place them in a terrarium and she went crazy on it. Too bad her young didn't make it and had to be pulled and abandoned and then she start over laying eggs. One the second around within few weeks she manage to get two to four white capped cacoons and I was so excited it worked last Spring. So her colony died out couple months later because lack of nectars they need. Sadly these workers only live for two months. I found her nest late May in a tree and it was a bad spot and the apartment's crew will spray and kill her along with it. So I decided to get her and the nest and see what I can do. Most books only explain outside environments and doesn't look like anyone ever done this inside or captivity. You guys probably wonder what kind of critters I have here. Here some videos I took earlier... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qAhSzsw1d8&index=1&list=PLtRnDbDuHiJNmrqQWHHbdc0ZWZ2eQbKlY
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