- Description
- Specifications
Museum Quality Specimen
Live Like Mating Queen Ant
Worth to be displayed in a World Class Museum
In warm days of late spring and early summer virgin queens and winged male ants leave the nest in massive swarms called nuptial flights searching out a mate from another colony.
After mating, queen ants loose their wings and try to find a suitable home to dig a new colony. They lay eggs which produce the first brood of offspring.
The first larvae later become the sterile female workers.
Winged males, called drones, who are much smaller than the queens, die shortly after mating.
This is a museum quality specimen in perfect condition.
This mating ants, belonging to the subfamily formicinae, were trapped about 20 million years ago by a drop of resin of the algarrobo tree.
So far this is the second Specimen of this category, this one is actually from far the nicest one.
