Worker physogastry and its causes...
Eversince I've caughed that Plagiolepis vindobonensis queen and a few workers along with her I kept wondering about the physogastry that the workers show.It seems that physogastry is a common...
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from what I'm readin physogastry is the swelling of the gaster. If this is so then I think I have an idea of what is going...All ants have the ability to sretch out their crop to a size bigger than it...
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Worker physogastry is usually related to food storage in their crops, but when workers become reproductive (ergatoid queens) they may become physogastric due to their swollen ovaries. Having ergatoid...
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Since Plagiolepis spp. are polygynous (there can be up 20+ queens in a single nest - which has to be true since almost everytime I find at least one queen, sometimes even a couple) I have read that...
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Non-physogastric queens usually do lay eggs, but physogastric ones lay at a higher rate.
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