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>>282311
First of all, ants do not have gender, but it's easier to talk about 'males' and 'females'. All workers in the nest are females and so is the queen, the only males you'll find are the ones swarming at nuptial flights to mate with other queens.
Just workers will do nothing in your nest, workers need a purpose to live, give them some eggs or pupae so they'll start digging and make a nest. Even better is finding a queen and start from scratch, do NOT put other queens with the workers, in most cases they will kill her.
Honey is good, but maple syrup is better.
>>282317
There is no percentage to cover the amount of males or females, what are you sources? A young colony will never produce males or queens, only when the colony is big enough to start the third stage of colonization.
stage 1: single queen produces eggs and raises them stage 2: workers will forage until the colony is big enough for the queen to do nothing but lay eggs stage 3: reproduce males and queens for nuptial flights and ensure your species survives the last stage will repeat itself until the queen and colony dies.
>>282321
Only some species will 'make' queens, if a queen dies in a nest some workers will battle for the position of queen, but as I said, not a lot of species do that.
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