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According to Wikipedia, an ergatoid is the scientific name for a de-alate, which means a queen that is fertile.

Weird! Why would she do that? The only explanations I can think of is that there is something wrong with worker, or that worker was from a brood broost. Was it just one nanitic, or was it all of them?

UPDATE The queen and worker are both doing fine! They have continued to devour cricket legs and pieces of fruits, and have finally established a garbage pile. The queen has also laid some more eggs, and one of the larvae has pupated. I believe the brood count is as follows: Eggs - 6 Larave - 2 Pupa...

The genus looks to be Pheidole, but I can not say what species.

Good luck with the queen!

Well, the last photos of your suspected Camponotus are in fact Camponotus, but I don’t know about the Lasius ant. Also, may I ask the point of this post?

Ok, well it seems I’m am not 110% sure on my identification of Iridomyrmex Bicknelli. :lol: I am still almost positive that you queen has the look of the Iridomyrmex genus, but I don’t think it is Bicknelli. Based on information from this site ( www.antwiki.org/wiki/Iridomyrmex_species_by_Country#Ne...

With the new photos, I can definitely say 110% that is an Iridomyrmex Bicknelli queen. I have a couple of queens and colony’s myself, so if you ever need any help or tips, just ask me!

Would you like some photos of my colony?

Sorry man, that blows...

Well, I would say around 50- 100 workers and a decent pile of brood

Awesome! thank you. I will be updating every time something happens or if I need help/advice. I see you have 2 queens of the same species. Any tips etc? Well, they are pretty easy to care for, they grow fast, and are a very common species in Australia. At this stage, I would feed them with a cricke...