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on Christmas day 2016 I caught a small wild Lepisiota capensis colony with about 150 workers 4 queens and 60-80 cocoons

Now 2 weeks later they are going strong with only 7 casualties and two thirds of the cocoons hatched and there is a steady brood pile of eggs and larvae they drank almost an entire small test tube of water and are eating crushed nuts, disected insects and tons of honey
once they even started moving into their food testube

Queen 4 died
RIP Queen 4

Day 15
There are some larvae in mid form entailing they moulted once or twice and I only had cocoons when I caught the colony. There for when the cocoons start piling up and population explodes I will know the egg to worker time

Day 19
I moved the colony into a new 10 by 13 cm formicarium and new larger outfield right now they are in the pipe that is in the nest
They love honey
I guess they really are called black sugar ants for a reason

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Just a note on my previous post
The colony will be referred to as the sugar society

These ants absolutely hate dry nests
So i modified there setup to have 2 hydration chambers

Im happy beause i am contributing to science