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Tue Jan 10, 2017 11:49 am

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

Egg to worker time is approximately 47-48 days
So I now have a full cycle going so my colony will grow....

http://imgur.com/a/cJ9Xp
The growing colony.
And the hungry colony.

Quite a few workers. How many queens are they down to?

Still 3

Day 49: Hooray..
My colony is starting to grow in numbers with 10 new workers yesterday and 12 new workers today
http://imgur.com/a/7EaJ9
Notice all the yellowish workers.

hey ant community
I snapped this video of probably a sixth of the entire colony foraging

also the brood pile (cocoons) has gotten smaller
another thing i noticed is all the newly eclosed workers get fed ful of juice. I wonder if this helps harden exoskeleton or stretch membrane in between parts of the abdomen .

There has been a minor grand escape.with ten workers on the loose I had to act quickly to get them back in the outworld