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I just dug my L. niger queen out of the drawer to see how she's getting on.
She's been a bit slow with her first batch of workers, possibly due to her coming out of hibernation in Jan (early I know!)

I'm happy to report the brood is developing well and we have a couple of ***** pupa that are visibly looking like ants

Nice! I cant wait to see my Crematogaster's or Camponotus's nanitics.

Oddly enough she also has one solitary cocoon in the brood pile as well

Weirs. Hopefully that number will rise once she ecloses.

I read somewhere that workers normally put soil/sand on the larva when they spin the cocoon? perhaps once they're in the nest in a few months they'll be able to use sand from the outworld to do the same thing. I just thought it was funny that there's 3 or 4 ***** pupa and one thats spun itself into a cocoon

huh. Maybe try giving them a small amount of soil or substrate when you get workers.

Yeh I think i'll put her test tube into the test tube portal and leave a little sand in there, see how that works out.

jwatson16202 wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 30, 2017 9:10 pm

Yeh I think i'll put her test tube into the test tube portal and leave a little sand in there, see how that works out.

Try to make sure the sand is moist so it doesn't spill everywhere though.