Need help please guys

[MatLaf]

Hey guys , last years I manage to capture 3 queens , two of them dies sadly ... but the last one was going super well , she got up to 6 workers it was beautiful and i was super happy.

Then the winter arrive so i kept them in a cold place but not to cold and now that summer is coming back i was happy to see that the queen survive and i change her test tube cause the cotton was getting black and now she only have 1 workers left !! I check many time if they escape but it would be impossible cause the test tube is a containers with a barrier near the top.

Should a feed them more ? Or not ? I uselly fed them a drop of honey like once a week and i try to give them a piece of apple once but they didn’t seen interested

So help me out guys ! It a camponotus colony btw

And last week i capture another camponotus queen and she already have a bunch of egg ( feeling happy )

[Wardword]

Hey guys , last years I manage to capture 3 queens , two of them dies sadly ... but the last one was going super well , she got up to 6 workers it was beautiful and i was super happy.

Then the winter arrive so i kept them in a cold place but not to cold and now that summer is coming back i was happy to see that the queen survive and i change her test tube cause the cotton was getting black and now she only have 1 workers left !! I check many time if they escape but it would be impossible cause the test tube is a containers with a barrier near the top.

Should a feed them more ? Or not ? I uselly fed them a drop of honey like once a week and i try to give them a piece of apple once but they didn’t seen interested

So help me out guys ! It a camponotus colony btw

And last week i capture another camponotus queen and she already have a bunch of egg ( feeling happy )

Some queens just do not do well, all 3 of my Campanotus queens have eggs and larva right now.
2 of them only have 5 to 15 eggs max, while one of them has close to 30+ and is on her 2nd batch, she is waaay ahead of the others, and they were caught at nearly the same time too !.

[MatLaf]

Yeah i notice the same between the 3 queen from last years , but im affraid that my last queen from last years will dies too, i means why all her workers start to dies ?

And while we are here how long a worker ants live normally ? Does anybody know that ?

[AntsRule]

They might have escaped, what was your barrier? As said above camp. Are very finicky. Give them peace and hope for the best. Have you feed them,

[MatLaf]

My barrier is on the vertical side of a big plastic containers i try it with some other random ant before putting my test tube in and it work perfectly.

And I been feeding them a drop a honey about every week or so and clean the old honey at the same time.

It is normal that the nanitic die only after one years ?

[antnest8]

what was the material you used as a barrier. Vaseline, baby powder, flu-on, etc.

[MatLaf]

Baby powder mic woth rubbing alcool and the up side down part of the containter ( it look like a vase with a small hole on top ) so no escape ants i just did a test with a ant from outside and she can’t get out she slip everytime