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Ok. Good to hear.
Do I have to feed them during the hibernation?
Like giving them sugar water or proteins?

The ants and me are both from europe.
So they are Lasius Niger.

But thank you for the additional information.
It's always interesting how similar species are named in different countries or continents.

Ok thank you very much.

Hello antlovers.

Is this colony species lasius niger?



Greetings from Steve.

Hello antlovers. I have 3 colonies of ants. Two of them seem to be lasius niger and the other one seems to be tetramorium caespitum. So for the winter i bought a fridge for them and slowly cooled them down. I build up a raspberry pi with a temperatur monitoring to see if the temperature is right. To...

Hello Batspiderfish.
Again thank you so much for your help.
I hope the question is not stupid.
But what is the sp. Standing for?
I can't find any species called sp. Or is it social parasite?

Greetings from Steve

Hello together, i found 10 queen ants today. They were everywhere. I got too much. So I kept only three. They all look identical. Here are the pics for identifying them. Thank you so much in advance. :D Greetings from Steve View from downside. http://img.picshare.at/1530310414_Still_2018-06-29_23425...

So am I doing right when I place them both in a separate test tube setup each in the darkness? (like I did :D ) Room temperature and without food until the first workers arrive? (at this point I´m a little clueless, because I find so much information about the colony starting phase. Some feed them w...

So here are the pictures to identify my first queen...





So i hope this pictures are good enough now...

Both my queens, tetramorium and the lasius one now layed eggs... Depending on handle and grow rate I decide which one I keep...
So both should be happy with the nest.