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I gave food to my queens, one of them drinked from the honey, and I think also ate from the fly that I gave her. But after that she started to lay eggs, and she didn't touched the food. I think she filled both stomach, I hope this will help her a lot.

Thanks for the answers. Actualy after the first answer, I separated the queen. Since that, she didn't lay any eggs like the other lasius niger that I have. I wasn't sure about lasius niger until an another hungarian ant keeper told me that is a lasius niger. In the last few weeks I studied the ants,...

Hello, they are looks like those I found. The black one is I think Lasius niger, and the orange one is probably Formica rufibarbis but I'm not sure.

Please keep us updated if you find out anything.

I created a cheap nest with plastic cup and plaster like this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DMeoc2-FbM2pAjWD7P19bSDCENBtPyicIg/view?usp=sharing I poured the plaster in the cup, i let it to dry, then I carved out as you can see on the picture. I also put small plastic cup and plate on the top of ...

Hello everybody. I just started to keep ants as my new hobby, and I was lucky to catch two ant queen after their flight, and both started to lay eggs. I also found a small lasius niger nest when I was changing things in the garden, and I picked a few pupas to use it to boost one of my queen, and I a...