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Do you have live plants in the formicarium? Aphids produce their honeydew from the sap of trees/plants.

This video may give you some ideas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1weZJqEalN8&t=926s

Have you already caught a queen?

Bit confused, wasnt it just a single queen colony?

You've done well to count those eggs, they're tiny!

Any ideas on the formicarium you'll eventually move them into?

Any idea how long the eggs take to fully form? Pictures?

So timings seem to have aligned for me this week. Looking more into nuptial flights yesterday after reading through some of the posts here and found that sugar ants usually fly in Summer after rain in the evening. it had rained on Monday for the first time in months so I went looking at around 10pm ...

Okay cool, makes me a little less worried, just seemed like a large amount to appear overnight. Ill keep an eye on her. Any idea how long it usually takes a Queen to leave her test tube? Do ants go through diapause (is that like hibernating?) in Australia? Any good resources for checking when nuptia...

Hey all, just came across this forum and was hoping someone could help me seeing as I havent been able to find anything else online. Last week I started my ant family with a formicarium and a Queen Camponotus consobrinus. She came with 4 workers and the first week went well. A new worker hatched(?) ...