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il try again

i caught this queen a week ago now and she has now layed eggs but i don't know what species she is definitly not lasius niger maby a type of formica she is shiny black and 7 mm long

i know it is a slave making ant queen so when i caught it i put it in a normal test tube setup with four lasius niger workers and it completly ignored them even killing some of them so i added a small amount of sandy soil just in case it was too shy then after 4 days of not doing anything i went out...