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We only check every 1 to 1.5 weeks. She stays on a table in the bedroom so away from the main living area where the dogs are running around and can cause noise and vibration. The temp is 74 in the house. So I think it is ok. We are just going to wait and see. I did check her before last weekend and ...

ok thanks. I am using lost of self restraint to not check on her very much cause I don't want to stress her out. But if I look sideways into the tube I can see her rear so it looks like she is still tending the other eggs.

So this would be my first colony. My son and I fell in love with the AntsCanada YT channel and decided to start a colony. We found a carpenter queen with wings broken off and set up a test tube for her. A few days later she laid her first eggs. Then more eggs to about 12-14 total and kept them in a ...