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Ok thanks for info, you are a great help

So I can just put them in the fridge and just let them slowly get colder over the day

I know it’s not near hibernation time yet, but I’m wondering if I could put my c.novaeboracensis right into the fridge for hibernation, or if I have to make it colder day by day like outside

In my opinion any camponotus sp. would work. They are not escape artist, there slow growing and are very big so it’s easy to get a good look at them! I have been any keeping for one year now and my first ant colony was camponotus, I still have them all of course and they are found very well.

Update #1

July 18

I took a look on the queens yesterday and…. It looked as though the queens had doubled in eggs! I also noticed that most of the queens are now hanging out on the cotton plug blocking the water, (except for threee.)

4 days ago (July 11), I put 14 queens of the species Formica subsericea into the same test tube knowing they were polygynous. Two days later (July 13), I checked on them and they had around 35 or so eggs! It was so cool. A few queens had shedded there wings and put them in neat pile, meanwhile other...

I have also decided that I’m going to make the journal on a different thread.

Ok

I’m actually fine with that as the queens that will be killed off will most likely be the ones that I think are unfertilized

Hi every one, so 4 Days ago I caught 6 Formica subsericea queens then the next day I caught 7 and the next 1. After catching these queens I decided to put them all together in one test tube set up, as they are a polygynous species of ant. 2 days later and a few queens have shedded their wings and pu...