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Had to take the foil with honey out… this camponotus queen is absolutely insane. She started lunging herself at the honey thinking it was a threat. She’s not mentally stable. Then she started oozing this brown liquid up and down the tube out her butt - did I stress her out and give her diarrhoea? 😂 ...

I’ve put a bit of honey on foil in just incase (was reluctant to do this as the last time I did the queen flipped it into the cotton and ate her eggs..) so far the worker hasn’t touched it (looks dead half the time) and the queen keeps jabbing it with her booty as if it’s a threat but doesn’t look l...

Hi there My queen had her first worker! And from the pic looks like 2-3 more to shortly follow Must be less than a week old. Question though… it seems very… docile. Like barely moving. Is it normal for it to be disorientated so soon after eclosing? Does it need feeding? My lasius flavus workers are ...

Ahh okay - I think I can find another smaller Tupperware box that can still fit on the heat mat a bit the. - good idea about plugging holes with cotton I didn’t think to do that and keep the lid on. If the cricket is on a toothpick will they just take back what they need? I didn’t think about them t...

Also what do you do to keep them in the outworld if it’s an open Tupperware? Like what solution I don’t trust any of them

Thanks! What outworld would you recommend? I currently have my 3 test tubes in a small Tupperware box wrapped in a cloth and they’re sat with 1 quarter on the heat mat - I could remove the cloth and just open the test tube of the camponotus to the outworld and put the food there. Otherwise I fear th...

Hi guys I now have 3 founding queens; a camponotus herculeanus with 2/3 pupae and a couple larvae (she is chilling on the entrance furthest away from test tube water, where my heat mat is under) Lasius flavus with 4 workers and 4-5 larvae and eggs - these are on the water cotton chamber and barely l...

Okay I set it up - she’s got another egg now since I last checked so I’m glad she’s re-laying again. I had it on high with half under and it felt too hot so I turned it down to medium. I’m now considering not having the mat touch the box at all - since the mat and the queens are in my bedside draw I...

Hey! It has an overheat mechanic yes and a temperature dial - although no stats on the dial so guessing in the dark with that - I don’t know how hot they’re meant to be I have the queens in tubes inside a plastic Tupperware box currently and wrapped in cloth for darkness - I planned on putting half ...

I live in the UK and we are currently getting around 15-20 degree Celsius weather. I have my ants in my bedside table and my room is usually room temperature or above after having the heating on. I’ve had a lasius flavus queen for nearly a year with no workers and a camponotus H queen who arrived a ...