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Thank you. I will just wait for a lucky moment and collect the rest of the workers and reunite then with the colonie.

How should i get my colonie out of the outworld for hybernation? Should i just let the workers in there and reunite them the next summer?

My 2 year old messor barbarus colony is going to hybernate soon but i have no idea how to get them out of the outworld so they can fit in the fridge. Last year the were small enough so i could wait until no ant was in there but that's now impossible.

she recently layed brown-yellow eggs and i think its pretty strange.

I found this ant queen in the southern of france and i think its a carpenter ant but im not sure.
Here are some pictures: https://imgur.com/a/x1cMCCC
She's about 5 cm long.

Ok thanks then i'll wait.

I have found 2 s. fugax queen last year and 1 layed eggs and they hatched their now up to a size of about 20-30 workers. Now i wanted to introduce the 2. one because s. fugax is poly. and put them together in a setup. The 2 queens are in different testtubes and today i found like 2-3 dead workers in...

ok thanks then i'll wait.

Ok thanks i guess i'll just wait. And after 3-4 days i'll try to move the brood.

My sloeonopsis fugax queen is letting her brood alone to drink on the other side of the test tube (picture below). The first test tube dried out during hybernation. It's been like this for about 2-3 days and i don't really know what I should do. Any ideas?

Picture:
https://ibb.co/dgSMGS1