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So my aphaenogaster colony with 5 workers died. The queen died on the nest

A colony cannot survive without a queen, the queen usually is the one who lays drone eggs. Workers rarely lay eggs. Ants without social stomachs sometimes lays infertile eggs for the queen to eat.

19/1/2 3 of the workers died, I need urgent advice. There are only 5 workers in the nest now and it is getting big. I think there were a reason behind the deaths, my house recently underwent pest control and I fed them a moth that potentially had pesticide. Is there any way to get them eating and he...

18/1/23 They are now around 3 months old, i just realised how slow they were to start off, I only started this journal in January . I moved them into a new nest, I think it’s a tiny too big for them, smoothly dumped them into the outworks, no causalities. :D :D :D :lol: :lol: :lol: Here are some pic...

16/1/24

All their eggs have gone again, is it because of stress?
I fed them a moth lately.
How should I move them into a new nest? I can dump the: in the outworld but that can be risky, I already tried using light and heat

Umm guys uhhh I wrote it as 2023 it’s actually 2024 lol.

Sry for the confusion

14/1/23 They have a huge batch of new eggs, around 15, over 6 developing larva, 4 developed larva and a pupa. It turns out my concerns about her laying eggs was wrong, they now have over 25 brood in total. :lol: the pupa is about to hatch too. so that will make the worker count 8. They are doing gre...

I live in Australia, but there are available esthetic ants test tube portals. Another method imma considering, as you have probably seen in my journal, is to move them into an arcrylic nest or ytong nest. I can immediately move them into the arcrylic one, but he ytong one at least needs 50 workers. ...

12/1/23 She laid more eggs, good amount of larva and an enclosing pupa in the brood pile ;) :mrgreen: :lol: :lol: Btw should I move her into an esthetic ants ytong nest or an arcrylic nest once they get to around 30 workers? The arcrylic nest has separator gates so I can actually move them in right ...

Ok i did.
I only check on the colony every 2 days to feed them, the queen laid more eggs

There gonna have 8 workers soon, gonna leave them be for now.