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I caught a total of 13 if that helps

Again that just shows how bad I am at ant id

Looks like lasius sp.

Cape town.
http://imgur.com/a/e0iAR
Hope this will do.
They move a lot when I pick up the test tube

I was busy at my house when I saw a queen mating on my window so I went outside and caught 7 more of these queens.
Any way they are all the same.
7mm long
Have bright orange abdomens
http://imgur.com/a/SchG5
Those are two of the 8 queens

so its been a while but she has some very tiny larvae

Thanks. Just out of interest what species. Do you have?

I narrowed it down to
Bothroponera
Euponera
Hyponera.
These are all native to south Africa according to the list of SA ant species on antwiki

so if you didnt know i recently caught 2 ponerine sp queens and am wonder ing if having some dead big headed ants ,half baby meal worms and drops of sugar water will do

oh thanks
but those workers are dead phielode. i forgot to clean the tube, it previously housed a pheilode colony.
i have both queens in dirt setups now. and i saw one take one of those dead workers into her burrow so it is final. they are semi claustrial queens