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The nanitic is now dead, so that makes three out of five that have died. Looks like I will be closing them up in the test tube again. Problem is I have not found a good way to feed them in the test rube. I tried putting a piece of foil in with honey and meal worm on it, the queen ran over and aimed ...

The ants have a test tube with fresh distilled water. They always have access to fresh honey. They always have access to a fresh piece of crushed meal worm. They have been eating both. They are in a test tube in a small plastic critter keeper for an outworld. The test tube they are living in still h...

Camponotus pennsylvanicus

I have lost two nanitics thus far. The first nanitic looked like it could not walk, kept flipping onto it's back and freaking out. It died shortly after, the second nanitic I found dead in the outworld. Today a nanitic was out foraging, I decided to watch it for a bit, she started climbing the walls...

So, I may have figured out what happened ro my nanitics. I saw a nanitic foraging today, she climbed the wall. She tried to climb over the vaseline barrier and fell off. She tried again, and of course slipped. After slipping the second time I noticed she was having problems climbing at all. Then whe...

Another dead nanitic, in two weeks have lost two nanitics. Not sure if this is normal, but it does have me concerned. Still plenty of larva, pupa, and eggs so hoping the colony is still ok. As long as she out produces the losses I will feel much better about this colony. I am not sure how long nanit...

So nanitics do not live long? Getting nervous because I do not want more to die than what are produced.

There are still a ton of pupae, the other nanitics look fine. Just concerned since two have died.

The outworld is a plastic critter keeper. It was washed well before use, and it is very small. They have been foraging with no problem.

This is my first real attempt at ant keeping. I caught a queen C. Pennsylvanicus in June. She has produced 4 nanitics. A week or two back I noticed a nanitic acting funny. The nanitic was lie in on its back and basically pitching a fit. I flipped it right side up and it did it again. A couple of hou...