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Update: She has emerged from her burrow, and she dragged 2 of the sunflower seeds into her nest, and resumed digging, which she has been doing all day, burying some of the seeds in the process, creating a hill of dirt around 3-4mm in height.

It appears she has finished digging her burrow, as she has sealed the entrance and has remained underground the past two days. I expect her to emerge at some point, so I placed a few sunflower seeds near the entrance for when she does emerge to eat. I continue to water the nest regularly to keep her...

I've been giving her de-shelled sunflower seeds, although she hasn't interacted with them yet, as she has been focused on digging a burrow, creating a good-sized mound of dirt in the corner of the container. Every so often I see her emerge from her hole carrying a large piece of dirt to deposit near...

I ended up placing her into a tupperware container half full with dampened soil, and she has dug herself a nest. I'll be sure to place some seeds in there along with the honey and cricket legs, hopefully she does well.

I recently caught my first P. occidentalis queen. As far as my research shows, they are semi-claustral, so I placed her in a test tube, with a small tube leading out the end, in which I placed a drop of honey and 2 cricket legs for her to eat. I placed the test tube portion under a blanket so it wou...