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Care to share with us your method for creating such wonderful photos? Camera? Lighting? etc?

I have tried moving ants into Hybrids or Omnis or other formicaria at 4 - 6 workers with poor success rates. The main motivation for me was to make feeding them easier than in a test tube setup. Just an FYI that waiting may pay off in the long run for the health of the colony.

If you think you might be interested in using Hybrid nests, the Hybrid nest ships with one 16x150mm plastic test tube. This size fits the Hybrid nest connection points.

Here is a great video on how to care for new queens:

Welcome to the forum Mojorisin! Glad you have joined us.

I monitored several harvester ant colonies last year and saw similar alate activity for a few days. Then a rainstorm hit and they flew the next day.

Haha, very nice Mauritaniants!

Thanks for all the suggestions ! I'll check these out.

Definitely a queen. The large thorax (middle section of body) is a good sign it's a queen.

This is fantastic! Pupae and nanitics, yay!