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its bacteria, it forms if you or your equipment was not sterilized before hand, make sure you wash your tubes and hands really well when constructing your test tube setup, just make another one and transfer that your colonies

this is normal, theres really nothing to do during the founding stages so the queen is just saving energy, all you need to do before the first nanatics arrive is to just leave them alone

kinda blurry but looks like some form of lasius. maybe americanus?

since you're in BC the majority of camponotus flights are basically done, most carpenter ants hold their nuptial flights at around april-may and you must have gotten some late flying modoc, the good news is that theyre are tons more species starting theyre flights all throughout summer

right now they are chill, but once a couple workers start coming they will definitely start killing eachother until 1 remains, you should move them into test tube setups asap!! dividing the brood is the difficult part, I would use a slightly wet cotton bud and slowly pick up brood and divide it even...

1 basically now, by the time you get a couple workers you should already be feeding them protein 2 mix water and sugar, more sugar then water 3 a good idea is to mix honey and water together instead of just honey 4 yes but honey is better 5 just wash with dishsoap 6 hold off on the hybrid nests unti...

looks like some sort of lasius

How good do myrmica rubra climb and can olive oil work as an ant barrier them specifically

Hi ! Nice to see more and more people joining this awesome hobby. you started off nicely, and you're probably right about the species. Now what I like to do is wrap a paper around the viewing part of the test tube (or in your case, floral pick) then it will be 100% dark in their tube. Then you can t...

its cause you keep looking at her and disturbing her, she gets anxious and eats her eggs. stop looking at her and only do small checks every few weeks