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I ordered mine from lake Charles manufacturing.

https://www.lcmlab.com/Test_Tubes_s/129.htm

Really cheap got the pyrex ones, they also have plastic and borosilicate glass.

Congratulations on the eggs, hope all is still going well. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the egg laying, then the larvae developing and pupating. And was really excited over the first nanitics. Unfortunately the colonies crashed shortly after. It was still an exciting and enjoyable experience for th...

I went back out and caught five more solenopsis queens, they had all removed their wings and were gathered around 100 foot from the ant hills that were having nuptial flights. Were lots of winged queens as well. I did not collect those since most of the hills were having nuptial flights I was not po...

Be careful with that back pain heating pad, if you cover it completely with something it could catch on fire. We had one partially under a critter keeper and it overheated to the point that the container melted.

Caught another queen, watched a nuptial flight of fire ants. Caught a queen several hundred feet from the flight. She had ripped off her wings and was looking around. I noticed she has some sort of external parasite on her. Looked like a mite, anyway I posted a post about that in ant keeping. Will t...

Caught a queen ant, Solenopsis. Anyway, while looking at her through a loupe I noticed an external parasite. It looks like a tick. I believe it may be a mite. I was trying to get a picture of this mite or whatever it is. It disappeared and I saw the queen chewing on something? Did she eat it? Anyway...

The Camponotus species I have had have been slow to lay. A lot of them took over a month to finally lay eggs. The Camponotus queen I have now was caught on April 21st. And I just noticed today that she has larvae. Not sure when the eggs were layed but it has been within the last ten days. She will l...

The queen will move the eggs to wherever she feels has best conditions. The workers will do the same once they arrive. As long as there is water in the tube you should not worry much about humidity. Her moving them shows that she is taking care of them. If something were wrong she would scatter the ...

Checked on my queen today, she appears healthy. She has 5 or 6 larvae. Had not checked on her in two weeks. Do not have time to get pictures unfortunately.

Upon further inspection of the queen ant I realized there is no way it is a Solenopsis, only has one petiole. Posted pictures on another forum and they gave me an I'd of Camponotus discolor. Pics are blurry, my new phone sucks at taking macro pictures. Have ordered a decent loupe, hoping I will be a...