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Will230145 wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 02, 2017 4:25 pm

So I have a Formica and Lasius neoniger queen, which one should I keep as I'm only keeping one?

Keep both. Throw away one and the one you keep dies, you'll be having a tough time.

i would but my little sister took the darn test tube and put to much water in it. so i moved the queen and quickly dryed the tube, it was all set but... the queen escaped and all i have now is a clean empty test tube. sigh :cry: Maybe it got offended that you thought it was a lasius niger. Bad luck...

Definitely a male alate. Sorry about the death, mate.

Hm, what's bad about potting mix? I'd honestly like to know.

Great to hear, mate!

Do you have any pics of the queen? I'd love to see.

That's odd. I'll have to try that now. The rubbing alcohol is for the baby powder to stick onto the glass/wall, so it's interesting to see the method prevailing without it. Thanks for the tip. When you watch mikey's videos, you can see that he uses that method quite often. Huh? I've never seen Mike...

1. Don't take workers or brood from existing ant colonies from the wild. 2. You can do 'brood boosting', which is taking brood from a dead queen that you have caught. Afterwards, you place the brood in another queen's setup and they will possibly adopt the new eggs. 3. You can capture alates and unm...

Yeah, I'd like to see an update here. She is most likely hibernating or is not fertilised, just like the posts above has mentioned.