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I ordered a Lasius Hybrid Nest and received it a few months back and it came in a dark brown colour and the mesh for the hydration was really poorly stuck on and hung off a little, I wasn't really bothered about the mesh, I just reattached it with more silicon. I was however pretty annoyed with the ...

It's also my first summer trying ant keeping and I understand that it's very hard not to look at them, I could watch them all day, they're just so interesting but it's always best just to put them in a dark warm place with a medium air flow and just let them be for a month, if you left them for a mo...

I'm sorry that you didn't have any luck with your Lasius, which Lasius type was it? I'm pretty sure I have Lasius Neo-Niger.

Thank you all for the advice, my two Lasius queens are both currently laying eggs and looking healthy, I really hope they both make it in case I don't find any other queens and also I have two Lasius hybrid nests waiting for them, so hopefully they will be okay.

My iPhone camera isn't good enough to see it, but it looks a lot like this image I found on google. (https://gyazo.com/2692f988277c51c6f4bfc94e84b82675) Those two antenna are the things that caught my attention, at first I thought my queen had some sort of deformity, then upon closer inspection I sa...

She has no others Mikey, just eggs, I only found her a week ago.

I've noticed recently on one of my queens there is a small creature of some sort residing under the queens neck, it moves around but never comes off, what is it?

She has adjusted to her temperature in your house inside of a test tube, if you bury her in the test tube, overnight the temperature drop will most likely kill her or make her ill.

I'm pretty sure Myrmica Ruba fly within July-August so I'm sure you'll come across one eventually, also would love to know where you search or even where you notice a nuptial flight in the UK, I live in Kent, the so called Garden of England and I can't find any queens! Nor have I seen one nuptial fl...