Parasites?

[IonutH98]

Hello everyone, im new into this hobby and i want to ask something thats bothering me. A few days ago i catched some queen ants and today i notice that almost all of them are dead . I notice that in the test tubes were some kind of worm or parasite i dont realy know what it is. I forgot to take photos of that "thing" cause i cleaned the test tubes right after i saw that. And im courious if you guys had this problem before, because its kinda descouraging seeng them dying .i have 1 more queen with about 3 eggs, i hope she will be allright.

[antnest8]

sometimes this just happens. Some kinds of queens are more susceptible to parasites than others.

[IonutH98]

Sometimes? From 16 queens i remained with just 1. And i wonder, maybe the test tubes are not good or something.

[antnest8]

no most likely its just that a type of fly is really annoying. in all my 1 year of ant keeping i have only had one queen die of a parasite that i know of.