How big should my ants outworld be?

[Plenter]

I have a Lasius Neoniger queen that has 4 cocoons and I was wondering how big should the outworld be?

[JoeHostile1]

Does she have workers? Because she doesn’t need or want an outworld before she has any workers that can forage. The outworld could be any size, it doesn’t need to be a certain size.

[Plenter]

Does she have workers? Because she doesn’t need or want an outworld before she has any workers that can forage. The outworld could be any size, it doesn’t need to be a certain size.

She doesn’t have workers yet but I need to prepair for them

[Whitelotus]

I would wait until she has about 30 workers or so.
At some point the workers will be needing space to go and forage.
You can make the size as large as you feel will be appropriate. I went a bit overboard with my first set up.
If you are looking for a good size set up to start with, I would probably say something as long and wide as an 8.5 inch x 11 inch sheet of paper.
You could make it larger if you feel appropriate.