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AnAntNoob
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Parasitic Lasius Queen Journal

Post: # 46739Post AnAntNoob
Mon Aug 06, 2018 5:32 pm

I found my first queen a week or so ago, i got her identified. Now i didnt know how to get pupae after knocking down a few bricks i found some after separating the pupae i put them in the tube. Eagerly awaiting ninantics. Will give updates. Feel free to suggest names for the queen and a name for the colony.
Currently founding:
Parasitic laisus

Waiting for Trachymyrmex septentrionalis, Prenolepis imparis, and Lasius aphidicola.

ClashOwenBash
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Location: Oxfordshire, England

Re: Parasitic Lasius Queen Journal

Post: # 46777Post ClashOwenBash
Tue Aug 07, 2018 2:21 am

AnAntNoob wrote:
Mon Aug 06, 2018 5:32 pm
I found my first queen a week or so ago, i got her identified. Now i didnt know how to get pupae after knocking down a few bricks i found some after separating the pupae i put them in the tube. Eagerly awaiting ninantics. Will give updates. Feel free to suggest names for the queen and a name for the colony.
I'm guessing it's a Laisus Umbratus queen???
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AntsDakota
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Re: Parasitic Lasius Queen Journal

Post: # 47562Post AntsDakota
Wed Aug 15, 2018 2:25 pm

AnAntNoob wrote:
Mon Aug 06, 2018 5:32 pm
I found my first queen a week or so ago, i got her identified. Now i didnt know how to get pupae after knocking down a few bricks i found some after separating the pupae i put them in the tube. Eagerly awaiting ninantics. Will give updates. Feel free to suggest names for the queen and a name for the colony.
Parasitic Lasius queens are incapable of caring for brood, including unwrapping pupae, meaning they will never hatch. You have to put adult workers in with her.
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