. Yesterday where massive nuptial flights of Lasius Niger in Holland,and I of course caught a few queens. I first put them individually in test tubes to later put them together in a big testtube. But the queens though otherwise, they where very panicky and wouldn't go in the big test tube. I then did them in the fridge to literally cool down, once they where "chilled out" I had an easier time putting them in the testtube. The battle for dominance starting directly, I started with 6 queens and there is one dead already, I think bitten to death by here fellow queens. If the whole pleometrosis thing fails, I have a backup queen so that this blog doesn't run dry on content when they start to slaughter each other or something. I'm planning on checking on the queens a little more often than I would normally do, like once or twice per week.Here are some pictures:
