GyneNoobs pavement ant journal

[GyneNoob]

My cat found this beauty in the bedroom on Tuesday early morning. Must have either came in through the window or picked her up while I ran outside to close the umbrella during the rain.
https://i.imgur.com/5FbKfmN.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/aTHSvEw.jpg

Yesterday after work I checked on her and she has eggs already.
https://i.imgur.com/lQYR7zv.jpg

[SolenopsisKeeper]

My cat found this beauty in the bedroom on Tuesday early morning. Must have either came in through the window or picked her up while I ran outside to close the umbrella during the rain.
https://i.imgur.com/5FbKfmN.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/aTHSvEw.jpg

Yesterday after work I checked on her and she has eggs already.
https://i.imgur.com/lQYR7zv.jpg

Nice! Looking forward to future updates on this queen

[GyneNoob]

I caught 10 more queens this morning.

[GyneNoob]

All queens now have eggs. I have most in single queen tubes, but I have one setup of 2 queens and one setup of three queens together.

[GyneNoob]

This morning one of the queens drowned in the tube. The cotton ball wasn't pushed in correctly and leaked. This queen had eggs so before I left for work, I carefully picked them up with opened tweezers and put them into another tube with another queen, Assuming since I caught all these queens at the same time and in the same area that they are most likely sisters. Upon arriving home after work the new queen did take the eggs.
I'll post pictures once imgur wants to upload.

[GyneNoob]

Here is the second queen with adopted eggs and her own eggs. Picture taken yesterday.
https://i.imgur.com/s5eoZIs.jpg
While getting ready for bed my cat was playing in the bathtub and low and behold the drowned queen was resurrected and climbed out of the waste basket and found her way into the bathtub.
I checked for the dead queen in the waste basket, there's nothing. So the Jesus queen is back in her tube but with no eggs. Lol.

[SolenopsisKeeper]

Here is the second queen with adopted eggs and her own eggs. Picture taken yesterday.
https://i.imgur.com/s5eoZIs.jpg
While getting ready for bed my cat was playing in the bathtub and low and behold the drowned queen was resurrected and climbed out of the waste basket and found her way into the bathtub.
I checked for the dead queen in the waste basket, there's nothing. So the Jesus queen is back in her tube but with no eggs. Lol.

This happend with a termite alate. The ants were surprised it came back to life

[GyneNoob]

Just checked on the Jesus Queen, she has 3 eggs.

[SolenopsisKeeper]

Just checked on the Jesus Queen, she has 3 eggs.

Wow. Coming back from drowning, Immediately going back to egg laying.

[GyneNoob]

Right! Like nothing happened. She is looking around for her first set of eggs, but I can't tell which are which.