She doesn't look like a Lasius Niger or Neoniger, and she was doing something interesting when I found her, I noticed a small Lasius colony being raided by Carpenter Ants, they were in the process of carrying off the Queen, defenders, and young brood when I noticed a small Queen running past the Carpenter ants with a Pupae in her mandibles. I watched her go back and back again until she stopped coming I then went and flipped the rock she was under to find several pupae piled in a neatly dug claustral chamber, surprisingly she didn't steal larvae or eggs, only five pupae.
I thought this was interesting because I've never seen a Queen act like this, I have her in a temporary set up until a few new workers emerge and can transport the rest to a better set up, she's mothering them well, cleaning them constantly and even acting aggressive when I take a look at their set up. I'm honestly not sure if she was just a sister to those being killed and heard the distress calls, or if she's some kind of a social parasite Queen who took full advantage of the situation.
Either way she's an interesting find and is definitely getting her own journal. So here she is with the pupae, Lasius something.
