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I recently found a colony of ants on a flower and i caught them and put them in an ac ant tower small which in hindsight it would have been better if i put them in a test tube since they were only about 5-6 workers strong and after a week they made some tunnells and a nest but i dont know if i caught a queen as i only see aant with a rly swollen gaster but because i think they are prenoleis imparis it could be a replete my question is this do you think the ants would build a nest if there was no queen. thx

I think most ants would make chambers and tunnels even if there were no queen because they need a place to stay. You can do some more research and see if you think you caught a queen because repletes look different from queen. If you did not catch a queen then you can release the workers back

already kept them for acouple weeks and they arent eating but the repletes do look healthy

If the repletes are full then they wont eat anything