New queen with 1 worker and no eggs

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mcarney51
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New queen with 1 worker and no eggs

Post: # 49777Post mcarney51
Sat Sep 08, 2018 12:05 pm

Hi.
This is my first queen. I successfully kept her in a test tube until she laid eggs and hatched a single worker, at which point she ran out of water. After several botched moves she has moved into a nest with her 1 worker but has no eggs.

I am not sure what to do.

Will she lay more eggs? I bought a test tube portal and new test tubes but can't access her without opening up (destroying) the nest I made.

Also, she refused the dead bugs I have placed in her home, though has eaten the sugar I gave her.

Now, the queen and her worker just huddle together in one of the tunnels, usually mouth to mouth.

Is there still a chance this can become a colony?

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idahoantgirl
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Re: New queen with 1 worker and no eggs

Post: # 50088Post idahoantgirl
Tue Sep 11, 2018 11:23 pm

What nest have you moved her into? Pictures?
Proverbs 6:6-8

Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.

Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile

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