Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Colony #1)
3-16-20
Up to 16 workers, with around 30 large larvae and pupae and about 35-40 eggs and small larvae. I am moving them into a clean tube with new sand.
Crematogaster lineolata (Colony #2)
3-16-20
She has 5 larvae and a bunch of eggs now, with one of the larvae just about ready to pupate.
Crematogaster lineolata (Colony #1)
3-16-20
I forgot what @ANTdrew and I named this queen, but she just laid a batch of around 300-400 eggs, and the brood she over wintered (600-700 microlarvae) is all pupae and large larvae now. A die off of about 50 workers took place earlier in the month, but I'm not worried as they were all the smallest workers, and she still has 375-425 workers. Her colony is about to triple in size! I expect alates this year, so I hope they don't disappoint!
Nylanderia cf. terricola (Colony #1)
3-16-20
Up to about 175 workers, and the queen just laid a large batch of eggs containing about 100 eggs. The brood pile is ever growing, and it's reached about 300 pieces of brood.
Formica integra (Colony #1)
3-16-20
By the time it warms up enough to get the rest of the colony, their pheromones would have changed too much, so I guess I'll keep two colonies. One with one queen and one with two.
Anyways, into the update! The queen has been an egg laying machine, laying eggs every other day. Three hosts have died, but she still has 12, and..... They have more than 60 eggs and small larvae!!! Parasitic Formica are just as easy as I remember them being...
Formica pallidefullva (Colony #1)
3-16-20
Up to 31 workers, with lots of brood. The queens are always laying new eggs, and the brood pile contains about 50 items, mostly eggs and small larvae.
Aphaenogaster tennesseensis (Colony #1)
3-16-20
First time I've checked on them in about a week, and she has 3 hosts left, but she has 2 parasitic workers! The brood pile is slowly growing, and contains a few pupae, some larvae and a couple eggs.
Edited by Ant_Dude2908, March 16 2020 - 9:57 AM.