it's been a while.
The small cocoons i caught were in fact drones. Great. i should have expected it, the development was much to slow to have been normal workers.
Lots have hatched, only two are alive right now. ones that have previously hatched have died, possibly the queen hasn't fed them or maybe it's something else. She does however pick their carcasses clean.
All of them have been... retarded? They lie on their backs and twitch...
I don't know if the queen should usually get them on their feet or if that's something they should do themselves.
A bit of good news. A worker has hatched! i believe this is from the Queens larvae, as if it were one of the brood i collected and introduced it would have hatched much sooner.
It was initially on its back, so i decided to stick my tweezers in and flip him over. It worked.
Something else was odd though. She was only moving wither front two legs, the other four were tucked underneath her. I checked up later in the day and she was using four out of the six. Hopefully by tomorrow she will be walking normally.
Something that i am a bit concerned about is if the worker will be able to take over brood care from the queen. Is the knowledge instinctual or learned?
