Heyo! Long time no see.
Been quite a while since I last posted here, so I figured I'd give an update. Just a quick summary of the past five months.
First off, here's the founding queens I have right now. These are the ones without workers.
You'll notice there aren't many, and a few new ones from before. I haven't been anting much, but managed to find a few queens around.
On the left is a Formica, likely fusca group. That one is a bit of a sad story. She laid a few eggs that developed all the way to pupae, but only one made it to worker. I moved her over to my active queens rack for a little while, but the one worker died and there hasn't really been any brood since. That's why she has the feeder. Hopefully she recovers and lays a new batch. Here's a pic from a while ago..
The next two tubes I believe are tetramorium immigrans. I found three of them right on my doorstep all at once one day. I think this is one of them... (It's hard searching through old pictures and trying to remember what they were)
The next one I think is my last remaining Neoniger without brood. All the others have either died or gotten their workers. Two of them I've sold, and I still have three tubes remaining. One has about a dozen workers, the other two have one or two. More on them in my Lasius journal.
The last one is camponotus, I think pennsylvanicus. Found her in a log on a hike through the woods. I definitely felt quite awkward digging around in rotting old logs though...
Some of the queens I had before are now in the active queens rack, and so will be getting their own thread soon! Especially my p.imparis. if you recall, I had two tubes, each with three queens. They both got workers, but one of them... I go check one day and every thing in the tube is dead. All three queens, every single worker. I don't know what happened, and all of my other ants were fine. Oh well...
My other imparis, well....
