While on my trip in the sierras, I found a single queen of this species under a rock in a small park area. She was extraordinarily fast, which is strange considering how very slow she moves in the test tube...
Within a week, she laid 3 eggs. Since then, she has continued to lay more, and currently has a pile of around 10. I'm glad that a bunch of the species I have found up there this year seem to be laying eggs before hibernation....
I expect to see some larvae soon, and hopefully she will get a decent amount of workers before hibernation.
Here is a picture of her:
I will probably not get any more pics of her until she gets workers, as she has continually been hanging out on the side of the tube, where getting good pictures are very difficult for me, and stressful for her.
If, next year, I manage to find any uinta queens(found in drier areas of the same place), I will add it to this journal.
