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[Ernteameise]

The colony today.

They have some larvae on the go (they like to stick the larvae to the wall above the water tower) and they also have a new pile of eggs.

 

 

Here you can see how they stick the larvae to the wall:

 

 

And their new pile of eggs:

 

[Ernteameise]

Huge new egg pile today!

You can see it next to the queen, she seems to be very proud and protective of it.

 

 

 

[Ernteameise]

Since it is Easter, there are even more new eggs.

And yes, that one male is still around.

 

 

[Ernteameise]

These girls continue to produce more brood

 

 

They also always carry a few seed into the nest, where they let them sprout and then they process them.

Different to my Messor ants, they never carry many seed into the nest, most of the seed stay in the food dish outside the nest.

They only seem to take as much as they can process at a time, so they do not create massive stores as Messor ants do.