So I have been keeping a polygynous Formica. sp colony, as you can see from my journal here:
https://www.formicul...ica-subsericea/ (don’t know how to make the link shorter)
I am aware that they don’t hibernate with brood, and recently I have brood boosted them and little did I know it there was eggs! I know that is did not get them from the colony that I used to boost them because I saw one of my queen lay with my own eyes. At first I thought they were they were trophic eggs, but the egg pile was growing slowly, now it has been 5 days, and they still don’t eat them, and the callows are usually seen in charge of them, if not, it’s the queen’s job. So why is this happening, usually they stop laying somewhere in August in my experience and they never hibernate with brood.
Is it because their internal clock is messed up? 
