SO the first test was to see if californicus from the wild ate more then the ones in testubes. To conduct this i took 20 specimens from about 16 colonies. I first offered them Fruit flies, then Honey, Then sugar water. The wild californicus's denied the fruit flies, but willing took the honey and sugar water. the ones in test tubes ate fruit flies, No honey at all, and rarely (very rarely) sugar water.
The next test was only with the wild ones. How do pogonomyrmex colonies live so close to each other, without any type of warfare going on? I put five workers from a foreign colony into another colony. They immediately started dragging them out, without stinging or injuring. Once far enough they released them, Almost like they were directing them to the location they need to go in. No aggression was shown at all in this experiment!
The final test of this week was finding out how great their architecture was. With the specimens i got from the wild i put them in a box(very scientific) with dirt. They didn't begin to dig until i wet one area.They then dug into that spot. Within two days they had three openings to the hole, and were still working on it. During this process they were fed sugar water, and were offered regular water. Over a period of time i noticed that the dirt they took out of the ground while excavating was going upward to the top of the box, and i found that one had escaped. Keep in mind the box wasn't as big as you probably thought. Ill continue to update this ~
Your first one is inaccurate, because as far as I know, you have Bicolor ones in the test tube, and there are only Concolorous ones around here, and I as well am actually doing the third one- with just about every species I have, for my formicarium project which I will be posting about soon. 
