okay guys so i come home from work and i go check my ants to put them into hibernation and when i go check my ANTS ARE GONE ! after checking i found that my girlfriend dumped them in this container after checking the container i see no signs of ants (1 queen about 3 workers) so i scramble and add the original test tube with water and food inside to see if they will come back inside.... couple hours later i recheck and the food is gone but no ants inside tube so I'm thinking to myself well at least i know they are in here so i just added more honey to at least keep them fed.... i start thinking to my self well they weren't doing so well in the test tube anyways since i raised her in a jar until she had her first workers and in the test tube she wasn't doing very good so maybe this isn't so bad.
what should i do now ? should i just skip this years hibernation (1st one) and put them into hibernation next year ?
{ below are some pictures of the container and what i did }