Hello all I have caught three Tetramorium queens so far this season, I wasnt going to make a journal until their workers started to arrive. But I can across a grouping of pupae while anting the other day and thought I would try my hand at brood boosting.
So after collecting some of the pupae brood boosted my experimental queen, I'm calling queen c for now, with some great success.
Picture when I just added the pupae, I'm guessing it was around 20-25
This was after this first night i woke up and found one them had enclosed and was helping her rearrange the nest
The next day when more started to enclose I fed them some raw honey and some frozen fruit flies
Now they have around 10 workers total and are loving the food I gave them, the queen already has laid more eggs, her initial eggs are now larva. After the rest of the pupae enclose I should be able to move them into a Formicarium finally
I'm so excited
I just wanted to say thank you all for your help on here, I'm having a great first season anting. I have 5 queens now and 3 different species.