;) That is good news. Good luck.
Nice pictures . Is it Messor barbarus?
MfG Sinthoras
No it is Messor structor, I found it myself. And barbarus is not living in our country.
How are the ants doing now?
In Slovakia live somethink like Messor structor (maybe it live in Hungary) .... Messor muticus ,I found young queen 1-2 weeks ago and she has cca 15-20 eggs now.
My formica colony is all right. I put them in an arena. They eat every insects I put there. There are lots of larvas they are bigger and bigger. I created an Ytong nest, I will connect it to the arena later.
My Messor queen had no eggs last time I see her. But I gave her big (winged) Tetramorium pupas. She eat them, she left and adopted only a worker larva. I think she will be all right, with this much protein she can restart her colony.
Skippy: I did not heard this Messor muticus yet. I read and found only structor in Hungary.
Looks like you are doing a great job acerola. ;)
Tanks Jimmy. I made a picture fom the Formica nest. They put some debris near the larva now. Maybe it is to help the development of pupas.
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7245/img626001sa0.jpg
Nice picture.
I also think you making nice pictures ,but I cannot open your page :(
Skippy