Hello everybody,
here some photos of my new colony of Tetramorium impurum
The queen was collected on 07/02/2010
http://www.peerates.org/insetti/index.php/image/0/Altro/DSC_0542_particolare.JPG
She started immediately to lay eggs, on 07/08/2010
http://www.peerates.org/insetti/index.php/image/0/Altro/DSC_0660_particolare.JPG
on 07/18/2010, some pupae can be seen
http://www.peerates.org/insetti/index.php/image/0/Provette/11/DSC_0050_particolare.JPG
07/21/2010 the first two workers
http://formiche.peerates.org/sites/default/files/DSC_0114_particolare.jpg
today (07/24/2010) five workers and five pupae near to be workers
http://formiche.peerates.org/sites/default/files/DSC_0186_particolare.JPG