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asiletto: new Polyrhachis dives colony (29. Jan 2014 15:06)

Here's my new Polyrhachis cfr. dives colony, started from a single queen caught in november in Khao Yai, Thailand. Small colony and still in a test tube, opened a few days ago in a small arena. The ants quickly closed the entrance of the test tube with silk.

The queen

http://www.siletto.it/system/files/p1.jpg

Larvae and pupae

http://www.siletto.it/system/files/p4.jpg

First hatched worker

http://www.siletto.it/system/files/worker.jpg

The colony now

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asiletto: Re: new Polyrhachis dives colony (9. Mär 2014 22:56)

Now there are about 25 workers and the same number of big larvae and pupae.

I cannot see anymore inside the test tube, which has been covered with silk.

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