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[baumarkthammer]

It is something totaly different, they´r not slaves but wrong species brood. Slaves are something different, you call it slavery when for example Queen a) (here it could be Formica sanguinea) takes brood and workers from queen b (here it could be nearly every random Serviformica). Parasitic colony founding is when queen a) (for example Formica rufa) gets in the nest and kills queen b) and sometimes most of the workers and lives in the nest and is feeden by the workers of queen b), which die and are replaced by the workers of queen b).
In the case of Lasius niger and Lasius flavus it is NO slavery. Most of the Lasius would take random Lasius brood and some don´t kill the other spec. afterwards but sometimes they do.
Keeping them together means that you have a queen of both spec..

[highered]

I checked again recently and most of the Lasius flavus have moved out, but the niger have not taken over their old nest. site.

[Hauerli]

so i added to my Lasius niger kolonie some puppets of Lasius flavus , and it works well . at the moment my kolonie have 30 Lasius niger and 10 Lasius flavus