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[Steph17]

Hello, here I will describe the progression of my 2 [later 1] Lasius niger queens/colonies. After a failed attempt to begin a Lasius umbratus colonie I waited untill the Lasius niger colony in my backyard had their nuptial flight [I waited a month ! ].
But at last on 10-07-2014 i've caught 2 wingless queens in test tubes, and a few days later they allready layed their first eggs !
And since then not much has changed, I think some eggs have hatched in the first larvea but there is not much more to tell.
The plan is to keep 1 of the 2 colonies and to sell or release the other colony.
Pictures are still comming and the next update will be when the first workers arrive .

[Steph17]

As promissed some pictures:

Close-up of Queen "B"

Queen B in her test tube

Close-up of Queen "A"

Queen A in her test tube

[Steph17]

Quik little update, today I found a lot of Lasius niger brood in my garden and as a little experiment I did it in Queen A's test tube { I'm not going to keep her anyway so if anything goes wrong it doesn't matter}. If it succeeds then Queens A is getting her first workers a lot faster. Normally I'm agains brood boosting but Queen A hasn't a lot of brood to start with and like I said before she is going away anyway.
The next update wil really be when the first worker arrive.

[lossanmu]

i got Lasius niger but they dont tend to lay to many eggs most egg one of them laid is 5 and its not going upp i se notthing wrong i got them in test tube and i got queen that laid one egg and it hatch and not laying any more eggs for some reason.

[Sojave]

Maybe the winterpreparations are done in your country. You have to wait for the end of the winter. Put the setup in a colder place, give them some food until they dont move anymore.

[lossanmu]

Maybe the winterpreparations are done in your country. You have to wait for the end of the winter. Put the setup in a colder place, give them some food until they dont move anymore.

its september 23 no snow

[Steph17]

The last update was a while ago.
Not much has happend actualy, I have now a total of 2 workers. I find that suprisingly little !
Can someone tell me why that is ? The winter is aproaching and such a small colony can't survive the hibernation right ?
(No pictures this time )