Camponotus ligniperda (Two queens with one and 0 workers are both wild collected and the large colony is my first ant colony ever!)
Messor barbarus
Lasius niger(wild collected)
Manica rubida (wild collected)
Pheidole pallidula
Most of these workers are adopted!
Acromyrmex octospinosus
What they came in... and the new nest from a couple of days ago.
Octospinosus=6 spines on the thorax + 2 on the head?
Un identified ants. (all wild collected)
Parasite queen of formica? She was a slave (from cocoon) for this formica queen.
Formica sp. (sanguinea?) and slaves.
(For no apparent reason, both formica qeens and slaves ate the brood when it got to cocoon stage and died a week later
. I think I may have checked on them a bit too much before the end)
Found in a rotten stick. (8 queens. Workers 2-4mm)
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