Hey ya Jimmy, you have experience with Ponera´s?
When you put one puppae to young queen of Lasius for example, you didn´t won with the keeping of young colony from the queen....
But when you do it with Ponera, it´s more possible that you will keep a colony from them, than if you do with some Formicinae.....
I think you know this.... it´s just about social mentality of the species and things....
But really, Ponera with queen is doing better than single queen.. I will try to get some Ponera brood from nature and I will give it to some of mine queens.. I also don´t know how Ponera´s mated queens keeps their first brood, if they have cell like other ant species have, where they are coming with hunted food to feed them and brood, or if they moves their brood... Cause Ponera lives in small ecosytseme of soil... but I think it is also too big for them, that they can lost their pheromone tray..... I don´t know, I m not myrmecologiest, just amateur myrmecologiest.. but Ponera is really interesting for me....