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[Psynapse85]

Hi, I have a colony of Lasius flavus for 4 months in a test tube...they were 12 workers at the beginning, started to die (4), the queen layed some eggs, but they didnt hatch. The tube is in the arena (plastic one - in a dark place) and they have dead insects, honey with water, sugar, water gel and the room temperature is 25ºC. Now, my workers leaved the queen and just disappeared. I can see some holes in other tubes that I put in the arena with cotton (and water), but I cant see them. What am I doing wrong? I choose lasius for being easy to keep, but this is a tiny nightmare (and frustrating )...Iv tryed to put water in the first tube with a needle, but that caused a lot of stress in the queen, so I stopped, thinking that the workers could collect their water and humify that nest...but it seems VERY dry. In 4 months, I just could see the queen eat an insect 2 times...all other were laying dead in the arena...

Should I move the queen to another tube? How can I do that? How can I moist the cotton in the dead end?

TY, and sorry for my bad english

[highered]

Create a new tube with water and cotton wool and leave it covered with their current nest uncovered and hopefully they should move. You could just use a box with moist cotton wool. Maybe the water gel doesn't work? I've never used it myself.