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Post by occultus on Aug 3, 2015 19:24:35 GMT
Lasius niger Queen - 03/08/15I was outside laying down the new decking in my garden today and just out of the corner of my eye, I happen to notice a lone wingless Lasius niger Queen scrambling around a pile of concrete debris. She has been placed in a nice new test-tube set up and will remain in a dark place until I check on her on 01/09/15 I'm chuffed that I was able to catch a Lasius Queen this year as I thought I'd miss the Nuptial flight when I go away for two weeks this August. I have been checking the local L.niger nests daily for the past two months and I can safely say that the Nuptial flights still haven't happened in my area. Usually its a mass flight with millions of queens but the weather has been less than perfect this summer. Queen Glwadys A nice test-tube cocoon(cotton and parcel tape).
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Post by Antkeeper on Aug 4, 2015 11:00:31 GMT
Good luck with your new Queen!
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Post by occultus on Oct 7, 2015 21:18:22 GMT
Queen Glwadys now has a nice little colony. They are living inside a new acrylic nest from anthouse.es. The size of her gaster has ballooned massively over the past few weeks. I really enjoy watching these young hardy workers fetching sugar water back to feed the rest of the colony. Colony update 07/10/15 by Colony update 07/10/15 by
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Post by occultus on Feb 23, 2016 22:42:59 GMT
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Post by occultus on May 6, 2016 22:54:44 GMT
Good 'ol' niger. You have to love them, nothing much ever really goes wrong and the number of workers slowly grows 20160506_191154 by che hawkins, on Flickr Lots of the workers were busy eating a cricket during this photo.
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