Found a Myrmica rubra queen ! cool

[shadowsong]

Today it was a warm day, compared to the rest of
this summer,
and by coincidence I stumbled upon a Myrmica rubra queen !

First I was thinking,
mmmmmmm,
that's a mighty big worker,
but once I saw a couple winged males I immediately captured
the "big worker".

After some closer looking I'm pretty sure it's a queen,
her middle part and back are a lot bigger then that of the workers.
But it's harder to see the difference with this species.

Once I pull of some decent pictures I'll post them.

I looked for a couple more hours but found no second
queen
What I kinda regret because this species can have more
then one queen in a nest.

I will look again tomorrow, since that is gonna be
an even hotter day.
I suppose I can put this queen in a test tube just
like I did with my Lasius niger queen?

I'm pretty happy to find a Myrmica rubra queen,
and I'm very much hoping to find a second !

edit: it's probably not good to put workers from the
old kolonie with the new queen?

[sammy]

Cool I found 5 one day, and it was hard to tell the difference but I had winged queens in there too and they were the same . It sounds like you do have a queen.

[shadowsong]

My queen still hasn't laid any eggs,

is it to late for that?
or is it to cold already or something?

will she be fine untill next summer?