318197 Messor Barbarus

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21/07/11

My Barbarus queen arrived from antstore yesterday here is ther first few decent photo, this is not a SLR camera or using any macros, so images are not that great.

There are are only 2 workers but plenty of brood ;D





24/07/11

New worker today and a fourth should be with me soon.

Caught her laying an egg last night, or at least it looked like an egg

26/07/11

Worker NO: 4 hatched today so far so good all is going well.

Placed a nice sized fish flake in the test tube before work this afternoon, and they seemed to love it, got home 10.30 or so and its had almost gone.

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My ant set up from Fourmis arrived last week, I set it up & placed the test tube into the tank.

I have about 7 (more will be with me very soon) workers now, they are doing well. The queen has yet to move from the test tube and into the nest. They seem to only explore at night which is a shame as I thought they would be active during the day. They seem very shy & seem reluctant to explore to far away from the tube.

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07/08/11

Looked in on the colony today & worker number 9 is alive & kicking. Only ever see a maximum of 2 workers out of the nest at a time. I have only been offering grass seeds & the odd fish flake both seem to go down well.

Colony still within the test tube, really wish they would leave into the nice nest