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It's been more than a month since I have found my 4 L.niger queens. They laid eggs, which grew a lot since then. One queen laid some more eggs 1 week ago. Maybe the other too but I can't see them.
I found another queen, but I'm running out of test tubes, I'll have to find some more if I want to catch other queens this summer, particularly to try other species.
I wonder how long it'll take for the first workers to come out. I remember something like 3 months but it's not very accurate, and it was last year during autumn, maybe it's faster during summer - I don't have a lot of experience, it's been only a year I breed ants.
Speaking of that, my first colony's queen died in the beginning of february from unknown causes and I kept the colony to see how long they could live without a queen. They were something like 25 workers (L.niger again) and I still see at least one living worker, which must be something like 10 months old.
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