4 lasius niger queens

I have 4 lasius niger queens in tubes. All of them have brood, one of them has 3 pupa one naked and the other two not lol weird. Another queen has lots of brood including one big larva and the rest have only eggs but they still have quite a lot of them. When the first ants hatch I'm going to put them in a see through box with a bit of sand in it with food and water, then with a tube going to connect it to an ant world.

I'm going to keep this posted on how the queens are doing.....

Nice!
Mine did the same I got 2 queens at the same time and they laid at the same time but there brood differentiated for some reason

Maybe cause of temps,humidity in their tube ammount of exposure to light, maybe one was prepared to raise young and the other one wasn't.

i have now got 3 pupa and one naked pupa and lots of big fat larva and one of the other queen has a pupa and a couple of fat larva ill try and take some pictures soon

1 of the queens has now got 8 pupa and some small larva another one has 1 pupa, larva and eggs.

Cool my queen lost her brood i think unless she pulled the thing she did last time the good old make a bed for my babies!LOL!

something strange happened
my queens were next to the radioter and i when i checked on them some kind of liquid had went over all of the brood and then froze them, and all the queens were in a corner lol

so i went on a recuie mission and got the queens out and put them into nice new tubes with a lot more water. The stuff holding the brood had turned into liquid again so i managed to get the brood out and put them back with the queens.

now they are in a cupboard in the dark so hopefully it wont happen again =]

That is strange...

i have now got 3 colonys because i have sold one of them to my friend
well the 3 colonys have now all got pupa and doing really well. i will put one of them into i a pumice stone nest which im buying from antkid.

one of my queens have got a worker and i have moved her into a small basin

I would reframe from putting them in a basin until theres 3-5 workers around. Just feed them from the tube for a while so there's no complications of losing workers etc.

i have taken them out, well nothen much has happened but i hope the pupa in the queen and worker nest hatch =]