Betsy update

Betsy's colony seems to be doing extremely well. I gave them a couple of pieces of meal worm today and they went crazy within 15 minutes. This seems to be there favourite thing put of everything I offer them. I'm estimating she has about 25+ workers at this point.

Darlene the Australian Sugar Ant has larvae (Camponotus Consobrinus)

Darlene, my other Sugar Ant queen has a lot more larvae than Esme. She is also much calmer than Esme and has a much bigger gaster (butt) so I'm predicting her colony will do better too. I gave her some fruit juice this morning but she wasn't interested - maybe she's just not a morning person?

Aggie's Ant Family

Aggie (Nylanderia queen?)and her colony are still happily residing under the mouldy cotton wool ball... The colony seems to be increasing in size too - I don't like to bother them though so I cant be too sure of numbers. Today I put a small piece of banana and meal worm in their outworld and within one minute workers came to check it out. Here is the first lucky (hungry) worker.

Betsy's Ant Family

I haven't seen Betsy (Nylanderia queen, we think) since she moved into the ant farm on December 28 last year, but her little colony seems to be going very well! They have made several tunnels and eat lots of things, but mealworms are their favourite. There are lots of eggs and larvae hidden in the corner near where I let them in originally. It was hard to get a photo, but here is the best one I could get today.

Another worker for B

17/12/11
Title says it all really, we have another worker today :-)
Can't see much in A's test tube, but I'm pretty sure there are only still larvae in there.
The new queen has layed a couple of tiny eggs, but she seems quite timid and would prefer to hide under her cotton wool ball.