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Summer 2020, Found many many lasius cocoons which I introduced to my queen and her few hosts alive, the queens has now 70 hosts. In August she started laying eggs and they enclosed about a month after (weird) but it was time to get em to sleep so that's what I did, they were in diapause for 3.5 months.
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march 2021, larvae are starting to spin into cocoons!!! There's about 10-13 of them but I didn't had any host cocoons so the first and second cocoons were opened to early and one was ate...
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26 March, first cocoon was successfully opened!!!! And the worker survived for 48h! Second bio enclosed from the cocoon a day after and the other surprise was that the early opened worker did survive!!!!
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April 10, I'm trying to get host cocoons so the other cocoons can hatch easily and without danger of getting killed, fourth bio enclosed too!!! The first three bios are caring for young brood and hosts are caring for the cocoons and the hosts are starting to die so I'll have to get a few more cocoons to get em going but most hosts are still strong and going good
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Picture of a bio worker of claviger