The worker was attacking it so I removed the curvispinosus queen and the aggressive worker, leaving the cf duloticus queen with only 2 workers, 4 pupae, and 2 larvae.

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What founding method did you use for these parasitic lasius queens?
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For the first queen, I added two or three workers, let her kill them, and then threw her and around 100 workers into a nest. I then boosted them with hundreds of americanus pupae throughout founding.What founding method did you use for these parasitic lasius queens?
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Not long. Lasius americanus nests are pretty common under rocks, tiles, and in wood. I mostly stumbled across brood by accident.How long did it take you to find all those pupae?
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Nothing much has happened.
L. aphidicola colony 1 - still in diapause, only 2-300 workers have died so far
L. aphidicola colony 2 - has not started diapause yet, I am waiting for several pupae to eclose before I put them in
I have one L. aphidicola queen and two L. claviger queens without hosts that are also in diapause.
I wish you luck with claviger! Can't wait to see how the founding goes!
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