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?
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?
Update?
Update?
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!
I currently have aphidicola, claviger, umbratus, and subumbratus all of which are doing decent. Love lasius parasites!
We can tell that.I currently have aphidicola, claviger, umbratus, and subumbratus all of which are doing decent. Love lasius parasites!
I have no Lasius parasites right now (biggest aphidicola died out after diapause after the brood never grew + the queen never laid + I forgot to water their nest twice, I got scammed for the second one (other guy never shipped the ants that I traded him the aphidicola for), and the ones from this year were sold off/died while I was in Mississippi).
I have some L. aphidicola queens that I found in claustral chambers now and are now in the fridge. I probably missed L. claviger flights this year but maybe I can get L. interjectus next week.
claviger was flying like crazy a few weeks ago. I probably caught 40+ queens. Hopefully I can raise a few to workers. I had a aphidicola but she ate her eggs and died.I have no Lasius parasites right now (biggest aphidicola died out after diapause after the brood never grew + the queen never laid + I forgot to water their nest twice, I got scammed for the second one (other guy never shipped the ants that I traded him the aphidicola for), and the ones from this year were sold off/died while I was in Mississippi).
I have some L. aphidicola queens that I found in claustral chambers now and are now in the fridge. I probably missed L. claviger flights this year but maybe I can get L. interjectus next week.
Edited by Jonathan5608, October 22 2023 - 3:35 PM.
Warm weather next weekend may trigger some claviger flights I found one on Halloween a few years ago.I have no Lasius parasites right now (biggest aphidicola died out after diapause after the brood never grew + the queen never laid + I forgot to water their nest twice, I got scammed for the second one (other guy never shipped the ants that I traded him the aphidicola for), and the ones from this year were sold off/died while I was in Mississippi).
I have some L. aphidicola queens that I found in claustral chambers now and are now in the fridge. I probably missed L. claviger flights this year but maybe I can get L. interjectus next week.
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