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if you want to do laboratory grade studies on her it probably interferes, if you just want to keep ants she'll probably be fine

looks good to me tho I wouldn't make a "founding chamber" as a test tube setup is often the most perfect living area for them until 10-20 workers, when you could instead 3d print a formicarium for them from the material you'd use here Look up my posts for my 3d formicarium and if you like it I can g...

damn what a beauty

It could be printed as 3D printers can make "fabric" from hair thin lines, but it would be fragile I think so it's better to use some flexible pre made plastic mesh like the anti-mosquito one for example

Small invertebrates like Drosophila are perfect for semi-claustral queens. If you have trouble finding them in your area, you could always make food for them (most kinds of flour or mashed root vegetable, mixed with vinegar) and wait for the flies to come to you. Winged flies aren't as convenient, ...

An Ectomomyrmex astutus with 2 developed larvae and a Myrmica that I have no further info of as for now but they are mostly semi so I'm feeding her just to make sure Ectomomyrmex is living in her outworld terrarium currently not connected to the huge ytong nest (1k+ worker capacity) because they are...

Yes most likely, I feed my 2 semi queens cricket/mealworm parts, fruit flies, some random citrus fruit, honeywater and they are doing fine as far as I can tell

Probably the eggs won't hatch without care and also without a queen a colony can not be sustained

As far as my knowledge goes GMO crops are usually treated with the BT protein ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_thuringiensis ), you can do a little research on it but I fear it does affect ants as well

Who can tell me how to upload images to this forum, img and /img is so difficult for using. There is a hotkey for it on this bar when posting http://img03.imgland.net/iT-jsZo.png This one: http://img.imgland.net/M2chS.png Also great pictures! The ant head on the first picture in the center is a bit...