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Trying to add a heat cable to my ant test tube as my room gets pretty cold, is this a decent set up for the heat cable and thermometer? These are t immigrants and the thermometer has them seeing at about t 24-25c right now. Is this level of activity good they keep moving back and forth to the heat cable I’m just concerned it’s overheating them without the cable it drops to about 19c. The corks are just to keep the tube from rolling

My tetramorium immigrant queen has 7 nanitics currently and laid these eggs that are now larvae as shown in the picture it took them about 8 weeks to get to this stage is this a normal timeline? I feed them egg whites every other day for protein, I don’t heat the test tube and my room sits roughly at 24-25c on average. I do own a heat cable should I set that up under the test tube?

Caught 10 lasius neoniger queens in SE Michigan today couldn’t be happier

Got a ton of ant hills all over and around my driveway these guys in this photo have their hill in the grass off the side of my walkway, they are on top of a sugar water cotton ball, originally thought t immigrants but after the close up I don’t think so maybe the lasius family?

Hey everyone brand new to ant keeping just found this ant outside my house after a big rain yesterday, I just got into ant keeping and can’t tell for sure if it’s a queen. If it is I’d assume it’s Camponotus pennsylvanicus? I live in the Detroit Michigan area any help would be appreciated!