🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Week 10 | An Unexpected Move Into the New Arena 📈 Current Status Queen: 1 Workers: approx. 16 Brood: moved along with the colony Nest location: no longer in the test tube

🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Week 9 | More Brood and a New Arena 📈 Current Status Queen: 1 Workers: approximately 16 Brood: significantly increased The colony continues to develop very well. With around

🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Week 8 | The Arena Is Slowly Coming to Life 📈 Current Status Queen: 1 Workers: 12 Brood: still present in all stages, although it appears slightly reduced because several

🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Week 7 | The Colony Is Becoming More Active 📈 Current Status Queen: 1 Workers: 10 Brood: still present and developing Last week I reported the first newly emerged worker.

🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Week 6 | The First New Worker Has Arrived 📈 Current status Queen: 1 Workers: 7 Brood: still present, with visible larval development The colony was started in May 2026 and

🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Week 5 | More Activity & First Reactions to the Setup Even though the colony is still quite small, their behavior is slowly starting to change more noticeably. Over the

🐜 Inside the Nest – My Messor barbarus Colony Is Exploding With Brood A few months ago this colony consisted of only: one queen 5 workers and some brood Now the entire nest feels alive. The biggest difference

🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Week 4 Update | First Signs of a Future Move? The colony is still living inside the test tube, but their behavior is slowly starting to change. 📈 Current status The colony

🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Week 3 Update At first glance, not much has changed — but looking a bit closer, there are small signs of progress. 📈 Current status The colony is still in an early stage,

🐜 From 5 Workers to 500 – My Messor barbarus Colony After 9 Months From just a handful of ants to a fully active colony of around 500 — this is how my Messor barbarus developed over the past 9 months.

🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Week 2 Update It’s been about a week since I introduced my new colony, so here’s a small update on their progress. 📈 Colony development The colony is still in a very early

🐜 Camponotus nicobarensis – Colony Start (Week 1) Today I want to introduce my new ant colony and the setup I prepared for them. 🔬 About the species Camponotus nicobarensis is a fast-growing ant species

The birth of a new colony.

Hello lovely Hiveans ! I already showed in previous posts how we prepared a nest and an arena for our ant colony and how they evolved in the first month. After that, the colony went into the winter rest.

Hello lovely Hiveans ! I already showed and explained all the parts of the ant farm, which are the arena and the gypsum nest. I also talked about the nutrition plan based on seeds and grains in combination

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Hello lovely Hiveans ! I already showed and explained the arena and the gypsum nest of the ant farm and showed how my wife and son prepared them so that the colony is happy with it in the end. I also talked

Hello lovely Hiveans ! In my last entry about our Ant Farm Project I showed and described the arena and the nest to you in a bit more detail. In this episode I like to show to you how the arena is decorated

Hello lovely Hiveans ! Today I want to show you some really cool things that my wife bought recently for her and our son as a new hobby and nature science experiment. He recently showed huge interest into