After Scar Smile moved into her founding nest, for some reason nanitics started dying. I concluded that the cause of the mysterious deaths was the new nest drying out too quickly. However, I realized this after all of the nanitics had died. In a last attempt to save the queen, I quickly crafted a recovery chamber consisting of a medium-size test tube setup, and an AntsCanada test tube portal, which acted as a mini foraging area. Once the temporary home was ready, I rescued the queen and some brood, as that was all that was remained of the colony. Fortunately, the queen was very cooperative and quickly moved into the test tube with her remaining babies. I also made sure to feed her to provide energy for a new set of nanitics. Not too long after this life-saving move, she had three new nanitics. This is how she would remain for the next couple of months while they reared another batch of nanitics. The new set consisted of ten pupae, four of which have now eclosed into adult ants. In the vast majority of cases, when a queen ant has fewer than four nanitics, she is doomed. However, that isn’t always the case, as Scar Smile is demonstrating.
