This Brachymyrmex queen is one of several that I have. This particular one has several larvae as well as some eggs. Other than that, she has been extremely boring.
Next, this is one of my Lasius neoniger queens with brood. As you can see, her brood pile is enormous, so she will likely spawn a colony. This ant’s brood reminds me of another L. neoniger queen, The Proliferator.
Next, this is The Acorn Empire, my Temnothorax longispinosus colony. They are tiny black ants that are quite easy to keep, as long as they are unable to escape. The queen, who is in the lower middle of the photo, is named The Nutty Queen. They are commonly called acorn ants because, in the wild, they live inside acorns, of all places.
Lastly, here is The Ruby Dynasty, a Temnothorax curvispinosus colony. They are tiny ants, only a couple of millimeters long. The queen, who is in the middle, is named The Royal Ruby. Like Temnothorax longispinosus, these ants also live in acorns. Colonies of both Temnothorax longispinosus and Temnothorax curvispinosus apparently max out in size at roughly a hundred workers because their eggs are large, so the queen can only fit enough eggs in her gaster at any time to keep the colony at this seemingly small size.
