Six becomes five

My Camponotus cruentatus are doing fine, albeit expanding slowly. There were six workers, but one died last week. In any case, there are a few pupae and more workers will be born very soon.

Second Callow

The second Camponotus cruentatus callow ant was born yesterday. I was able to watch it all happening, but only took pictures at the end. The queen and first worker carefully took it out of the cocoon and started to clean it. After a few minutes of being tended to by her mother and sister, she slowly started moving her legs... Very beautiful to watch.

First callow

The Camponotus cruentatus queen has had her first callow ant born. It was, in fact, bigger than I expected. She is doing well and she seems to be very healthy and active, constantly tending to the other pupae.

Not quite dead

This is my Camponotus cruentatus queen, still in the test tube. Here she finds out that the centipede I gave her is not quite dead :)

Here's the youtube link for the same video: http://youtu.be/GQaPPbRY90Y