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Well, since it was raining a bit Monday, I decided to take a trip to the park to see if the messor nest was up to anything. The rain by then, 3:00pm. had died down to occasional sprinkles so the ants were busy foraging. I also took this opportunity to try out some grass seeds I bought earlier, they seem to like it. I then followed them back to their two nest entrances, one of which was covered by a small rock the size of an average fist. Long story short, I flipped the rock and saw numerous reproductives (in pupae stage), workers and larvae; so I took a quick shovel of dirt and I was out of there, too many ants were swarming out. I got about 50 pupae/larvae and probably 100 workers. I got bit once on the pinky (or is it pinkie?) but it didn't really hurt at all. I put them in a 1.5 gallon hexagon aquarium with a large rock in the center and sifted clay sand from my yard. Attached to the side is a forage area, where they have stacked some of the dead (6 so far). They're still really busy right now, trying to organize and tunnel.

I'm going to try and breed them when the alates show up. I'll be taking trips back to the park to take temp/humidity readings as well was wind speed. I'm going to be using an old greenhouse to possibly release the alates when the time comes. It needs to patched up with screen instead of polyfilm so I better get to work. I've already successfully mated tetramorium caespitum using a 20 gallon tank when they decided to release the alates in the house. Well that's it. I'll post some pictures of the setup later today.