Hello everyone!

My roommate and I recently put together our own habitat and collected some specimens from the local park that we can across.
Currently, we both a large amount of ants now and they have thoroughly dug out the entirety of the sand and we have been psyched to watch them work!

We've had them for about three weeks now, we made sure to collect male and female swarmers but we have yet to see them breed or are unable to tell if their is a queen yet so the population can continue to populate itself. The queens will come up to the surface and tromp around with the males but we've yet to see anything that would signify impregnation.

I hope you guys can help me with a few questions I have in mind since there is relatively little to no information on the internet about them.

1.) Is the queen capable of asexual reproduction or must it be impregnated?

2.) What conditions can we surround their habitat so as to influence the possibility of it occuring? The only clue we had is that they generally spawn after it rains heavily in the area but we have yet to see any difference in keeping them moist with spraying lightly water over top.

We have been keeping videos of their progress and posting it on youtube. I'll make sure to post the link next time I come back.

Thank you very much for your time!

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