>>2948961
Things are well, but developing slowly. Their activity definitely went down as things got colder.

The messor barbarus is making things a little difficult; she hasn't managed to make a single worker and keep it alive yet. I'm not sure what you'd call it, but all 3 of her descendants died shortly after birth.
Time will tell, I'm hoping it was just stress.
The lasius niger queen is establishing her colony well, 10 or so workers at the moment.
So it's just very slow progress overall, but thanks for asking anon.

>>2947301
Yeah, it's a lot more in-depth than one might think at first.