Workers are emerging!

The lab is getting started! We’ve moved into our new space and the first founding queens I brought to the lab are finally getting their first workers. We do have other more mature colonies, but these are special – the foundresses.

Otherwise, the comparative adventure of trophallactic fluid is beginning. Marie-Pierre has been contacting labs around the world to set up this exciting project to explore the evolution of this social fluid and the social circulatory system.