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There are special guides on keeping parasitic queens. Often this means raising a common species of queen (such as Formica subseria) and then stealing the brood and callows from that queens nest. You then introduce the parasitic queen to the brood and callows and hopefully she starts caring for them. (And they take care of her) and then she starts laying her own eggs and you have a colony.

This is considered "advanced antkeeping"

https://www.formiculture.com/topic/3252-much-ado-about-the-founding-of-lasius-temporary-social-parasites/

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