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I am going to keep a camponotus colony of likely floridanus or pennsylvanicus and I can only keep them in my room because the rest of the house has pesticides and other various reasons. My room is always about 80 degrees in the day and dips down to 68 at night, it doesn't fluctuate fast, like, it's ...

Size: About 8mm When: 5/9/2024 11:30 AM Where: Backyard on my glass door Appearance: Dark red head, reddish-black thorax, dark red abdomen, dark red legs and antenna Behaviour: Moves a little bit but stays in one spot mostly, didn't run around while I was taking a photo/exposed to light for a few se...

Thanks for all the help guys!

Does anyone know what month Camponotus Discolor comes out for nuptial flights? is there a website I can use to figure this out? I'm assuming probably in April

I want to take care of a Camponotus(carpenter) ant species, I'm located in USA-Florida so any species southern usa would work But I don't just want an aggressive carpenter ant species, and the internet refused to tell me what species of carpenter ant live in florida besides Camponotus floridanus, wh...

What kind of a nest are they in? AC Hyrbid nest 2.0 Glass is glued to the top Well, once the ants are out you could shoot high pressure water through the holes to try to get it all out. Probably will do that. when I released them there were 7 living workers, and I checked the nest recently, they go...

antperson24 wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 03, 2023 3:07 pm

TheUltimateAnt wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 02, 2023 4:44 pm

antperson24 wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:25 am

You could just set it outside and see if they move out.

And what about the dirt inside the nest?

What kind of a nest are they in?

AC Hyrbid nest 2.0
Glass is glued to the top

Ya, she could have died from parasites. Are you going to let the colony go, or are you going to kill them? I would prefer to let them go, I already had to kill a few of the workers in the outworld after separating each enclosure. It hurt so much :( those were my little friends (I am a weird person)...

I don't think you need to, If they feel the need they will. Parasitic death?? Yellow Maggot looking things are latched onto the queen and are inside of it, and fungi is growing on her. I want to dispose of the colony, I felt so sick doing this but I plugged off all the tubing, some ants are trapped...

Well maybe since the queen is dead they of lost their purpose in life, so maybe they wont klean up the bodies. Thats pretty grim.. so how would I go about cleaning the bodys up from the nest? its a hybrid nest but the glass is permanently glued on I don't think you need to, If they feel the need th...