best place to look for Camponotus
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best place to look for Camponotus
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I live in a small city about 2 hours east of Toronto Ontario. This will be my first year were I have a chance to get a queen. Like toronto my city has parks, lots of cement, and is on the lake so my question is where should I look for a nice big Camponotus queen?
I live in a small city about 2 hours east of Toronto Ontario. This will be my first year were I have a chance to get a queen. Like toronto my city has parks, lots of cement, and is on the lake so my question is where should I look for a nice big Camponotus queen?
Re: best place to look for Camponotus
Look near rotting wood or near sandy soils. These are their favorite habitats.
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Re: best place to look for Camponotus
Around the northern forests of North America, the Camponotus queens will find you (May through June). Best to look around forests. If you want to keep Camponotus, then it's best to start with your own queen.
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Re: best place to look for Camponotus
Another place to look is under stones but, it isnt the most common place to find them. Best places are stumps or rotting logs.
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Re: best place to look for Camponotus
I've actually had the most luck finding them under large flat stones on hot days. For removing a colony that is going to be destroyed due to construction or pesticides in people's yards that I know I've used the technique of bringing over a large flat stone and leaving it on top of the nest enterance for a week or two. I wait until the weather is nice and warm and lift the stone ready to capture the queen first and then go for the rest of the brood and workers. They will often bring them all to the surface under the rock to warm them. I don't recommend capturing colonies this way as you are sentencing the rest of the colony to die out but when the colony is going to be destroyed anyway that method has worked wonders.ItShallBeJordan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2017 12:08 pmAnother place to look is under stones but, it isnt the most common place to find them. Best places are stumps or rotting logs.
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Thank you all for the info and knowledge. once I find her and put her in a test tube setup will keeping them in a shoebox tucked away be ok?
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Re: best place to look for Camponotus
A shoebox will be fine just make sure they do not get too cold.
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Re: best place to look for Camponotus
I have another question. I'm planning out my setup for after the test tube stage. Is useing dirt ok for them?
Re: best place to look for Camponotus
Dirt is fine but you may not be able to view them very well so keep that in mind.
Re: best place to look for Camponotus
I was thinking on useing a ant farm like the old ones from the 50s. But putting dirt in it instead of the sand stuff. The one I'm looking at has ports to connect more then one together so that's what I will use to connect the outworld. So it would be very thin.
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