Hitch3’s Camponotus Consobrinus Journal
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:54 am
Hi all,
This is a journal for my Camponotus Consobrinus colony. It currently has 1 queen, no workers, lots of eggs, and a couple small larvae.
Some information on the queen:
She was caught on the 4th December 2017. She was put straight into a test tube setup. She then raised her first brood to the beginning of the larval stage before eating them because of stress on the 28th December 2017. After that, I moved her to a Ant’s Australia size 1 founding formacarium (Acrylic.) She then laid her second batch of eggs on the 4th January 2018. I fed her a drop of honey and a cricket leg on the 10th of January 2018 because she would need extra energy and protein for the extra month that she had to fast for her first workers. She gobbled that up quickly. I have left her alone in a dark cupboard from then on.
Now that this journal is up to date, I will continue to update weekly. Pictures in next post.
Cheers!
This is a journal for my Camponotus Consobrinus colony. It currently has 1 queen, no workers, lots of eggs, and a couple small larvae.
Some information on the queen:
She was caught on the 4th December 2017. She was put straight into a test tube setup. She then raised her first brood to the beginning of the larval stage before eating them because of stress on the 28th December 2017. After that, I moved her to a Ant’s Australia size 1 founding formacarium (Acrylic.) She then laid her second batch of eggs on the 4th January 2018. I fed her a drop of honey and a cricket leg on the 10th of January 2018 because she would need extra energy and protein for the extra month that she had to fast for her first workers. She gobbled that up quickly. I have left her alone in a dark cupboard from then on.
Now that this journal is up to date, I will continue to update weekly. Pictures in next post.
Cheers!