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Given your suggestion, I'm guessing it's Camponotus castaneus, based on comparisons of my workers to photos on AntWeb. I've never seen this species here. It makes me wonder why they've shown no interest in food that my C. pennsylvanicus guys like. At this point, we're having the first cool (50s-60s ...

Found this queen and a clutch of eggs at the end of July/beginning of August about 50 miles north of Lake Charles, Louisiana. I found her in a sealed chamber in the soil under a fist-sized rock. She's laid a second clutch of eggs now. They seem uninterested in animal/insect protein and starchy seeds...