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Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone might give a recommendation for a new ant formicarium. My camponutus penn. colony is doing well. However, my antworld formicarium is starting to fall apart. The little 3D print watering system broke. The ants have moved out into the test tube drinking area inst...

ridgewalker

Hello Camponotus Crew, it’s been a while. My queens didn’t make it last year. However, today will cleaning out one of my dead honeybee hive boxes. I noticed a colony of black carpenter ants. I collected all that I could. I am hoping I caught the queen. There quite a few super majors. So I don’t real...

ridgewalker

Hi everyone, Over a week ago. I caught 3 queens, I believe they are camponotus. I found them when I was splitting some firewood and they were hiding under the bark. I knew they were queens because they have wings. So I put them each in a test tube setup. I just check up on them. And they still have ...

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So when I woke up this morning, I noticed the camponotus penn. queen and all of her workers moved themselves out of their original test tube and into an empty test tube that was connected to the ac portal. I had just clean the empty test tube. It was their where they placed all their trash, so it wa...

ridgewalker

Hello, I have recently caught a Camponotus pennsylvanicus queen and had some questions on care. I watched the AntsCanada video on how to care for this genius and they said to keep them in tube until they had 20 to 50 workers. My questions are. First, how do you feed them in the tube and remove tras...

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TomvANTol wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 29, 2020 11:28 pm
Thought it was a pennsylvanicus but maybe not? Plz help with ID

Here a picture of my queen. She has a huge pile of egg/larva plus 9 workers. They are hungry little guys. I gave them a grasshopper leg. They need to be fed sometime almost every day

ridgewalker

TomvANTol wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 29, 2020 11:28 pm
Thought it was a pennsylvanicus but maybe not? Plz help with ID

Looks identical to mine

ridgewalker

joquijada wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:16 am

joquijada wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:03 am

Tried to attach pictures but not matter how small I made them it said I had exceeded quota.
You can go to imgur.com to get a free image hosting service, where you can upload your pictures and then generate a forum link that you can post of this forum. That way we can see your pictures

ridgewalker

Hello friends, Just joined this morning. I want to start my own colony of carpenter ants. I live in Pennsylvania too, Northeast - the Pocono's. I'm new to ant keeping and just caught my first ant queen, a Camponotus read/black ant queen! I grabbed her from a colony thriving in my backyard. I put he...

ridgewalker

Thanks Cabbo, I appreciate the heads up about the queen not being able to turn around. I think I have now run out of wax worms though, or rather they all died or turned into moths and then died, -Cabbo Cabbo, I would like you restock your wax worm supply by visiting my 12 honeybee hives, any wax wo...

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