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Hey, so I had a queen ant that did something similar to this about a year ago. The egg turned out to be a Phorid fly's egg that had parasitically injected here with an egg of its own that she then cared for till she died, about the time that it hatched. Unfortunately there is nothing you can really ...

Hey there, so I recently caught a Tetramorium immigrans queen and she produced quite a large brood of eggs. Unfortunately over the course of 4 days that I was away, she passed and now I have about 13 larvae left unattended and wriggling. I have been trying to keep an eye out over the past few days f...

I also live in BC, currently living in Victoria

Hey, I bought a camponotus hybrid nest kit about a year ago and have a a queen with about 8 workers now and several eggs but where I am from they have a long hibernation period, blah blah, its been about a year so its gonna be quite a while still. I recently caught a Brachymyrmex depilis queen thoug...

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She is about 7mm long, caught here while she was making her cloistral chamber under a rock. Caught her on the 18th near Williams Lake, in the interior of BC Canada.

Thanks for the replies . I knew the eggs and such hibernated from my degree just wanted to check with others to confirm this as normal as I haven't kept Camponotus before and wasn't quite sure of the combined effect of hibernation and their relative slow rate of growth.

Hey there, I caught a Camponotus queen in the end of September and have had her and the initial eggs in a test tube configuration since. I live in British Columbia, Canada and so I know due to the weather and the timing everything may be slowed due to naturally hibernating at this time but I have no...