Both the Camponotus colonies only have around 3 or 4 brood left.SolenopsisKeeper wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 12:10 amProbably hibernation time. For both… how much brood for the other colony?
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- Tue Sep 27, 2022 5:37 pm
- Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
- Topic: How to Know When Ants Start to Hibernate?
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Re: How to Know When Ants Start to Hibernate?
- Wed Sep 21, 2022 1:30 pm
- Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
- Topic: How to Know When Ants Start to Hibernate?
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Re: How to Know When Ants Start to Hibernate?
And one more detail I should mention is that the Formica colony only has two workers and no brood. Something happened in her test tube while the eggs were gestating, and some of the water spilled. I thought that the queen ate her eggs in response, but when I went to move her into a new tube, she pic...
- Wed Sep 21, 2022 8:27 am
- Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
- Topic: How to Know When Ants Start to Hibernate?
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Re: How to Know When Ants Start to Hibernate?
Some ants(C. Penn and C. Lingnaperda) only lay so many eggs a year and can hibernate early as July! When your ants have full gasters and little to no brood then you may hibernate them. They've actually stopped eating any roaches or crickets I feed them. Is that a sign they will hibernate soon? Also...
- Wed Sep 14, 2022 10:17 am
- Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
- Topic: How to Know When Ants Start to Hibernate?
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How to Know When Ants Start to Hibernate?
I currently have three colonies. Two are Camponotus Pennsylvanicus colonies, one with five workers and one with three. The other colony is a Formica Subsericea colony with two workers. It's going to start getting cold in Wisconsin, where I live, and I'm wondering what signs I should watch for to kno...
- Thu Aug 18, 2022 1:07 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: Tiny Queen Found in Bathroom
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- Thu Aug 18, 2022 1:33 am
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: Tiny Queen Found in Bathroom
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Re: Tiny Queen Found in Bathroom
Looking at local Myrmica species, my guess is that it's a punctiventris. I'm just going off the color with this. Their nuptial flights aren't supposed to start until August.
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 2:54 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: Tiny Queen Found in Bathroom
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Tiny Queen Found in Bathroom
Size: 7 mm When: August 14th, around 4:00 PM, nuptial flight was likely the night before or the morning of Where: Southern Wisconsin, in a gas station bathroom, small town Appearance: She is small, with a dark orangish-red color to her. She still has her wings, but they are a bit shredded, which mak...
- Fri Jul 29, 2022 4:25 pm
- Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
- Topic: Noticing a Pattern
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Re: Noticing a Pattern
Good news! The formica ant I caught most recently has not died, and has laid eggs! Looks like I will potentially have a non-Camponotus colony.
- Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:33 am
- Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
- Topic: Workers Suddenly Died?
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Re: Workers Suddenly Died?
Not just a queen. One of the colonies still has a worker.SolenopsisKeeper wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:32 amYes. Move them both into a new tube, starting from scratch. It is possible to raise a second gen of brood with just a queen
- Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:33 am
- Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
- Topic: Workers Suddenly Died?
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Re: Workers Suddenly Died?
Try feeding them directly in the tube and removing all trash. Try anything they will eat from sugar water to eggs on a tinfoil dish. A quick update. My other colony of the same species that had one worker is now down to just the queen. She has no brood and is attempting to escape, even after I fed ...