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Great! I'm happy you could help me I have just a couple more questions and they are if you recommend them for beginners and which of the two is better for beginners thank you!

In my opinion any camponotus sp. would work. They are not escape artist, there slow growing and are very big so it’s easy to get a good look at them! I have been any keeping for one year now and my first ant colony was camponotus, I still have them all of course and they are found very well. Great!...

In my opinion any camponotus sp. would work. They are not escape artist, there slow growing and are very big so it’s easy to get a good look at them! I have been any keeping for one year now and my first ant colony was camponotus, I still have them all of course and they are found very well. I have...

I have found these two carpenter ant species that are local to Florida Camponotus floridanus aswell as Camponotus tortuganus do you recommend any of these two?

I live in Lakeland Florida and I want to start keeping ants but I want to know what's a good ant species I can find in Florida that's good for a beginner ant keeper and when the nuptial flight schedule is for that ant in particular and I will do my own research about it later on Thank you!!!