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by Firespitter
Mon Aug 17, 2020 10:39 am
Forum: Ant Diet & Nutrition
Topic: Camponotus Pennsylvanicus - Seasonal Diet? Growth Patterns?
Replies: 5
Views: 9026

Re: Camponotus Pennsylvanicus - Seasonal Diet? Growth Patterns?

So I also caught a wild colony and so far they haven’t accepted anything I’ve attempted to feed them, what have you been using?
by Firespitter
Fri Feb 23, 2018 9:20 am
Forum: Ant Care and Ant Keeping
Topic: Humidity problem.
Replies: 4
Views: 3714

Humidity problem.

I have a camponotus pennsylvanicus queen in a test tube and she and the brood were doing fine until winter came and the heat had to be turned on making it quite dry. Now the brood is starting to dry up and I have been trying to find ways to increase the humidity as the water in the test tube isn't e...
by Firespitter
Sun Jul 30, 2017 12:23 am
Forum: Ant Keeping for Beginners
Topic: Black crazy ants
Replies: 1
Views: 1472

Re: Black crazy ants

Now i'm not entirely sure and I could be absolutely wrong however from what I've seen I believe black crazy ants do live in Pennsylvania as well as surrounding states such as mine New York.
by Firespitter
Sat Jun 10, 2017 6:41 pm
Forum: Ant Keeping for Beginners
Topic: First attempt at ant keeping
Replies: 2
Views: 2210

First attempt at ant keeping

Hello this is my very first time attempting to keep ants as I found AntsCanada just a few months ago and happened to stumble on a camponotus pennsylvanicus queen in my hallway (i'm worried that they are in my walls now) but I have the queen in an old clear cigar tube which is about the same length a...