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NolanGiesbrecht wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 05, 2023 1:07 am

I found a new Camponotus queen. She's black with red legs. I put her in a test tube set up but she keeps tearing at the cotton is this normal for a newly caught queen?

Yeah, this is usually an indicator she's stressed or infertile.

She could be Pheidole nodus , Tetramorium of the tropics are semi-claustral and are often quite small. Here's some pictures of my late Tetramorium colony and a T. bicarinatum queen for comparison. The test tubes are 1.5 cm wide. https://www.formiculture.com/uploads/gallery/album_2070/gallery_6038_20...

20 June 2023 I've been feeding them all sorts of things. Gave them boiled eggs which they ate super fast. Today i have them a piece of sliced cheese which they also ate. I have them some ice cream too but they didn't care about that Also 500 posts :D Well, ice cream is cold, and tropical ants don't...

Are they all the same ant? If they are, they're probably Camponotus albosparsus , this may change when your queen gets workers because the queens of C. albosparsus and C. irritans are quite similar while the workers differ a lot, the only difference between the queens that I know is C. irritans que...

Are they all the same ant? If they are, they're probably Camponotus albosparsus , this may change when your queen gets workers because the queens of C. albosparsus and C. irritans are quite similar while the workers differ a lot, the only difference between the queens that I know is C. irritans quee...

They are black crazy ants (Paratrechina longicornis), they have those white stripes because their gasters are full of food.

My campo nicobarensis also went from 15W to 4W, they have 2 larvae now and 1 egg. I gave them honey recently. Should i feed them a cricket? What is best to recover a colony? Also, it has been like this for a few months now i am worried the workers might die. What did you feed them besides honey? Ho...

Antloverhuman wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 12, 2023 11:26 am

12 June 2023
Fed them chicken and look what i saw!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/2XWb1LHQXsJB4WBr8
Jeff's actually doing some work now! If that's not character development, i don't know what is

Jeff is looking good!

My campo nicobarensis also went from 15W to 4W, they have 2 larvae now and 1 egg. I gave them honey recently. Should i feed them a cricket? What is best to recover a colony? Also, it has been like this for a few months now i am worried the workers might die. What did you feed them besides honey? Ho...

First one is Odoontomachus simillimus, second is Pheidole parva.