The AntsCanada Ant Forum's

The queens in your driveway's colony are not fertilized. Catching these queens would not accomplish anything. Mated queens never leave the nest unless it is destroyed and it is very necessary for them to move do a different nest. You need to wait for nuptial flights. If you see a queen with or with...

It's been about a week since I discovered my first queen. I added more coco fiber to the mix. I ordered some large test tubes from eBay I also ordered a strange gel ant farm looks cool can't wait till it shows up it appears to be a modular setup so I can attached new worlds to it (I'm super excited...

I have to say that looks very similar to the one I caught...someone identified mine as camponotus modoc...

Mine has a large black body with red legs.

I did a quick Google search but I am not able to find anything...you may be the one to educate the world on this species.

http://s349.photobucket.com/user/RAGEOWL/library/?sort=3&page=1

Almost forgot to post the pics...hopes this helps

Hey guys so I have this very large ant nest up my drive way with queens all over it ready for nuptial flight and I want to grab a few in your opinion how do you think I should do this? Right off the top and get bit a bunch. Put down a glass jar and hope one gets in there ( if I do that is it ok to h...

Batspiderfish wrote: ↑

Sun May 20, 2018 2:57 pm

Camponotus modoc queen

Thank you!!!!

http://s349.photobucket.com/user/RAGEOWL/library/?sort=3&page=1

Hopefully this link works...a few pics of her but now I'm not sure if it's actually a queen what if it is a large major....she didn't have wings when I found her

I can't seem to post pictures of my girl

It's been about a week since I discovered my first queen. I added more coco fiber to the mix. I ordered some large test tubes from eBay I also ordered a strange gel ant farm looks cool can't wait till it shows up it appears to be a modular setup so I can attached new worlds to it (I'm super excited)...