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WOW....got home from a friends house at around 11p.m. My driveway has a motion light, it comes on, I look down as I enter the door, and what do you know!? A Camponotus pennsylvanicus queen!! Well...I'm no pro but I'm 95% sure that's what it is. I guess she was about to make a home in one of the hole...

Really hoping to catch a fertile queen this year in Western Ky. Caught a queen carpenter last year but she wasn't fertile. I play tennis so if I play at night and turn on the court lights hopefully I'll see some there but if anyone else is around this area and notices activity let me know. Seems lik...

Ok, so im pretty sure Camponotus nearcticus had a flight yesterday/last night. I found 2 yesterday and 6 more last night. The only thing is I'm scared some may have not been mated yet as there were all within a 2 foot area next to a pine tree. Scattered but close. That was last night anyway. Also, ...

Martialis wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 24, 2017 5:00 pm

Leave her alone. Did she have nanitics?

No, she was just wandering across the sidewalk when I found her and she still has wings

Martialis wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 24, 2017 3:54 pm

Species?

Oh woops. It is a Camponotus castaneus

And The temperature was a bit off, I think it is more 75-80 F

This is preferably for Batspiderfish or Martialis.... or anyone else that would know :-) The last 2 days here in West Tennessee we had a strong cold front. Highs were only in the low 60s high 50s with some rain and lows at night dipping down into the low 40s. Now that its warming back up how long d...

I caught one camponotus in the morning last week but she was by herself, no big flight or anything. Haven't seen anything since then. Just had a large rain and now its in the high 70's and all I could find were workers today and I think one male but it kept flying away so I wasn't certain. I was tur...

I caught her a week ago and she hasn't gotten rid of her wings and every time I've checked her she's just sitting in the same spot moving her antennas. She did drink some honey when I first got her though but that's all. Is 73-75 F an ok temperature to keep her at?

We know of no way to tell except after it is too late, when her brood develop into layabout males. Oh so they lay eggs even if they are infertile, they are just only males? If I get a male from the same species and put him in the test tube will it force them to mate? (haha I know that sounds weird ...

Is there a way to tell if the queen I caught is fertile? Like will she get rid of her wings soon or something if she is? Should I just keep looking for queens in-case she isn't? I found her wandering on a sidewalk by herself in the morning. She didn't try to fly away or anything so I assumed she was...