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You can buy on Amazon and breed them yourself and I would say she is fully claustral

I looked into her being a black carpenter ant queen and no, it looks like she is not.

Yep, she is a queen and she would be bigger than most of her workers. Also what is your live insect dilemma?

Thank you for sharing this it seems it is a pretty rare ant there are no web documents about it. So maybe it is exotic to the Canadian region.

Also I appreciate that like most people you did not just kill her. Are you an AntsCanada fan.

Looks all good and don't worry you will do fine I can't find her species anywhere and I have look at many sources so I would keep her she must be rare. Do you have any similar ants nearby? If so do not leave anything out.

Thank you! Tell me how your colonies are doing.

What social parasites are there in Texas?

I would say that this point go with your gut and resource areas good for her release and maybe you should keep her for the first year because only a very slim percent of Camponotus survive the first year. Also you might as well take this opportunity to give yourself the great chance of raising your ...

Sorry about that it is cool you live on a island. Any exotic ants there (Like in Australia)?