Welcome to the Camponotus Crew!

[Nate440]

Came across this helpful list “barriers for what species”
Does anyone have any personal experience and application methods?
One thing I’ve noticed: people always say “baby powder” but be careful purchasing some baby powder is cornstarch based and not pure talcum powder that we want.

http://www.formiculture.com/topic/646-list-of-species-that-can-cross-a-specified-barrier-contributed-to-by-members/

I use extra virgin olive oil that a bought for a dollar and I works great, they hate having the oil on their feet and they just avoid it all together, at first they tried to cross it a few times and then they’d clean them self’s for like 5 minutes,( don’t worry it doesn’t hurt them), just imagine the annoyance of having oil on your bare feet! now they don’t even bother trying to cross. I re apply once or twice a week depending on how humid it is, I found when there’s more moisture it breaks up the oil after a while if you don’t re-apply. Hope that helps

I use this method with my carpenter ants and newly indentified Formica ants! To be honest I have fluon but I don’t even use it!

[Hawkeye]

Hey fellow ant keepers! I’m new to ant keeping and was wondering if you could help me identify this species of ant, it looks very much like a camponotus pennsyvanicus but they are much smaller, I know this because I have two Pennsylvanicus colonies already.

Does anyone know if this is a type of camponotus species? Or maybe something else, I don’t know very much when is comes to identifying specific species

Hawkeye has been very helpful to me but I think we’re both getting frustrated trying to figure out what this is, unfortunately my camera isn’t great

They actually look quite similar to this one too:
https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Taxonomic-List-of-Ant-Genera/Camponotus/i-NCx9Q9H/A apparently the smallest carpenter ants

[CabboAntsGuy]

Man, It's getting hard to keep up with this page. Welcome Nate440! So happy to hear about everyone's colonies. Can't wait for more updates!

-StirTheFire

[Nate440]

Hey fellow ant keepers! I’m new to ant keeping and was wondering if you could help me identify this species of ant, it looks very much like a camponotus pennsyvanicus but they are much smaller, I know this because I have two Pennsylvanicus colonies already.

Does anyone know if this is a type of camponotus species? Or maybe something else, I don’t know very much when is comes to identifying specific species

Hawkeye has been very helpful to me but I think we’re both getting frustrated trying to figure out what this is, unfortunately my camera isn’t great

They actually look quite similar to this one too:
https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Taxonomic-List-of-Ant-Genera/Camponotus/i-NCx9Q9H/A apparently the smallest carpenter ants

Oh boy I just don’t know anymore xD they really do look just like it





http://www.myrmecos.net/2011/07/26/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-formica-and-camponotus/





They’re so little though... thanks for the help guys and for being so welcoming despite me with the shot gun posting lol

[LasiusSapien]

shout out to www.britishants.com ordered Friday morning received Saturday afternoon

https://www.dropbox.com/s/guskkxosp4jh5nz/IMG_20190824_172615.jpg?dl=0

[Tzakeran]

Welcome to Nate440 and Shinde! Glad to meet you! I'm also leaning towards a Formica species for you Nate440. That back-shape trick is pretty darn clever!

[CANant]

shout out to www.britishants.com ordered Friday morning received Saturday afternoon

https://www.dropbox.com/s/guskkxosp4jh5nz/IMG_20190824_172615.jpg?dl=0

Awesome! Congratulations! She’s beautiful!

[CANant]

Came across this helpful list “barriers for what species”
Does anyone have any personal experience and application methods?
One thing I’ve noticed: people always say “baby powder” but be careful purchasing some baby powder is cornstarch based and not pure talcum powder that we want.

http://www.formiculture.com/topic/646-list-of-species-that-can-cross-a-specified-barrier-contributed-to-by-members/

I use extra virgin olive oil that a bought for a dollar and I works great, they hate having the oil on their feet and they just avoid it all together, at first they tried to cross it a few times and then they’d clean them self’s for like 5 minutes,( don’t worry it doesn’t hurt them), just imagine the annoyance of having oil on your bare feet! now they don’t even bother trying to cross. I re apply once or twice a week depending on how humid it is, I found when there’s more moisture it breaks up the oil after a while if you don’t re-apply. Hope that helps

I use this method with my carpenter ants and newly indentified Formica ants! To be honest I have fluon but I don’t even use it!

This is very good to know: Carpenter ants and olive oil. Mikey said that too I think. I have birds so working with fluon scares me. I think I will try the olive oil first. Thanks Nate440!

[LasiusSapien]

shout out to www.britishants.com ordered Friday morning received Saturday afternoon

https://www.dropbox.com/s/guskkxosp4jh5nz/IMG_20190824_172615.jpg?dl=0

Awesome! Congratulations! She’s beautiful!

cheers mate i agree she's defo a looker had a bouns to few eggs on the cotton 1 larva 2 pupa and a nanitic

[CANant]

Hey fellow ant keepers! I’m new to ant keeping and was wondering if you could help me identify this species of ant, it looks very much like a camponotus pennsyvanicus but they are much smaller, I know this because I have two Pennsylvanicus colonies already.

Does anyone know if this is a type of camponotus species? Or maybe something else, I don’t know very much when is comes to identifying specific species

Hawkeye has been very helpful to me but I think we’re both getting frustrated trying to figure out what this is, unfortunately my camera isn’t great

They actually look quite similar to this one too:
https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Taxonomic-List-of-Ant-Genera/Camponotus/i-NCx9Q9H/A apparently the smallest carpenter ants

Oh boy I just don’t know anymore xD they really do look just like it





http://www.myrmecos.net/2011/07/26/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-formica-and-camponotus/





They’re so little though... thanks for the help guys and for being so welcoming despite me with the shot gun posting lol

That’s a great identification trick! Definitely think Formica still. Check this out. Tarheelants posted this. https://youtu.be/kHVpxARVMzw