Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
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- Polyrhachiskeeper
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Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
Also, can someone please tell me what colony budding actually is, is it that the queens make males that are not their ofspring... blabla, like black crazy ants? or is it something else? I hope is first option as i will have a big tapinoma colony!
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Founding:
-Dark Camponotus nicobarensis
-Polyrhachis illaudata
-Polyrhachis beccarii
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Founding:
-Dark Camponotus nicobarensis
-Polyrhachis illaudata
-Polyrhachis beccarii
-Polyrhachis rastellata 2x
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Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
Also just found out brood does not hibernate, I found it all dead. Just one month and my Camponotus novaeboracensis colony is out of the fridge!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
Colony budding is when some workers and a virgin queen or gamergate breaks off from it's mother colony to form a new one. This is how army ants and queenless ants create new colonies.Polyrhachiskeeper wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 3:51 amAlso, can someone please tell me what colony budding actually is, is it that the queens make males that are not their ofspring... blabla, like black crazy ants? or is it something else? I hope is first option as i will have a big tapinoma colony!
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Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
yes but how does the virgin queen come to be? does she mate with a male from outside and then buds?SYUTEO wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 9:07 amColony budding is when some workers and a virgin queen or gamergate breaks off from it's mother colony to form a new one. This is how army ants and queenless ants create new colonies.Polyrhachiskeeper wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 3:51 amAlso, can someone please tell me what colony budding actually is, is it that the queens make males that are not their ofspring... blabla, like black crazy ants? or is it something else? I hope is first option as i will have a big tapinoma colony!
Favorite ant:
Polyrhachis/Echinopla
Founding:
-Dark Camponotus nicobarensis
-Polyrhachis illaudata
-Polyrhachis beccarii
-Polyrhachis rastellata 2x
Beginners must not keep Polyrhachis!
Polyrhachis/Echinopla
Founding:
-Dark Camponotus nicobarensis
-Polyrhachis illaudata
-Polyrhachis beccarii
-Polyrhachis rastellata 2x
Beginners must not keep Polyrhachis!
Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
Yes, although this may be different depending on species.Polyrhachiskeeper wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 9:14 pmyes but how does the virgin queen come to be? does she mate with a male from outside and then buds?SYUTEO wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 9:07 amColony budding is when some workers and a virgin queen or gamergate breaks off from it's mother colony to form a new one. This is how army ants and queenless ants create new colonies.Polyrhachiskeeper wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 3:51 amAlso, can someone please tell me what colony budding actually is, is it that the queens make males that are not their ofspring... blabla, like black crazy ants? or is it something else? I hope is first option as i will have a big tapinoma colony!
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Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
Black Crazy Ants also bud to reproduce right? but in their nest alates mate with drones in the colony because the males are not genetically connected with the alatesSYUTEO wrote: ↑Thu Jan 05, 2023 5:24 amYes, although this may be different depending on species.Polyrhachiskeeper wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 9:14 pmyes but how does the virgin queen come to be? does she mate with a male from outside and then buds?
Favorite ant:
Polyrhachis/Echinopla
Founding:
-Dark Camponotus nicobarensis
-Polyrhachis illaudata
-Polyrhachis beccarii
-Polyrhachis rastellata 2x
Beginners must not keep Polyrhachis!
Polyrhachis/Echinopla
Founding:
-Dark Camponotus nicobarensis
-Polyrhachis illaudata
-Polyrhachis beccarii
-Polyrhachis rastellata 2x
Beginners must not keep Polyrhachis!
Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
Maybe, but they do sometimes have nuptial flights, it's quite rare to see a P. longicornis queen on her own but it does happen, I personally found one before.Polyrhachiskeeper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 05, 2023 9:26 pmBlack Crazy Ants also bud to reproduce right? but in their nest alates mate with drones in the colony because the males are not genetically connected with the alatesSYUTEO wrote: ↑Thu Jan 05, 2023 5:24 amYes, although this may be different depending on species.Polyrhachiskeeper wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 9:14 pm
yes but how does the virgin queen come to be? does she mate with a male from outside and then buds?
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Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
once found a small queen which looked like P. longicornis but she died.SYUTEO wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 4:28 amMaybe, but they do sometimes have nuptial flights, it's quite rare to see a P. longicornis queen on her own but it does happen, I personally found one before.Polyrhachiskeeper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 05, 2023 9:26 pmBlack Crazy Ants also bud to reproduce right? but in their nest alates mate with drones in the colony because the males are not genetically connected with the alates
Favorite ant:
Polyrhachis/Echinopla
Founding:
-Dark Camponotus nicobarensis
-Polyrhachis illaudata
-Polyrhachis beccarii
-Polyrhachis rastellata 2x
Beginners must not keep Polyrhachis!
Polyrhachis/Echinopla
Founding:
-Dark Camponotus nicobarensis
-Polyrhachis illaudata
-Polyrhachis beccarii
-Polyrhachis rastellata 2x
Beginners must not keep Polyrhachis!
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Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
I have a colony of camponotus ants. They have gold tails and I have no idea what the species is.
keeping:
all my queens died
got a sugar ant colony started
all my queens died
got a sugar ant colony started
Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
Maybe Camponotus aeneopilosus. They are literally called golden tail sugar ants.AntsAntsAnts wrote: ↑Fri Jan 13, 2023 7:33 pmI have a colony of camponotus ants. They have gold tails and I have no idea what the species is.
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