Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)

[SYUTEO]

So today is my late Camponotus parius colony's 3rd birthday.

[JaydenScheepers]

So today is my late Camponotus parius colony's 3rd birthday.

Congrats. You keep C. parius?

[SYUTEO]

So today is my late Camponotus parius colony's 3rd birthday.

Congrats. You keep C. parius?

I used to, but the colony died a few months ago. They were a large colony with about 500-1000 workers and a lot of alates. The queen was caught way back in 2019.

[JaydenScheepers]

So today is my late Camponotus parius colony's 3rd birthday.

Congrats. You keep C. parius?

I used to, but the colony died a few months ago. They were a large colony with about 500-1000 workers and a lot of alates. The queen was caught way back in 2019.

Aw that's sad, do you know why they died? Did they ever fly?

[Polyrhachiskeeper]

i am currently founding camponotus and crematogaster. The crematogaster queen already has pupae after just 3 week after catching her! I bet they'll hatch in just a week. It seems that they develop so fast! Is this normal for crematogaster? She has eggs, larvae and pupae now. My camponotus is also doing quite well, she already has big larvae. The camponotus is my first fully-claustral i ever caught! After 1 year of ant keeping i finally have a 'good' queen. All my other queens are semi-claustral and picky about food (im talking about spiny ants).

[SolenopsisKeeper]

Congrats. You keep C. parius?

I used to, but the colony died a few months ago. They were a large colony with about 500-1000 workers and a lot of alates. The queen was caught way back in 2019.

Aw that's sad, do you know why they died? Did they ever fly?

What food? Apparently Camponotus NEED urea to live 2+ years or something

[SYUTEO]

Congrats. You keep C. parius?

I used to, but the colony died a few months ago. They were a large colony with about 500-1000 workers and a lot of alates. The queen was caught way back in 2019.

Aw that's sad, do you know why they died? Did they ever fly?

Not entirely sure why, either I did something wrong or disease from a previous mite infestation. Getting a nuptial flight started in captivity is actually rather difficult so they never ended up flying. One time they did produce a strange major worker that grew wings.

i am currently founding camponotus and crematogaster. The crematogaster queen already has pupae after just 3 week after catching her! I bet they'll hatch in just a week. It seems that they develop so fast! Is this normal for crematogaster? She has eggs, larvae and pupae now. My camponotus is also doing quite well, she already has big larvae. The camponotus is my first fully-claustral i ever caught! After 1 year of ant keeping i finally have a 'good' queen. All my other queens are semi-claustral and picky about food (im talking about spiny ants).

Crematogaster grow very quickly and do keep an eye on them as they are escape artists, some people keep them in a sealed enclosure and they still escaped. My Gnamptogenys (Stictoponera) queen's eggs only took about a month to turn into pupae but it took another 2 months for the workers to hatch.

[SolenopsisKeeper]

I used to, but the colony died a few months ago. They were a large colony with about 500-1000 workers and a lot of alates. The queen was caught way back in 2019.

Aw that's sad, do you know why they died? Did they ever fly?

Not entirely sure why, either I did something wrong or disease from a previous mite infestation. Getting a nuptial flight started in captivity is actually rather difficult so they never ended up flying. One time they did produce a strange major worker that grew wings.

i am currently founding camponotus and crematogaster. The crematogaster queen already has pupae after just 3 week after catching her! I bet they'll hatch in just a week. It seems that they develop so fast! Is this normal for crematogaster? She has eggs, larvae and pupae now. My camponotus is also doing quite well, she already has big larvae. The camponotus is my first fully-claustral i ever caught! After 1 year of ant keeping i finally have a 'good' queen. All my other queens are semi-claustral and picky about food (im talking about spiny ants).

Crematogaster grow very quickly and do keep an eye on them as they are escape artists, some people keep them in a sealed enclosure and they still escaped. My Gnamptogenys (Stictoponera) queen's eggs only took about a month to turn into pupae but it took another 2 months for the workers to hatch.

Was that major a gyandromorph?

[Polyrhachiskeeper]

I used to, but the colony died a few months ago. They were a large colony with about 500-1000 workers and a lot of alates. The queen was caught way back in 2019.

Aw that's sad, do you know why they died? Did they ever fly?

Not entirely sure why, either I did something wrong or disease from a previous mite infestation. Getting a nuptial flight started in captivity is actually rather difficult so they never ended up flying. One time they did produce a strange major worker that grew wings.

i am currently founding camponotus and crematogaster. The crematogaster queen already has pupae after just 3 week after catching her! I bet they'll hatch in just a week. It seems that they develop so fast! Is this normal for crematogaster? She has eggs, larvae and pupae now. My camponotus is also doing quite well, she already has big larvae. The camponotus is my first fully-claustral i ever caught! After 1 year of ant keeping i finally have a 'good' queen. All my other queens are semi-claustral and picky about food (im talking about spiny ants).

Crematogaster grow very quickly and do keep an eye on them as they are escape artists, some people keep them in a sealed enclosure and they still escaped. My Gnamptogenys (Stictoponera) queen's eggs only took about a month to turn into pupae but it took another 2 months for the workers to hatch.

So sad about your colony, was it a nice colony? My cremato pupae are now yellow, probably hatch in a few days, so it takes over 1 month for this crematogaster species for egg to turn into pupa

[SYUTEO]

Aw that's sad, do you know why they died? Did they ever fly?

Not entirely sure why, either I did something wrong or disease from a previous mite infestation. Getting a nuptial flight started in captivity is actually rather difficult so they never ended up flying. One time they did produce a strange major worker that grew wings.

i am currently founding camponotus and crematogaster. The crematogaster queen already has pupae after just 3 week after catching her! I bet they'll hatch in just a week. It seems that they develop so fast! Is this normal for crematogaster? She has eggs, larvae and pupae now. My camponotus is also doing quite well, she already has big larvae. The camponotus is my first fully-claustral i ever caught! After 1 year of ant keeping i finally have a 'good' queen. All my other queens are semi-claustral and picky about food (im talking about spiny ants).

Crematogaster grow very quickly and do keep an eye on them as they are escape artists, some people keep them in a sealed enclosure and they still escaped. My Gnamptogenys (Stictoponera) queen's eggs only took about a month to turn into pupae but it took another 2 months for the workers to hatch.

Was that major a gyandromorph?

Not sure, I do have apic of her in my journal: https://www.formiculture.com/topic/16558-syuteos-ant-journal/page-12

Aw that's sad, do you know why they died? Did they ever fly?

Not entirely sure why, either I did something wrong or disease from a previous mite infestation. Getting a nuptial flight started in captivity is actually rather difficult so they never ended up flying. One time they did produce a strange major worker that grew wings.

i am currently founding camponotus and crematogaster. The crematogaster queen already has pupae after just 3 week after catching her! I bet they'll hatch in just a week. It seems that they develop so fast! Is this normal for crematogaster? She has eggs, larvae and pupae now. My camponotus is also doing quite well, she already has big larvae. The camponotus is my first fully-claustral i ever caught! After 1 year of ant keeping i finally have a 'good' queen. All my other queens are semi-claustral and picky about food (im talking about spiny ants).

Crematogaster grow very quickly and do keep an eye on them as they are escape artists, some people keep them in a sealed enclosure and they still escaped. My Gnamptogenys (Stictoponera) queen's eggs only took about a month to turn into pupae but it took another 2 months for the workers to hatch.

So sad about your colony, was it a nice colony? My cremato pupae are now yellow, probably hatch in a few days, so it takes over 1 month for this crematogaster species for egg to turn into pupa

My Camponotus parius was a very nice colony but they don't really like moving to new setups. I used to have a Crematogaster rogenhoferi queen which I caught in Genting Highlands, theey look very gorgeous but the queen died mysteriously whilst trying to move them to a new test tube. My Gnamptogenys (Stictoponera) colony sadly died to a ghost ant invasion.