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Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:20 pm
by JaydenScheepers
SYUTEO wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 7:09 am
SolenopsisKeeper wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 9:35 pm
SYUTEO wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 4:23 am
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.
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
Polyrhachiskeeper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 4:02 am
SYUTEO wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 4:23 am
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.
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.
That's so unfortunate, my house is covered with what I believe to be pharaoh ants, their in my bathroom and outside my room, I am very wary about these girls and may put some homemade fluon on the outside edges if my out worlds, just as a measure to make sure my ants stay safe. My C. parius colony also does like moving much, but they grow fast, did yours grow quickly as well?
Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:45 pm
by SYUTEO
JaydenScheepers wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:20 pm
SYUTEO wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 7:09 am
Not sure, I do have apic of her in my journal:
https://www.formiculture.com/topic/16558-syuteos-ant-journal/page-12
Polyrhachiskeeper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 4:02 am
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.
That's so unfortunate, my house is covered with what I believe to be pharaoh ants, their in my bathroom and outside my room, I am very wary about these girls and may put some homemade fluon on the outside edges if my out worlds, just as a measure to make sure my ants stay safe. My C. parius colony also does like moving much, but they grow fast, did yours grow quickly as well?
Yes, egg to worker in 1 month.
Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:55 pm
by JaydenScheepers
SYUTEO wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:45 pm
JaydenScheepers wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:20 pm
SYUTEO wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 7:09 am
Not sure, I do have apic of her in my journal:
https://www.formiculture.com/topic/16558-syuteos-ant-journal/page-12
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.
That's so unfortunate, my house is covered with what I believe to be pharaoh ants, their in my bathroom and outside my room, I am very wary about these girls and may put some homemade fluon on the outside edges if my out worlds, just as a measure to make sure my ants stay safe. My C. parius colony also does like moving much, but they grow fast, did yours grow quickly as well?
Yes, egg to worker in 1 month.
My C. granulatus goes from egg to worker in one month, however when my C. parius queen was founding she took basically 2 months, I'm not sure how long it takes now, but they have a lot of brood.
Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 4:39 am
by Polyrhachiskeeper
JaydenScheepers wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:20 pm
SYUTEO wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 7:09 am
Not sure, I do have apic of her in my journal:
https://www.formiculture.com/topic/16558-syuteos-ant-journal/page-12
Polyrhachiskeeper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 4:02 am
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.
That's so unfortunate, my house is covered with what I believe to be pharaoh ants, their in my bathroom and outside my room, I am very wary about these girls and may put some homemade fluon on the outside edges if my out worlds, just as a measure to make sure my ants stay safe. My C. parius colony also does like moving much, but they grow fast, did yours grow quickly as well?
Your house too? Got LOTS of pharaoh ants in my house too, i believe they are pharaoh ants, i dont think they sting but they somtimes leave a mosquito-bite-like thing after. No white postule tho.
Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 4:42 am
by Polyrhachiskeeper
SYUTEO wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:45 pm
JaydenScheepers wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:20 pm
SYUTEO wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 7:09 am
Not sure, I do have apic of her in my journal:
https://www.formiculture.com/topic/16558-syuteos-ant-journal/page-12
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.
That's so unfortunate, my house is covered with what I believe to be pharaoh ants, their in my bathroom and outside my room, I am very wary about these girls and may put some homemade fluon on the outside edges if my out worlds, just as a measure to make sure my ants stay safe. My C. parius colony also does like moving much, but they grow fast, did yours grow quickly as well?
Yes, egg to worker in 1 month.
So fast, my campo queen already has cocoons, after 1 month a week i think, my cremato queen already has her first nanitics!!!! So exciting, the nanitics came a few days ago. The cocoons of my camponotus queen seem quite small compared to the ones i found in the wild. This is normal right, because she raises them on her body tisues, so it's smaller than normal.
Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 4:55 am
by JaydenScheepers
Polyrhachiskeeper wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 4:39 am
JaydenScheepers wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:20 pm
SYUTEO wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 7:09 am
Not sure, I do have apic of her in my journal:
https://www.formiculture.com/topic/16558-syuteos-ant-journal/page-12
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.
That's so unfortunate, my house is covered with what I believe to be pharaoh ants, their in my bathroom and outside my room, I am very wary about these girls and may put some homemade fluon on the outside edges if my out worlds, just as a measure to make sure my ants stay safe. My C. parius colony also does like moving much, but they grow fast, did yours grow quickly as well?
Your house too? Got LOTS of pharaoh ants in my house too, i believe they are pharaoh ants, i dont think they sting but they somtimes leave a mosquito-bite-like thing after. No white postule tho.
They only attack them if disturbed, but they often move their queens, and depending on how long the trail, they can move anywhere between 2-12 queens at any one time. I've never seen anything like it, I have caught them moving queens on numerous occasions.
Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 6:39 am
by SYUTEO
Polyrhachiskeeper wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 4:42 am
SYUTEO wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:45 pm
JaydenScheepers wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:20 pm
That's so unfortunate, my house is covered with what I believe to be pharaoh ants, their in my bathroom and outside my room, I am very wary about these girls and may put some homemade fluon on the outside edges if my out worlds, just as a measure to make sure my ants stay safe. My C. parius colony also does like moving much, but they grow fast, did yours grow quickly as well?
Yes, egg to worker in 1 month.
So fast, my campo queen already has cocoons, after 1 month a week i think, my cremato queen already has her first nanitics!!!! So exciting, the nanitics came a few days ago. The cocoons of my camponotus queen seem quite small compared to the ones i found in the wild. This is normal right, because she raises them on her body tisues, so it's smaller than normal.
Yes, it's normal. Nanitics are usually way smaller than mature workers.
Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2022 4:16 am
by Polyrhachiskeeper
JaydenScheepers wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 4:55 am
Polyrhachiskeeper wrote: ↑Thu Sep 29, 2022 4:39 am
JaydenScheepers wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:20 pm
That's so unfortunate, my house is covered with what I believe to be pharaoh ants, their in my bathroom and outside my room, I am very wary about these girls and may put some homemade fluon on the outside edges if my out worlds, just as a measure to make sure my ants stay safe. My C. parius colony also does like moving much, but they grow fast, did yours grow quickly as well?
Your house too? Got LOTS of pharaoh ants in my house too, i believe they are pharaoh ants, i dont think they sting but they somtimes leave a mosquito-bite-like thing after. No white postule tho.
They only attack them if disturbed, but they often move their queens, and depending on how long the trail, they can move anywhere between 2-12 queens at any one time. I've never seen anything like it, I have caught them moving queens on numerous occasions.
hmmm.... i only see queen when they are disturbed,the queen are quite small and the males are about as big as the workers.
Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2022 6:17 am
by SYUTEO
I almost forgot, five days ago this topic hit it first year anniversary.
Re: Welcome back to the Camponotus Crew! (New topic, old one got too long)
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2022 2:45 am
by Polyrhachiskeeper
My Camponotus now has 12 nanitics. My crematogaster has probably 40 workers or so. I now have a small mealworm farm but my spiny ant refuses to eat it.
I also finally found out what sp. of ant are in my house. They are very anoying and they look alot like Trichomyrmex destructor. They burrow in wood, and have a painful bite, and look alot like pharaoh ants.