My queen ant journal

[Antloverhuman]

I am going to start posting updates on my camponotus queen ant
21 may, 2021
I caught my first ever queen ant. She had her nuptial flight in my bathroom. I managed to keep her in a container setup because she was too big for the test tube. After a while i checked on her, she had broken her wings off yay:D I gave her a small drop of honey but she didn't eat it

[Antloverhuman]

22 may, 2021
She had still not eaten the honey, intead she put one of her sheded wing on it lol. I removed the honey and the wing. From now on I will only check on her every Saturday. Everytime AntsCanada uploads

[Antloverhuman]

23 may, 2021
Spent an hour trying to figure out what species she is. It might be c. compressus, c. Dolendus or c. Socrates. But I can't make any further assumption as I have not seen her workers

[Antloverhuman]

29 may, 2021
I checked on her as I do every Saturday anddd .........................
SHE LAID EGGS YOOOOOIUUUUOOJSJENVDJDNDBD
IM SO HAPP Y AAA THERE WERE LIKE 7-8 ESS
SO HAPPPY YAY

[Antloverhuman]

June 1, 2021
Found a same looking ant queen maybe the same species. Well...she was a dead one. My guess is that one died cause of other ants or dehydration

[Antloverhuman]

4 June, 2021

I had kept her sheded wings in a matchbox just for memory in case if she dies I will have a memory of her. The matchbox broke and the wings ' flew away ' luckily the matchbox was in another box and I was able to collect almost all the wings but for one (-_-) she had 4 wings. Two small and two big. I couldn't find the big one. Now I only have three wings that I have kept in a test tube for now.

[Antloverhuman]

5 June, 2021
I checked on her and she is alive yay and she also have what seems to be larvae she seems fine but I feel like she isn't actually camponotus cause the larvae are so small and also I read that most carpenter ants take around two months to go from egg to adult but the larvae came in the next week of laying eggs. It's not that I don't want any other ants species but if they are small and fast growing it may become a problem.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/DVTHHYzbkRw1iBEs6

[Antloverhuman]

10 June, 2021
I decided to name my colony " the shadow warriors" and even made a little flag that I will put in their outworld!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZnX7wzCjUpoC3mg38

[Antloverhuman]

12 June, 2021
she's definitely not camponotus. she can't be.there is no way
https://photos.app.goo.gl/5mFVbvYQF5N71ZJW8
look at the cocoons they are only five mm long huh?¿

[AM1C39]

That is definitely camponotus.