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AntnoobSG
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Camponotus colony

Post: # 47320Post AntnoobSG
Mon Aug 13, 2018 9:55 am

my camponotus albosparsus colony have been weird for some reason. I do not see them foraging.Why is that so? (BTW my colony have around 70-80 workers)
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Re: Camponotus colony

Post: # 47340Post AntsDakota
Mon Aug 13, 2018 1:20 pm

AntnoobSG wrote:
Mon Aug 13, 2018 9:55 am
my camponotus albosparsus colony have been weird for some reason. I do not see them foraging.Why is that so? (BTW my colony have around 70-80 workers)
Sometimes small colonies go through periods of not needing much.
"God made every kind of wild beasts and every kind of livestock and every kind of creeping things;" (including ants) "and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:25

AntnoobSG
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Re: Camponotus colony

Post: # 47379Post AntnoobSG
Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:19 pm

But every time I place food it gets eaten the next day :?:
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Camponotus albosparsus x2 :o
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Hoping for pheidole colony :D

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idahoantgirl
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Re: Camponotus colony

Post: # 47387Post idahoantgirl
Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:47 pm

Then they are foraging when you aren't watching 🙂
Proverbs 6:6-8

Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.

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TheRealAntMan
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Re: Camponotus colony

Post: # 47392Post TheRealAntMan
Mon Aug 13, 2018 7:45 pm

This species is known to forage at night, so that's probably when they are foraging.
An ants' strength can be rivaled by few animals compared to relative body size.

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Re: Camponotus colony

Post: # 47436Post AntnoobSG
Tue Aug 14, 2018 2:46 am

Thanks
Keeper of :
Camponotus albosparsus x2 :o
Camponotus Irritans ;)
Hoping for pheidole colony :D

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