Ant hibernating

[AntsInMB]

Hi, I’m wondering if camponotus novaeboracensis will hibernate at room temperature

[AM1C39]

I have a colony of them and if you just keep them in your room they will slow down a lot, not exactly hibernating but sort of.

[AntsInMB]

So it would work

[antnest8]

Hi, I’m wondering if camponotus novaeboracensis will hibernate at room temperature

You don't "need" to hibernate your queens because their natural clocks will have them do it anyway. There are health effects to not providing proper hibernation for carpenter ant colony's if I remember a scientific paper I read a few years back.
Since those are most likely long term, normal ant-keepers don't have to worry as just getting a colony to survive five years is hard enough.