How to find camponotus queens after nuptial flight!

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How to find camponotus queens after nuptial flight!

Post: # 6868Post AntsRule
Sat Jun 04, 2016 11:08 pm

So I know that Camponotus queens mostly burrow in dead damp wood after nuptial flight, so when I saw this little fresh pile of wood shavings under a little hole in a log. I had to find out what was inside!
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I took a hatchet and very carefully shaved of layer by layer (the wood was very soft) and guess what I found!
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Also if someone could please ID, I believe it is a Camponotus pennsylvanicus, she is about 2 cm, caught 4/31/15 and I believe she flew the night before since the shavings were fresh. Caught in Chester County PA :D
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Pheidole sp.

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Re: How to find camponotus queens after nuptial flight!

Post: # 6901Post Solenopsisace
Sun Jun 05, 2016 1:44 pm

Looks like camponotus penn.

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Re: How to find camponotus queens after nuptial flight!

Post: # 6903Post larynx
Sun Jun 05, 2016 2:02 pm

you should go get that piece of wood back, and make Camponotus Sp. nests out of it. :D
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Re: How to find camponotus queens after nuptial flight!

Post: # 6912Post AntsRule
Sun Jun 05, 2016 3:51 pm

Thanks I am sure now that it is a camponotus penn thanks to everyone! A few days later I was unrolling a tarp that had been sitting out side for a week, and bam! Another camponotus penn. :D That will make 32 queens so far this season! :D
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