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I must have the worst.luck ever with camponoutous ants ill tell ya I only found one queen she was doing fine nothing was wrong or so I thought I checked on her this morning and she was DEAD!!??I WAS LIKE WAIT WHAT WHAT HAPPED WHO WHAT WHEN WERE WHAT DID I DO WRONG......then later today I um looked at her majestys corps and noticed the was a pile of a worm looking thing and there butt was like flat it was upsetting we was dead but it was a relief it wasn't my fault I just wish I found more queens bc now I don't have a carpenter ant queen abd it sucks big time bc of how long they take to grow and a freakin parasite killed my camponoutous queen

That is unfortunate. I hope that you can catch more queens later. I did not have a lot of colonies, but I think that this is relatively common. Many queens do not manage to found colonies, and therefore it is recommended to catch several.

Sorry for your loss.

Dude what you found was amazing. If I were you I’d raise the parasites instead of the Camponotus queen. Who knows what you found and what they will grow into.