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[Manitobant]

If anyone here lives in canada, you would know that the massive camponotus nuptial flights are a special part of the springtime experience. When they come it signifies that a new season of anting has officially begun. While I have caught lots of camponotus queens so far, there is simply too many to make a journal on and it would take way too long. Instead I would like to make a journal on a colony I recently caught under a log with about 200 workers, lots of brood and a single queen. I currently have them housed in an extra large critter keeper which I originally used for wasp queens filled with rotten wood for them to dig through. They are doing really well so far and I have high Hopes for this colony.

Edited by Manitobant, May 30 2019 - 12:22 PM.

[Acutus]

Sounds great! Please post some pics when you get a chance. Setup and all. This is a species I would love to get. Apparently they are native here but not very common.

[Manitobant]

I know this is a very late update, but it turns out that the queen was actually an infertile alate that shed her wings and acted like a worker. she never laid any eggs, was caught foraging in the outworld and I actually found two more wingless queens under the exact same log and novaeboracensis is a strictly monogynous species. The colony slowly died out.

Edited by Manitobant, December 31 2019 - 6:44 PM.

[AntsDakota]

Must have been a satellite nest, then.