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[DDD101DDD]

A camponoutus queen I've had for a month and a half now has just laid eggs, should I give it some food?

[Acutus]

I have C. castaneus and C. Pennsylvanicus. The Castaneus queen has bee struggling and is on her second batch of eggs so I started feeding her fruit flies which she is eating. (I also completely changed her setup) My Pennsylvanicus Queen I've had for awhile and she took a long time to lay eggs, similar to yours sounds like. I just put a couple Fruit Flies in with her I'll let you know how it goes.

 

Technically they shouldn't need it but I think it can only help.

[Mercutia]

The best thing to do is leave her alone. Trying to feed her might stress her out and cause her to eat her eggs.

[Canadian anter]

A camponoutus queen I've had for a month and a half now has just laid eggs, should I give it some food?

From my experience feeding queens tends to yield higher success rates and higher worker counts(except for Formica lol) As long as the food has more benefits than the stress has harms, I say do it. Might want to individualize it based on your queen's personality tho

[DDD101DDD]

Also on a side note, my queen still has her wings

[AntsDakota]

If you were to give her food, it should have been before she laid eggs. Then she had no eggs that she could eat.

[disasterants]

with big camponotus queens, i always give them a little drop of honey right after capture and they seem to lay eggs much faster but its a bit late for that...