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Welcome to Lazy Tube - Serafine's Camponotus barbaricus

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#361 Offline Ernteameise - Posted May 26 2023 - 11:30 AM

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Wonderful colony. They have striking colours!



#362 Offline ANTdrew - Posted May 26 2023 - 12:01 PM

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The forum’s longest running continuous journal.
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#363 Offline Serafine - Posted May 30 2023 - 7:59 AM

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Look at all those freeloaders!

 

 

 

 

 

 

No winged queens in sight yet.


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#364 Offline Hiromilovesmealworms - Posted October 24 2023 - 6:49 PM

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Has this journal really been running for 8 years?!!



#365 Offline ANTdrew - Posted October 25 2023 - 2:06 AM

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Yes, it has.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#366 Offline Serafine - Posted October 25 2023 - 2:45 AM

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Just a heads up, i've been doing photos and all, just didn't have the time to do an update yet. It's probably coming at some point within the next 2 weeks.


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#367 Offline Virginian_ants - Posted October 25 2023 - 3:32 AM

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Wow this journal is old. I hope these girls live for decades more.
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#368 Offline Ernteameise - Posted October 25 2023 - 3:39 AM

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Wow this journal is old. I hope these girls live for decades more.

Does anyone know how long this species can live?

This will be a real cool document on life history traits.



#369 Offline Virginian_ants - Posted October 25 2023 - 4:54 AM

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Camponotus can live for well over 10 years maybe 20 but it could be dependent on the queen.
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#370 Offline Serafine - Posted October 25 2023 - 6:39 AM

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Around 15-20 years. Some individuals may deviate from the norm of course.


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#371 Offline mistrzou - Posted October 29 2023 - 4:51 AM

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I have those. My colony have 1 year and they are kept in very big selfmade acryl formicarium with heating lamp inside set to 28-32 celcius stable temperature all the time. So I can make experiment how long camponotus barbaricus live in that all year long summer climate. My expectations are 15 years, no incubation period as well and they are doing fine. Eggs, larvae not very much but they are constantly growing in numbers.

#372 Offline Serafine - Posted October 29 2023 - 6:30 AM

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I have those. My colony have 1 year and they are kept in very big selfmade acryl formicarium with heating lamp inside set to 28-32 celcius stable temperature all the time. So I can make experiment how long camponotus barbaricus live in that all year long summer climate. My expectations are 15 years, no incubation period as well and they are doing fine. Eggs, larvae not very much but they are constantly growing in numbers.

 

I can tell you from my own experience that they won't do that great in the long run. You will see less and less growth as the years go by.

The reason is most of the alate larvae will not develop unless the colony experienced a cold season. Your nest will be stuffed full with larvae but most of them will just never pupate.

Last year I gave my colony their first proper hibernation in years and as a result they produced an absolute crapton of male alates, presumably all accumulated over the last years.

 

They also produced some new workers but were so occupied with providing for all the males that they didn't really get to much else.

In fact, i'm pretty sure my colony right now is smaller than it was two years ago. I'm curious where they'll go next year.


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#373 Offline Ernteameise - Posted October 30 2023 - 2:11 AM

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I have those. My colony have 1 year and they are kept in very big selfmade acryl formicarium with heating lamp inside set to 28-32 celcius stable temperature all the time. So I can make experiment how long camponotus barbaricus live in that all year long summer climate. My expectations are 15 years, no incubation period as well and they are doing fine. Eggs, larvae not very much but they are constantly growing in numbers.

 

I can tell you from my own experience that they won't do that great in the long run. You will see less and less growth as the years go by.

The reason is most of the alate larvae will not develop unless the colony experienced a cold season. Your nest will be stuffed full with larvae but most of them will just never pupate.

Last year I gave my colony their first proper hibernation in years and as a result they produced an absolute crapton of male alates, presumably all accumulated over the last years.

 

They also produced some new workers but were so occupied with providing for all the males that they didn't really get to much else.

In fact, i'm pretty sure my colony right now is smaller than it was two years ago. I'm curious where they'll go next year.

 

This is an interesting observation.

I know that someone did an experiment with Lasius niger in one of the German forums, and did not hibernate them.

The colony collapsed after 3 years and never did show any good growth.


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