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Wonderful colony. They have striking colours!
Look at all those freeloaders!
No winged queens in sight yet.
We should respect all forms of consciousness. The body is just a vessel, a mere hull.
Welcome to Lazy Tube - My Camponotus Journal
Has this journal really been running for 8 years?!!
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.
We should respect all forms of consciousness. The body is just a vessel, a mere hull.
Welcome to Lazy Tube - My Camponotus Journal
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.
Around 15-20 years. Some individuals may deviate from the norm of course.
We should respect all forms of consciousness. The body is just a vessel, a mere hull.
Welcome to Lazy Tube - My Camponotus Journal
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.
We should respect all forms of consciousness. The body is just a vessel, a mere hull.
Welcome to Lazy Tube - My Camponotus Journal
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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