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[Canadian anter]

How about crematogastor food?
Mine don't like honey. Odd. They are frantic for sugar water though. If I put a drop on a fork tip or chopstick, they'll be chasing and drinking from it before I can drop it in their dish.
They don't love the crickets but will tolerate them. They didn't like ape and had some of cooked chicken.
Catching more here and there around my home.

Mine love flightless fruit flies, hunting them down or scavenging dead. You would think they are hard to contain but its pretty easy

Hmmm.... i wonder where can I get flightless fruit flies in cannabis Canada?
I gave them some cooked hamburger tonight and they like that.

lol I sell them

[Da_NewAntOnTheBlock]

Where do these guys nest? under wood, in cracks in concrete, under the toilet seat?

[ANTdrew]

One colony in my yard nests in a dead maple snag, and the other is nesting between wood posts in my retaining wall.

[Da_NewAntOnTheBlock]

One colony in my yard nests in a dead maple snag, and the other is nesting between wood posts in my retaining wall.

So they are pretty much a wood dwelling species?

[ANTdrew]

Correct

[Da_NewAntOnTheBlock]

Good thing Camponotous are big gals, otherwise Camponotous may not be as global as it it

[Canadant]

Wow this thread took off.

Update: since the mass exodus my queen has resumed laying brood. Yaaaay!

Side note, these ants seem so much stickier built than other ants. If I pick up a lasius and I need to be gentle they squish. These guys just feel so much tougher. Like a small pebble.

[Da_NewAntOnTheBlock]

Or a mini-Camponotous?

[ANTdrew]

Wow this thread took off.

Update: since the mass exodus my queen has resumed laying brood. Yaaaay!

Side note, these ants seem so much stickier built than other ants. If I pick up a lasius and I need to be gentle they squish. These guys just feel so much tougher. Like a small pebble.

They’re tough as heck and have the reputation of being unsquishable. It’s also hard as anything to brush them off of stuff.

[TennesseeAnts]

Andrew speaks the truth.....

[Da_NewAntOnTheBlock]

 

Wow this thread took off.

Update: since the mass exodus my queen has resumed laying brood. Yaaaay!

Side note, these ants seem so much stickier built than other ants. If I pick up a lasius and I need to be gentle they squish. These guys just feel so much tougher. Like a small pebble.

They’re tough as heck and have the reputation of being unsquishable. It’s also hard as anything to brush them off of stuff.

 

One time I stepped on a C. Pennsylvanicus major, and it just got itself off the ridge of my shoe and continued its day lol

[Wa.Va]

Does someone understand this behavior?

They have a wooden nest where they store most of the brood. Yet they always gather around this little twig like i mentioned before.

http://imgur.com/gallery/8zzPfGP

Edited by Wa.Va, October 7 2019 - 5:56 AM.

[Kaelwizard]

If you gave them a nice natural set up would they still try to escape?

[Kaelwizard]

I think I have cerasi around me. I found some living in a tombstone at a cemetery by me. (Literally inside the tombstone itself)

[ANTdrew]

If you gave them a nice natural set up would they still try to escape?

Yes, definitely. It’s part of their very nature.

[Da_NewAntOnTheBlock]

Does someone understand this behavior?
They have a wooden nest where they store most of the brood. Yet they always gather around this little twig like i mentioned before. http://imgur.com/gallery/8zzPfGP

Those ants look beautiful with the red on them

[Wa.Va]

Does someone understand this behavior?
They have a wooden nest where they store most of the brood. Yet they always gather around this little twig like i mentioned before. http://imgur.com/gallery/8zzPfGP

Those ants look beautiful with the red on them

For me, Crematogaster scutellaris is the most beautiful species of Crematogaster. Cute tiny redhead acrobats

[ANTdrew]

So jealous! Mine are pure black.

[Canadant]

Ugh... these little buggers! I can't keep them in. Any tips on ptfe application? I use a qtip. I don't shake the bottle but turn it upside down once or twice. They just get over it. I had another escape.

They just seem to hate captivity. My camponotus couldn't care less. 90% off my crematogastor s time ISS spent trying to escape.

[Kaelwizard]

The cerasi I have seen have black queens but the workers have a reddish brown thorax and head (black abdomen like most species). I missed flights this year but I found a couple queens last year so I know what the ones in my area look like.

Edited by Kaelwizard, October 8 2019 - 11:41 AM.