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Looking for Camponotus species in the bay area, California

Started By tdoukas , Dec 11 2020 12:25 PM

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#1 Offline tdoukas - Posted December 11 2020 - 12:25 PM

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Hi!  I'm looking for a Camponotus queen, ideally with at least a couple workers or more, so I know she's fertile.  I don't know the name of the species I prefer, but can describe it.....

Once I found and housed a Camponotus that produced about 15 workers, and I loved that type because the progeny were made up of 2 different sizes and colors (dark ants and golden ants).  The queen had bold stripes on her abdomen.  I'd love to find that one again.  I'm located in Redwood City, California (between San Francisco and San Jose).

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#2 Offline Swirlysnowflake - Posted December 11 2020 - 1:16 PM

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Hi!  I'm looking for a Camponotus queen, ideally with at least a couple workers or more, so I know she's fertile.  I don't know the name of the species I prefer, but can describe it.....

Once I found and housed a Camponotus that produced about 15 workers, and I loved that type because the progeny were made up of 2 different sizes and colors (dark ants and golden ants).  The queen had bold stripes on her abdomen.  I'd love to find that one again.  I'm located in Redwood City, California (between San Francisco and San Jose).

Thank you!

Not sure which species you are describing, as I am not good on ant IDs, but you may want to look at Jordan's EnchANTery. Selling some Camponotus with workers for a really good price.


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#3 Offline Guest_StrickyAnts_* - Posted December 11 2020 - 4:58 PM

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wait hold up, it produced black and golden workers? did they ever cull them?


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#4 Offline tdoukas - Posted March 25 2021 - 8:26 AM

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StrickyAnts.....  The black and golden progeny both exist simulaneously.  I don't see any culling.  I'm super curious, why do you ask?


#5 Offline ZTYguy - Posted March 25 2021 - 9:10 AM

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I think stricky is thinking about cross species/genus brood boosting but I'm going to ask did you buy or find this queen. I may be wrong but iv'e never heard of this species in cali.


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#6 Offline JenC - Posted March 25 2021 - 9:25 AM

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If you still want Camponotus dm me
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Current Colonies:
1x Camponotus Vicinus (3 Workers)

Single Queens:
3x Camponotus Clarithorax
4x Camponotus Maritimus
5x Camponotus Ca02
7x Camponotus Sansabeanus
1x Myrmecocustus Testaceus
3x Prenolepis Imparis

#7 Offline That_one_ant_guy - Posted March 25 2021 - 7:15 PM

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This probably isn't right but did the workers look like this?

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#8 Offline tdoukas - Posted March 28 2021 - 7:45 AM

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I caught the queen on my back deck in Redwood City, California on March 18 a few years ago.


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#9 Offline MrPurpleB - Posted March 28 2021 - 11:01 AM

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I'm probably wrong, but different colors remind me of C.Vicinus.

I found an image on Google from Drew's C.vicinus journa (the first image). I'm not sure if it's actually Vicinus, but it matches the Gold/Black colors.

The second image is from iNaturalist, it's not the best, but I had a yellow/gold and black coloring to it.

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