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I got a problem.

Started By Jonathan5608 , Aug 25 2022 5:12 PM

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#1 Offline Jonathan5608 - Posted August 25 2022 - 5:12 PM

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So a week ago I did a really idiotic stupid thing at put my camponotus nearcticus queen and three workers in a large formicarium with a piece of cork bark full of numerous cracks and crevices. Now I have absolutely no idea where they are. I think they are alive because they seemed to harvest some dead fruit flies that I put in there. Is there a way I can someway attract them out of there or someway to figure out if they are alive.

Edited by Jonathan5608, August 25 2022 - 5:13 PM.

#2 Offline FinWins - Posted August 25 2022 - 5:26 PM

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You could try breaking the cork open and setting a test tube next to a heat cable in there

I keep: C. modoc, C. sansabeanus , C. maritimus, Formica argentea, M. mexicanus , Odontomachus brunneus , Pogonomyrmex californicus, Pogonomyrmex rugosus,

#3 Online rptraut - Posted August 25 2022 - 6:34 PM

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I'm not familiar with nearcticus, but if it was a pennsylvanicus colony I would wait until it is cold enough for them to go into hibernation. Wait until it is below freezing and take them to an unheated space (like a garage or shed). Then you can open up the cork, find their hibernation huddle, and put them (shake them) into the type of formicarium you have designed that provides the conditions you and the ants want.

They move very slowly, if at all, when hibernating and it's the only time I move Camponotus. They will move enough to reform their huddle and survive the winter.

My father always said I had ants in my pants.