Came out of a rotting log, queen is about 10mm and workers about 5mm they also sting I think or their bite was just really painful.
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Best Answer ANTdrew , May 21 2024 - 7:16 AM
Camponotus chromaiodes.
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Camponotus chromaiodes.
Hit post once and wait.
Hit post once and wait.
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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One of my favorite species. These guys are real fun to keep. Boring in the start though unless you feed them enough good amounts of protein (which I didn’t do back then but do now). Good luck!
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Thanks. I swear they were stinging me though. Also the workers don't look like Camponotus to me, unless its just a weird color form
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Camponontus don't sting the majors just have a little bit of a nip
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Do not collect wild colonies in this way. It is unnecessary and harmful to the ecosystem.
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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ANTdrew, I did not collect from this colony but from another colony I found with 2 queens even though they aren't polygynous which makes no sense haha. I put the queen pictured back in her log.
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You are right that the worker ant in the second picture is not Camponotus. It’s a blurry shot but the worker is Aphaenogaster. It’s from another colony so you probably just happened to find them next to each other.
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Posted May 21 2024 - 1:50 PM
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Oh shoot ok, I just put her in a separate test tube from the workers I had collected I wondered why she was just sitting in the test tube portal instead of in the tube but I guess its bc those weren't her workers. Whoops.
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The worker is Aphaenogaster lamellidens.
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