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Camponotus Planatus

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#1 Offline CJsAntStuff - Posted August 12 2024 - 9:51 AM

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Hello,

 

This will be the record of a Camponotus Planatus Queen I found. I saw that they were also called the Compact Carpenter Ant. I'm pretty sure about all that anyways.

I spread out some plastic to do some painting at a customer's house, and there she was. Right in the middle of the plastic. I ran and grabbed a little vial to put her in.

I put her in a test tube and stuck her in a box. Here is were we stand up to date. 

 

6/21/24 = Found her today at work.

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6/29/24 = In her test tube. It looks like there are a couple of little eggs in there.

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7/6/24 = I can count 5 eggs in there.

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7/13/24 = It looks like a couple of larva are developing.

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7/28/24 = A couple of pupae and more eggs have hatched into larva.

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8/3/24 = More pupae and a new little egg at the bottom.

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8/10/24 = So I get out the test tube to take my weekly pictures and (queue the religious music or Ode To Joy)... One worker helping the queen clean off another worker. I have video too.

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I'll make updates as things progress or if something unusual happens.

 


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#2 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted August 12 2024 - 10:12 AM

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Hello,

 

This will be the record of a Camponotus Planatus Queen I found. I saw that they were also called the Compact Carpenter Ant. I'm pretty sure about all that anyways.

I spread out some plastic to do some painting at a customer's house, and there she was. Right in the middle of the plastic. I ran and grabbed a little vial to put her in.

I put her in a test tube and stuck her in a box. Here is were we stand up to date. 

 

6/21/24 = Found her today at work.

attachicon.gif20240621_174054.jpg

 

6/29/24 = In her test tube. It looks like there are a couple of little eggs in there.

attachicon.gif20240629_205509.jpg

 

7/6/24 = I can count 5 eggs in there.

attachicon.gif20240706_210844.jpg

 

7/13/24 = It looks like a couple of larva are developing.

attachicon.gif20240713_172208.jpg

 

7/28/24 = A couple of pupae and more eggs have hatched into larva.

attachicon.gif20240728_081003.jpg

 

8/3/24 = More pupae and a new little egg at the bottom.

attachicon.gif20240803_182431.jpg

 

8/10/24 = So I get out the test tube to take my weekly pictures and (queue the religious music or Ode To Joy)... One worker helping the queen clean off another worker. I have video too.

attachicon.gif20240810_202217.jpg

 

I'll make updates as things progress or if something unusual happens.

What a cool species! The color and expecially the thorax pattern reminds me of parasitic formica, which is interesting, considering how unrelated they are.


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#3 Offline zenpi314 - Posted August 13 2024 - 7:58 AM

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Hi, thank you for posting about Camponotus planatus.

I have been looking this whole season for a planatus queen, but did not find any.

Found lots of other species. Even kept a wild colony of planatus in my outside workbench.

They nested in the rim of the drawers.

I was hoping for a nuptial flight from them, but one evening a large colony of pheidole killed them all, and stole their brood.

I was so upset.

So please keep us posted on your queen.


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