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[Canadian anter]

Their is a tapinoma sessile colony somewhere in my house and it is really bugging me. They magically get into the test tube as long as their were traces of honey left in the test tube or on the cotton. My camponotus queen ate 50% of her brood and one of my tetramorium ate 90%. What do I do?

[Loops117]

I have a carpenter ant colony that has taken over my house. Any time i leave an ant nest outside of my bug cabinet, i find a couple c.pennsylvanicus trying to get into the nest. Are they trying to locate the new colonies and mark them for death? Or are they just trying to get leftovers, which there usually isn't.

 

Also, i had no clue that would cause queens to eat their brood.

[Mdrogun]

I have heard of cases where Camponotus colonies ripped open test tubes and killed the queen inside, especially when there is a Camponotus queen inside the test tube. I imagine that Tapinoma sessile are after food. Whenever I kept them they would swarm food within seconds and they never wanted to fight.

[Loops117]

It had my buddy bugging out. He kept thinking his C.pennsylvanicus were getting out. I asked him if he had carpenter ants in and around his home and he said yes. Problem solved.

[ParaStatic]

I was discussing this with Loops the other day as well. In my ant room/office I get stray camponotus workers roaming around my incubator area and outworld locations. I once thought I had escapes until I put the stray back into the only logical outworld it could escape from. It was quickly put to death. Yes, captive ants do draw wild, I assume they find the waste I remove from the outworlds and tell their sisters.

[AntsMAN]

I have a few Camponotus workers wondering around now, that I accidentally let free, no wild ones though.

I will usually find them dehydrated somewhere.

 

Maybe bait the wild intruders with poison.

[ParaStatic]

I'd be scared of captive ants working a way out to poison and bringing it home. Maybe silly, but I don't allow pesticides anywhere near my ants haha.

[Reacker]

I think you need to put out poison bait or call an exterminator.

 

I like ants when they're outside of my house. I like ants when they're inside my house, purposefully contained. I dislike ants when they're inside my house and not purposefully contained; the proper course of action is to kill these ants as you would with all other undesired domestics.