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[Shaye]

Found in a domestic area with plenty of softened wood around. Some have infested even the houses themselves, living in the walls.
The queen is 14mm long, majors are approximately 11mm long, and minors are approximately 8-9mm long.
Red-Brown head, Yellow-Brown thorax, and black abdomen. Very aggressive, can only bite. Observed actually harrasing a solenopsis invicta colony.
Had a large Nuptial flight a few days ago.

I only have a few pictures of a captured, and freshly-mated, queen.
http://s1079.photobu...rary/Camponotus

Edited by Shaye, July 25 2017 - 10:03 PM.

[Shaye]

Not sure if it matters, but...
I wanted to see if multiple queens of this species would get along, and when I put another mated queen in they grouped together. They now have a group cluster of eggs that they both watch while they huddle, but I am not sure if this is natural since they seemed very stressed with eachother for a while.

[RenDragon]

If I recall... Camponotus tends to be multi queen, though they sometimes will force other queens out. I found a few Camponotus queens during winter months by my house that I figured it happened to them.

[Shaye]

Does anyone have any suggestions for more info that I could provide to help further this ID?

[cpman]

Does anyone have any suggestions for more info that I could provide to help further this ID?

If you could get your hands on a major and give us some photos with details on the head, that would be ideal.

[Shaye]

Will do. I will be going back to that property soon enough and will catch a few for pictures.

[Shaye]

Correction: largest Majors are 11mm, smallest Minors are 7mm, and some workers are in between.

New images added of major.
http://s1079.photobu...rary/Camponotus