Engwinner's 2013 Camponotus novaeboracensis journal (big photo(graph)s) --...
It's been a while since I kept ants, but we've had some hot weather after a week of heavy rain, and finding queens is too easy!This queen was found on June 28th, 2013 near Seattle. She was crawling...
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I would guess her to be one of the larger Camponotus species from the photos. Camponotus nearcticus have black to brown coloring (link below) and she appears to have a bit of red that reminds me of...
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Doctorant also pointed out that she is too big for a C. nearcticus and asked if she had a medial carina on her clypeus. I took some new photographs and measured her more carefully to answer those...
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I see your THA nest in the background... Nice!
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She's just the right size for Camponotus vagus, and that species is on AntWeb's invasive list. An argument against is that her head seems more compressed in the dorsoventral dimension than the one in...
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But aren't Camponotus vagus only found in EU?
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Miles wrote:I see your THA nest in the background... Nice!I'm saving it for a Formica pacifica -- they are my favorite.
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Miles wrote:But aren't Camponotus vagus only found in EU?AntWeb has it in their catalog of invasives. I don't know where it's invaded -- I'm kinda grasping at straws, here![edit: Oh, never mind. C....
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Doctorant says it's Camponotus novaeboracensis, a.k.a. the New York carpenter ant. Myrmecos has a shot of one: link
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My goodness! 48 hours after I caught her, she's laid an egg!This journal may turn out to be interesting, after all.
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Neat to see some more Camponotus novaeboracensis, I have quite a few of these queens and they are my favorite ones. Looking forward to seeing how yours go, I'll have to start a journal one of these...
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Four days after capture, she had 5 or 6 eggs:Eight days after capture she has 12 eggs, and wants to show them to you: Oh, and regarding her enclosure -- after she finished her first day of...
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At twelve days after capture, a more careful examination of the eggs reveals that there are exactly 13. One can clearly see amber-tinted areas which I assume are the developing embryos, and there is a...
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I sure don't think Mikey has the correct information. Camponotus species of temperate locales often take 2-3 months of development for workers to emerge. 30 days would be astounding.
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Miles wrote:I sure don't think Mikey has the correct information. Camponotus species of temperate locales often take 2-3 months of development for workers to emerge. 30 days would be astounding.Well,...
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I find my Camponotus to take around 3 months, maybe a little sooner this year as it is pretty hot up stairs. I have a couple queens that are roughly one year old now, one has 9 workers and the other...
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engwinner wrote:Miles wrote:I sure don't think Mikey has the correct information. Camponotus species of temperate locales often take 2-3 months of development for workers to emerge. 30 days would be...
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Miles wrote:I sure don't think Mikey has the correct information. Camponotus species of temperate locales often take 2-3 months of development for workers to emerge. 30 days would be astounding. Just...
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At 33 days after the first egg was laid, I count 3 pupae and 10 larvae. That means the full complement of eggs has survived so far. (The eggs are hard to count in the photos, but I have additional...
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engwinner wrote: At 33 days after the first egg was laid, I count 3 pupae and 10 larvae. That means the full complement of eggs has survived so far. (The eggs are hard to count in the photos, but I...
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