Camponotus spec. (from south/east Asia)

[highered]

Antsore's description does not include Camponotus spec. (from south/east Asia)'s size. How big are the workers please? Thank you.

[SteveUK28]

If you had clicked the german section you would see that they are around 6-11mm... and no i dont speak german, i just use common sense.

[amrik singh]

Hello
I did stay two months in Punjab this summer and had plenty of time observing the abundent local Camponotus .They are very interesting :They forage almost exclusively on the ground surface and often foragers moves in colones sometime 20 or30 from and also to theyr nest following a scout very efficiently (few ants get loss on the way) with 2 or 3 big majors. The polymorfism is very importent and large majors like often in other ants have brown head ( they are all black ants ).
We have a nest in our new house and I told every body not to do anything against them or the 3 species of small other ants who have nest in the house . In India poeple do not bother for ants if it does not cause to much problem with the food. In Punjabi there are two words for ants :the big ants "kada" thesmall ants:" kirri" .
Do you know the specie or more about this ant ?
I had a queen with me in a testtube and now i have a small colony of about 10 workers with the queen and much brood.

[JimmyVe]

Maybe if you could place some pictures here.

[amrik singh]

No not for the moment and now i have only small minors workers not bigger than a Serviformica .Those picture I have take in India are to blure to see anything.

[insanebe]

Antsore's description does not include Camponotus spec. (from south/east Asia)'s size. How big are the workers please? Thank you.

you could use a translator page while in the german part it helps ( a bit.....)

[gabranth]

you don't even need a translator to see the ant sizes

[insanebe]

you can see the measurements but you don't know what its refering to, majors & soldiers etc

[Ant mad]

i dont speak german but you can kinda tell what each one means...
correct me if im wrong on this
konigin = queen
mannchen = i geuss this is male
arbeiterinnen = worker
soldaten = soldiers
and from that pic you can look at them side by side and compare (thats if they are in the same place in the list on both)
hope this helps

[amrik singh]

hello,
My Camponotus from Punjab are doing very well : There is now about 18 workers and not a singel one have
died since the start of the colony. I did put the test tube cover with red foil in the 30/40cm ant appartement
with open lid borderd with fluon since one month and at least yesterday the ants started to escavate a nest now the escavation is in full swing.The workers are the very small first workers +big minor workers, not yet medium and majors.

[JimmyVe]

Nice, it seems like you are doing a great job. And your ants to.

[amrik singh]

Yesterday morning I found that the colony have moved in the nest during the night exept the queen who was still in the
test tube with 3 or 4 workers and this night she also moved to the new nest .The excavation work continue at a much slower pace but I am a bit worry because they also make a chamber at the botom by removing clay granulates (maybe they are not large enough) I hope it will not cause to mutch problem to hummidify the nest.

[amrik singh]

hi,
The ant appartement 's antfarm is covert on the side under the arena , toward the room window , by a black foil and on the observation side toward the darker rear of de room by a red foil partly . I realised that they did stay as wel in the uncoverred chamber (including larvas , nymphs and the queen) so today I removet the red foil altogether and it seems not to disturb the ants at all.

[amrik singh]

Hi,
A few weeks ago 2 very small first workers have died . After a few days I observed the first time recrutement for this colony to honey water following a odorant track . About 2 or 3 weeks ago the colony seems to have enter a phase of very low activity ,foraging very little if at all but the worker population still
grow because the eclosion of new adult ants .There are now some bigger , medium size workers.
The distanded gaster of some workers indicate some reserve of food.
These ants seems to like dry conditions : They occupie mostly the dryest part of there nest and do not go to drink.

[amrik singh]

Hi,
The Camponotus I have are apparently not of the polymorphic specie that I thought it was but of a smaller workers ,much less aggressive specie , much more interested in liquids like honey than in preys .
despite their faster movement I find them very sluggish and non aggressive , the colony grow steadily but slowly . I find them very boring compare to the Camponotus I observed around my house in Punjab and to the Myrmicines that are my main interest. I do not know the specie but maybe they become more aggressive and get major workers when the colony get bigger... hopefully.