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Nice, it seems like you are doing a great job. And your ants to. ;)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hi,
Yesterday I observed , in the nest a first major or media worker much bigger than other workers , with the gaster well full but it do not go out of the nest yet .
The colony become more actives and bigger ,probably 40 or 60 workers and much brood. The temperature is now 26/ 27° C in the room . I feed them diluted honey and dead insects ,enough honey (bio honey) or maybe sugar seems to be very necessary to these ants for the colony to grow well : When I was giving little honey the
workers were much less active , consumed fewer insect and had less brood . Two or three months ago I give
them a Tenebrion (coleopthere) ,the ants did not attack it except mild and short attacks when it approach the nest entrance or the honey .I left it there because it was eating garbage of the colony , it just die yesterday but the ants don't show any interest .
I can not see all the colony at ones because the loam covering still part of the glass in front of the gallery but I thing now there is at least 60 workers and 4 or 5 majors ( or medias , I do not know the specie) much bigger than the minors and with proportionaly larger head . The brood is also much more in number of nymphs and larvae compare with the number of workers.
Now the Camponotus have move the nymphs to a place where they are well visible and they are many. The colony is now
also much more active and have now easily 100 workers and , seeing the number of nymphs , will double soon .These ants are not great hunters they seems to feed mostly on sugar rich food and dead or dying insects and spiders at least at this stage of the colony development . They have a hard time catching even small cripple domestic crickets .
The colony is now much more active hunting and the foragers are showing much more enthusiasm and succes caching small (around 5 mm to 8mm) crickets. The majors/media are staying in the nest and have the gaster more dilated by food than other workers among the nymphs there are some of apparently even bigger majors.
Didn't wanna open a new thread jsut to ask this, so I thought I'd borrow this thread abit!
I have a Camponotus species from Laos, who were doing pretty well, tehre we 14 workers when I got them and a queen; but due to some misfortunes with their intended home I had to place them in a temporary container where over time 6 workers died; but a few were still born and their current numbers are up to 20 workers.
Now I've moved them into a new basin, where they nest in a ytong nest. The ground is made up of a layer of filtercotton to contain moisture longer, and then half of the arena is potsoil and the other a red, finegrain sand. Now to the issues...
Firstly, I can't get them to consume any protein. I've tried mealworms, crickets, houseflies, mincedmeat and a boiled egg. They havn't eaten from any of them. They do consume the sugarwater I give them though, so the ants themselves survive. But my nest issue is that due to the lack of protein, none of the larvae live to make a cocoon or become an ant for that matter.
Now, am I doing soemthing wrong? Or do I jsut have to find some specific food for them that they will eat? When I kept them in their old, small container that was dry and didn't ahve any soil or sand at all, they ate both crickets, houshold spiders and other things I gave them. But since I moved them into the new arena they ahvn't touched the food. They attack it abit, but then leave it alone. Could it be that the arena is too moist? It's at around 70% atm.
Thanks for any help in advance.