SteveUK28: Re: My Camponotus species (15. Jan 2009 21:12)

Very nice

melk9: Re: My Camponotus species (19. Jan 2009 01:25)

Yes, they are beautiful! I really like them when they have the abdomen full of food, like in the last two picks.
Hugs

McK: Re: My Camponotus species (24. Jan 2009 15:47)

Wow, very nice species, I hope you'll be able to determine them someday.

melk9: Re: My Camponotus species (25. Jan 2009 03:53)

The closer I got to a identification of this specie was in http://www.antstore.net/posting.php?mode=reply&f=206&t=9604 - They sell this one and says that it comes from Asia, but it look like to the one I have. Hugs

Camponotus habereri

Unique colored Camponotus species from East Asia.Even first workers do have the unique colored stripes of the Queen.

Taxonomy: Subfamily Formicinae, Tribe Camponotini
Distribution: East Asia
Color: red with black-yellow striped abdomen
Size: Workers: 0.8 - 1.3 cm, Queen: 1.6 cm
Nutrition: Honey- or sugar water and insects
Hibernation: No
Climate: subtropical (moist), Flatland
Nest building: Wood nests
Planting: nothing specific
Level: easy

melk9: Re: My Camponotus species (3. Feb 2009 18:59)

My queen is dead! Shit!!! The colony will groe 'till the last egg. Shit!!!

Zagone: Re: My Camponotus species (3. Feb 2009 19:14)

Wow, that sucks! Any idea how it happened?

Ant mad: Re: My Camponotus species (3. Feb 2009 20:35)

its annoying when you loss a queen no matter what speices.
best of luck next time

Skippy: Re: My Camponotus species (3. Feb 2009 21:23)

The closer I got to a identification of this specie was in http://www.antstore.net/posting.php?mode=reply&f=206&t=9604 - They sell this one and says that it comes from Asia, but it look like to the one I have. Hugs

Camponotus habereri

Unique colored Camponotus species from East Asia.Even first workers do have the unique colored stripes of the Queen.

Taxonomy: Subfamily Formicinae, Tribe Camponotini
Distribution: East Asia
Color: red with black-yellow striped abdomen
Size: Workers: 0.8 - 1.3 cm, Queen: 1.6 cm
Nutrition: Honey- or sugar water and insects
Hibernation: No
Climate: subtropical (moist), Flatland
Nest building: Wood nests
Planting: nothing specific
Level: easy

It is not that specie :) I saw this one from Kalytta with my naked eyes , and there are differents (in color too) it is only similar specie to this one.

Of course , sorry to hear that about your queen :( she maybe had some parasite in her body or so

JimmyVe: Re: My Camponotus species (5. Feb 2009 15:54)

Sorry to hear that melk9.

melk9: Re: My Camponotus species (9. Feb 2009 21:02)

Sorry to hear that melk9.

Well... Nothing is really lost. Yesterday night I was in a kitchen of a friend and I felt something crawling up my leg. When I looked that it was a Camponotus sp queen. Afterwards I found plus 2 queens on the ground. Isn't it great? I haven't to search a new queen, it searched me!! ;^) Today the three queens are in little pots already, and I'm waiting for the first one to lay its eggs, because will be this one which will adopt the eggs and the larvaes of the old dead queen. Soooo... The formicary will have a new ruler, and the old workers will need to be get free, otherwise they will kill the new queen.

A doubt: Will the single queen to take care of more than 10 larvaes and a lot of eggs?
Hugs

The new candidates for the formicary queen :mrgreen: :

http://www.megagaleria.com/pictures/Pic_17036_7.jpg

The old eggs and larvaes:

http://www.megagaleria.com/pictures/Pic_17036_8.jpg