ANTSTORE World of Ants

von **McK** » 7. Feb 2009 16:53

Because some people here were showing interest in this species, I'm going to make a blog here about my colony

You can find the original blog Hyperlinks sind nur für registrierte Nutzer sichtbar, it's in Dutch but you can use google translate if you want.

This species is like most other Camponotus species very slow in developing workers, so it took almost a year to raise 15 workers.
At the moment all the older workers have died because of age and I have only 5 workers remaining, but there's a lot of brood so they'll be fine.
You can find the older pictures at the original blog, the one below is one I took earlier today.

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von **JimmyVe** » 10. Feb 2009 13:19

They are in deed very nice ants.

von **McK** » 10. Feb 2009 13:29

Well, I like them because the workers have a more slender posture than most Camponotus species, also the queen isn't as shiny as the others

von **Zagone** » 10. Feb 2009 19:19

Hehe, curious that you like their slenderness; I've allways preferred robust and sturdy ants, like most Messor species.

And ofcourse most Camponotus majors are also very beautiful.

But this looks like a grand species indeed!