Location of collection: Under a rotting stick on a small piece of grass in a parking lot.
Date of collection: 23/05/2018
Length: 13mm
Coloration, hue, pattern and texture: Mostly black fading in to red on the legs and joints between body/head
Nest description: founding queen under a rotting stick
I've been calling it a Camponotus chromaiodes queen, but it has passed away and I am going to preserve it, so I want to confirm my guess. She laid a decent batch of workers the first year I had her, then the brood stopped developing after hibernation and she lost most of the workers in 2019. Pulled her from hibernation this year and hadn't seen any workers foraging. It's been about a week and the last two workers dragged her out of the nest.
