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Camponotus Barbaricus Journal

Started By millsart , Mar 31 2020 7:09 AM
camponotus barbaricus

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#1 Offline millsart - Posted March 31 2020 - 7:09 AM

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This Queen was captured from the Maltese islands on the 2nd July 2019 still winged but lost her wings after a few hours,

 
 
First eggs on 8th July
 
 
Eggs turning into larvae on 21st july 
 

 

Larvae start turning into a pupa on 28th july

 
 
pupae on 2nd August 
 
 
nanitics hatched on 13th August 
 

 

After hibernation on 11th March 2020

 

 

nanitic foraging in arena on 28th March 2020

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 


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#2 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted March 31 2020 - 8:19 AM

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Wow! Impressive development for Camponotus.

"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#3 Offline millsart - Posted April 13 2020 - 8:19 AM

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colony  on the 5th april 2020
 
 
Worker feeding before feeding Queen by Trophallaxis 
 

 

Queen feeded by a worker by Trophallaxis (12th April 2020)


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