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[rcflyer]

Received camponotus fedtschenkoi through mail all workers die during shipping only queen remain.  Currently in new clean test tube. Should I still keep her in test tube or move her to mini hearth hoping for new foundings? She is not eating and is actively moving around inside test tube and trying to get out.  Refusing honey, sugar-water, fruit flies and mealworms.  She was purchased with 3 to 5 workers.  Doesn't look like she is going to hibernation mode at all. 

Edited by rcflyer, December 3 2020 - 10:34 AM.

[Ants_Dakota]

Received camponotus fedtschenkoi through mail all workers die during shipping only queen remain.  Currently in new clean test tube. Should I still keep her in test tube or move her to mini hearth hoping for new foundings? She is not eating and is actively moving around inside test tube and trying to get out.  Refusing honey, sugar-water, fruit flies and mealworms.  She was purchased with 3 to 5 workers.  Doesn't look like she is going to hibernation mode at all. 

if you can get a refund from the seller, try that. if not, keep her in a test tube, and keep offering her food, like you are doing.

all camponotus try to excape their test tubes, so that is normal.

[rcflyer]

 

Received camponotus fedtschenkoi through mail all workers die during shipping only queen remain.  Currently in new clean test tube. Should I still keep her in test tube or move her to mini hearth hoping for new foundings? She is not eating and is actively moving around inside test tube and trying to get out.  Refusing honey, sugar-water, fruit flies and mealworms.  She was purchased with 3 to 5 workers.  Doesn't look like she is going to hibernation mode at all. 

if you can get a refund from the seller, try that. if not, keep her in a test tube, and keep offering her food, like you are doing.

all camponotus try to excape their test tubes, so that is normal.

 

Is it possible to boost her with brood or worker from another camponotus sp. such as  festinatus or Castenus I have young colony of those. 

 

[Ants_Dakota]

 

 

Received camponotus fedtschenkoi through mail all workers die during shipping only queen remain.  Currently in new clean test tube. Should I still keep her in test tube or move her to mini hearth hoping for new foundings? She is not eating and is actively moving around inside test tube and trying to get out.  Refusing honey, sugar-water, fruit flies and mealworms.  She was purchased with 3 to 5 workers.  Doesn't look like she is going to hibernation mode at all. 

if you can get a refund from the seller, try that. if not, keep her in a test tube, and keep offering her food, like you are doing.

all camponotus try to excape their test tubes, so that is normal.

 

Is it possible to boost her with brood or worker from another camponotus sp. such as  festinatus or Castenus I have young colony of those. 

 

 

you should be able to. that is probably necessary.