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[KadinB]

I just got a colony of Camponotus ca02 in the mail when doing a trade and they all got cooked in the sun and died. They had around 50 workers and a nice looking queen. This was the first time i would have kept them. I traded a colony of formica moki with 40 workers inside of a fire brick nest.

[KadinB]

I should have said that for this thread anyone can put queens and colony's that have died and that this isn't just for me. (community thread) 

[Membrayne]

Not exactly a "death" but I was forced to release a Camponotus queen my brother found in the house because I didn't have the proper equipment to handle it at the time, it started chewing out of the empty pill bottle I'd set up like a test tube, so I had to put it on a nearby log on a trail

 

If nothing else I know where there's almost certainly going to be a colony now, though

[strawnkayden1]

When I was a noob I kept a queen in a tank . I never saw her again.

[strawnkayden1]

I saw a queen and asked my grandpa to get a cup for it. He wouldn’t go grab one so I had to, when I came back it was squished.

[MrPurpleB]

Not exactly a "death" but I was forced to release a Camponotus queen my brother found in the house because I didn't have the proper equipment to handle it at the time, it started chewing out of the empty pill bottle I'd set up like a test tube, so I had to put it on a nearby log on a trail

 

If nothing else I know where there's almost certainly going to be a colony now, though

Funny, I am about to get some CA02 shipped, so I hope have some better luck thru the shipping process. It has been week these past days, so I have waited for temps to cool down.

 

I think my worst death queen was probably a Dorymyrmex queen I had, which drowned in some honey & sugarwater mix. It does not sound too awful, more embarrassing haha. 

[Manitobant]

Last year I accidentally crushed a polyergus queen when the glass of their casita nest came off and then slammed back on. It was a large colony too.

[strawnkayden1]

Last year I accidentally crushed a polyergus queen when the glass of their casita nest came off and then slammed back on. It was a large colony too.

that's a big oof.

[KadinB]

Last year I accidentally crushed a polyergus queen when the glass of their casita nest came off and then slammed back on. It was a large colony too.

dangg that must have sucked


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[strawnkayden1]

7 of my pheidole queens died to mold from other queens in their test tube while I was on vacation smh, I was looking forward to keeping them.

[SYUTEO]

I once caught a Polyrhachis dives queen in my yard and believe it or not just an hour later she died and there long strands of fungus all over her.

[Kaelwizard]

When I just started antkeeping I though fully claustral queens also didn't need water. I put a C. novaeboracensis queen in a container full of sand and twigs. Later that year when I realized they also need water I put a Formica queen in a plastic container full of wet coco coir and a bottle cap of water, then I proceeded to leave that outside and she overheated. 

 

Just remembered another one. I found a Leptothorax queen for the first time, and she squeezed in between the substrate and the side of the container and died.

Edited by Kaelwizard, June 23 2021 - 5:51 AM.

[KadinB]

When I just started antkeeping I though fully claustral queens also didn't need water. I put a C. novaeboracensis queen in a container full of sand and twigs. Later that year when I realized they also need water I put a Formica queen in a plastic container full of wet coco coir and a bottle cap of water, then I proceeded to leave that outside and she overheated. 

 

Just remembered another one. I found a Leptothorax queen for the first time, and she squeezed in between the substrate and the side of the container and died.

dang dude that sucks. I had a tetra colony when i was noob and fed them a twitching insect from outside and than they all started twitching to..... then died a month later. I was new to ant keeping as well smh lol.

[SYUTEO]

One time I had a colony of Camponotus irritans with about 40-50 workers and when I went to my grandma's house for about 3 days I forgot to give them a test tube with water and when I came back only 5 workers and the queen is left and all the other workers died.

[ANTS_KL]

My past leptogenys colony died for no reason and I've never seen that species since

[ZTYguy]

Welp back before I joined formiculture I had a bunch of ants. Including:
Camponotus ca02 small colony
Brachymyrmex large colony
Solenopsis xyloni large colony

Then I got a Preno colony from someone and I didn’t notice any mites cause they were in a dirt box. Fast forward about a month and all colonies were wiped out and I quit anting until picking back up in 2020.

[KadinB]

Welp back before I joined formiculture I had a bunch of ants. Including:
Camponotus ca02 small colony
Brachymyrmex large colony
Solenopsis xyloni large colony

Then I got a Preno colony from someone and I didn’t notice any mites cause they were in a dirt box. Fast forward about a month and all colonies were wiped out and I quit anting until picking back up in 2020.

wow that would suck so much


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[SYUTEO]

Welp back before I joined formiculture I had a bunch of ants. Including:
Camponotus ca02 small colony
Brachymyrmex large colony
Solenopsis xyloni large colony

Then I got a Preno colony from someone and I didn’t notice any mites cause they were in a dirt box. Fast forward about a month and all colonies were wiped out and I quit anting until picking back up in 2020.

My first ever ant colony which is a year old Camponotus albosparsus colony died from mites as well.

 

Edit: I edited this post because the previous one doesn't make sense.

Edited by SYUTEO, June 26 2021 - 5:53 PM.

[Antkeeper01]

 

Welp back before I joined formiculture I had a bunch of ants. Including:
Camponotus ca02 small colony
Brachymyrmex large colony
Solenopsis xyloni large colony

Then I got a Preno colony from someone and I didn’t notice any mites cause they were in a dirt box. Fast forward about a month and all colonies were wiped out and I quit anting until picking back up in 2020.

My first ever ant colony died from mites as well, they are a year old Camponotus albosparsus colony.

 

/were

[strawnkayden1]

Welp back before I joined formiculture I had a bunch of ants. Including:
Camponotus ca02 small colony
Brachymyrmex large colony
Solenopsis xyloni large colony

Then I got a Preno colony from someone and I didn’t notice any mites cause they were in a dirt box. Fast forward about a month and all colonies were wiped out and I quit anting until picking back up in 2020.

My first ever ant colony died from mites as well, they are a year old Camponotus albosparsus colony.

/were

Hahahahahaha sorry that's too funny.