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[AntBoi3030]

One of my camponotus pensilvanicus queens burst open with hundreds of parasites.

[KadinB]

One of my camponotus pensilvanicus queens burst open with hundreds of parasites.

dang that's crazy!

[AntBoi3030]

Yea and completely discsgusting the whole tube is covered with dead maggots.

[PetsNotPests]

The sad part about this thread is that it's reached 2 pages in 10 days...    

[Antkeeper01]

The sad part about this thread is that it's reached 2 pages in 10 days...    

yeah i have something to add i squished a pheidole queen after 2 hours of digging with my shovel and the workers were still tending to her 

[AntBoi3030]

Oh god….that’s terrible

[KadinB]

The sad part about this thread is that it's reached 2 pages in 10 days...    

Is that good?

[DaAnt]

No, because that means lots of queens died.

[PetsNotPests]

 

The sad part about this thread is that it's reached 2 pages in 10 days...    

Is that good?

 

This thread is about deaths in queens or colonies, and 2 pages of that is no bueno. 

[KadinB]

No, because that means lots of queens died.

oh yea ic now. I could post like 20 other deaths but i don't wanna flood it with messages from just me. 

[KadinB]

A while me and my friend had gotten a small colony of aphaenogaster uinta but they ended up getting cooked in the car. Me and my friend recently were able to get a founding queen under a rock and another small colony which i got to keep. I am very exited to raise these guys. There not very common here in cali either.

[yaboiseth]

2 years ago when I was barely interested and had only seen AC videos, I caught a pheidole sp. queen at work (At the time I thought it was a fire ant of course lol) Anyways, colony grew well being my only colony for nearly a year and one day I check on them and my queen was motionless and on her back, legs curled in, the whole nine yards, then I decided to let the colony die off. After still tending to them a month later of a motionless queen and an active colony nonetheless she just MAGICALLY pops to life. Still to this day don't know what even happened but I attempted moving in an extra queen I caught and I found one dead in the outworld (I assumed that would happen) and I forgot to replace their water once and every worker died, alates, majors and queen lived. That was quite a few months ago and they have dwindled to a few soldiers, one queen alate and the queen, always with eggs but never a single worker hatching. I'm not sure why the eggs aren't hatching besides they are the alate's eggs and my queen won't lay or something Idk. Pretty depressing to see my first huge colony so small and dying. Sorry for the story added to it    lol

[yaboiseth]

I also thought that maybe they culled off the original queen and took in the new one which might have been infertile but that sounds highly unlikely.

[eea]

One of my camponotus pensilvanicus queens burst open with hundreds of parasites.

that must have been revolting

[AntBoi3030]

Extremely as a had to clean it out

[KadinB]

Extremely as a had to clean it out

Awww that must have been gross.


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[smares]

2 years ago when I was barely interested and had only seen AC videos, I caught a pheidole sp. queen at work (At the time I thought it was a fire ant of course lol) Anyways, colony grew well being my only colony for nearly a year and one day I check on them and my queen was motionless and on her back, legs curled in, the whole nine yards, then I decided to let the colony die off. After still tending to them a month later of a motionless queen and an active colony nonetheless she just MAGICALLY pops to life. Still to this day don't know what even happened but I attempted moving in an extra queen I caught and I found one dead in the outworld (I assumed that would happen) and I forgot to replace their water once and every worker died, alates, majors and queen lived. That was quite a few months ago and they have dwindled to a few soldiers, one queen alate and the queen, always with eggs but never a single worker hatching. I'm not sure why the eggs aren't hatching besides they are the alate's eggs and my queen won't lay or something Idk. Pretty depressing to see my first huge colony so small and dying. Sorry for the story added to it lol

[smares]

Yaboiseth- I've read that majors don't/can't rear brood. So the eggs might be good but there are no workers to feed and clean them so they die. This is the case with fire ants at least.

[Kaelwizard]

Yaboiseth- I've read that majors don't/can't rear brood. So the eggs might be good but there are no workers to feed and clean them so they die. This is the case with fire ants at least.

Yeah majors aren't meant to be caretakers so that definitely could be the case.

[TestSubjectOne]

One of my first colonies was a Camponotus sansabeanus that I bought at 15 workers. Needless to say, I was ecstatic and constantly wanted to look at them. A week after they arrived, I left them on my desk in direct sunlight for a few hours and their queen died. She was the only one to die due to her size, but of course that doomed the colony. I tried to cool them off in the fridge, but at that point she was beyond saving. In the end, I transferred her workers into another Camponotus sansabeanus colony which I still have a year later, albeit only at three workers.  It seems like I don't have any luck with that species. This was one of the only colonies I have lost, but I can confidently say that I will never make the mistake of leaving ants in direct sunlight again.