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Does Camponotuts Sansabeanus spray formic acid from it's gaster?

Started By DEAD_DOG , Oct 26 2023 7:16 PM

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#1 Offline DEAD_DOG - Posted October 26 2023 - 7:16 PM

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Curious since I think I remember reading that they did but I can't find where.


#2 Offline bmb1bee - Posted October 26 2023 - 8:49 PM

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Yes, all Camponotus are capable of spraying acid.


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#3 Offline Serafine - Posted October 27 2023 - 3:53 AM

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Camponotus can spray acid - not as far as the parasitic Formica wood ants but still over a few centimeters.

From what i've observed with my Camponotus they use it more like a close range shotgun. That is if they don't apply it through direct contact, which is their preferred choice.


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#4 Offline 100lols - Posted October 27 2023 - 7:30 AM

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Yeah my Camponotus go for the bite spray combo. Same with my Myrmecocystus species ants. Ants in the subfamily Formicinae spray formic acid.
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#5 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted November 2 2023 - 9:04 PM

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My first C. sansabeanus queen was super super aggressive. Unfortunately she and her nanitics were dumb as rocks in the sense that they would attack any food I put in. For example. Mealworm? The workers would freak out and the queen would march angrily over. SPRAY SPRAY SPRAY SPRAY. And once the food was dead (maybe it was already dead when I put it in, but they'd probably spray it anyway to be sure) it was trash. Yeah they didn't do so well. I loved that "Mean Queen" though :(


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Veromessor pergandei, andrei; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis; also separate journal: Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola

Liometopum occidentale;  Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive)

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus and californicus (inactive)

Tetramorium sp.

Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis

 

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