Overall, my Camponotus floridanus colony is doing fine. A couple weeks ago I hooked up their Mini-Hearth to a new Labyrinth from Tarheel Ants. They haven't moved yet, but they are exploring.
Anyway... Today I noticed just one ant with a weird behavior. He's trying to climb the plastic wall and it's like he can't stick to it. There is no fluon or other lubricant where he's doing it at ground level. He just flails his legs trying to climb, falls over, maybe circles, and then does it again in the same general spot. A couple times I've seen it make it partway up the wall, but mostly he's pretty bad at it.
Anyone have any ideas what's going on here? I haven't fed them any new foods that might be contaminated and it's just this one ant. Nobody else is acting unusual. Is he maybe just about to die? I think my colony is at the stage where the original nanitics are dying off, I've had to remove several dead ants recently and they were all smaller ants.
Thanks for any ideas!
