Post by chris74 on Jun 20, 2015 7:08:29 GMT
This journal is about 2 queens of these since the long term plan is to trade one of them for another Camponotus specie.
I saw the Camponotus were flying on the 12th of May where we have our summer house. Unfortunately I couldn't stay there but I went back the day after and found 3 queens about 200 meters from the nests (there are 2 of them that I know about). One died the day after, I think it was some kind of parasite since there were these tiny larvas coming out of her after her death. They were not thin as nematodes (not sure about the spelling or what they're called in English), they were more like white, tiny leeches.
So, now I have 2 queens left and they seems to like it in their test tube. Both test tubes are above the vivarium where I keep 2 lizards so the temperature is about 25-27C in the daytime and 21-22 at night, depending on the outside temperature.
The both have eggs already, one have about 10 and the other have about 7. I try not to disturb them too much but there will be some pictures when I have more time.
I'm quite sure they're Herculaneus since Ligniperdus is supposed to like their nests to be in stone/sand and these nest are in old dead wood. But if someone knows an easy way to tell them apart without a very good camera or microscope, feel free to let me know :-)
I saw the Camponotus were flying on the 12th of May where we have our summer house. Unfortunately I couldn't stay there but I went back the day after and found 3 queens about 200 meters from the nests (there are 2 of them that I know about). One died the day after, I think it was some kind of parasite since there were these tiny larvas coming out of her after her death. They were not thin as nematodes (not sure about the spelling or what they're called in English), they were more like white, tiny leeches.
So, now I have 2 queens left and they seems to like it in their test tube. Both test tubes are above the vivarium where I keep 2 lizards so the temperature is about 25-27C in the daytime and 21-22 at night, depending on the outside temperature.
The both have eggs already, one have about 10 and the other have about 7. I try not to disturb them too much but there will be some pictures when I have more time.
I'm quite sure they're Herculaneus since Ligniperdus is supposed to like their nests to be in stone/sand and these nest are in old dead wood. But if someone knows an easy way to tell them apart without a very good camera or microscope, feel free to let me know :-)
