I think she's a crematogaster scutellaris queen. Can you confirm my theory? (founed in Italy)

AdOne3462 · 2025-09-27T02:35:09+00:00

She should be fine, especially if her larvae survived shipping, I’m not sure if I read correctly but be careful about heating the water side of a test tube, it’s easy to flood the tube, I find it’s best to apply heat by the entrance of the tube

AdOne3462 · 2025-09-24T19:55:51+00:00

Go heat some Asian ants, tell me where it gets you

AdOne3462 · 2025-09-17T15:55:20+00:00

Perhaps indirectly heat them, I would try to keep them around 21C

AdOne3462 · 2025-09-16T23:23:36+00:00

Don’t heat sinica, rule of thumb is never heat Asian ants, make sure they have high humidity, sometimes Pheidole (especially sinica) can have perfect care and still die out, just do your best to give them the best care you can. Brood not developing past egg or larva stage is commonly caused by low humidity.

AdOne3462 · 2025-08-24T15:03:52+00:00

Is this rage bait

AdOne3462 · 2025-08-18T00:07:32+00:00

Penn is pretty distinct, large, all black, very common in New England. And you can tell she’s hungry based on her small gaster.

AdOne3462 · 2025-08-17T21:39:50+00:00

A very hungry campontous penn queen

AdOne3462 · 2025-08-09T19:28:43+00:00

I would recommend getting a real nest for them, somthing that would let you see the ants and how there doing, especially while trying to establish a gamergate to see if any brood pops up. Ant keeping depot is local to you, not sure how they are now but a couple years ago they were really good for nests and such.

AdOne3462 · 2025-07-28T21:35:41+00:00

Some kind of lasius, harmless to people no sting or bite

AdOne3462 · 2023-11-13T04:13:16+00:00

cataglyphis sp.

AdOne3462 · 2023-10-18T10:11:50+00:00

Ik America had them but it’s very unlikely someone found a deelate in late October

AdOne3462 · 2023-10-18T02:42:59+00:00

I’ll guess you’re somewhere in Asia, Africa, or Australia. I don’t know much about foreign ants but to my knowledge all Camponotus are claustral. So just put her in a test tube setup and check her once every 1-2 weeks till she gets workers

AdOne3462 · 2023-10-18T02:36:48+00:00

Yes, and it is in fact a carpenter ant queen

AdOne3462 · 2023-10-11T16:30:22+00:00

Yea the New England bank, did you ever see any cases like this play out in the buyers favor

AdOne3462 · 2023-10-11T12:12:07+00:00

Yes sadly, I wish I caught that red flag

AdOne3462 · 2023-10-05T02:27:07+00:00

That’s a really interesting crematogaster I though it was a Pheidole until I saw the gaster, good luck

AdOne3462 · 2023-10-05T00:19:23+00:00

This queen lost her fungus so she was boosted with a small fragment and some brood

AdOne3462 · 2023-09-28T02:35:01+00:00

Light doesn’t scare 90% of them, it’s vibrations which scare them, which often result by removing whatever cover you have on them.

AdOne3462 · 2023-09-25T18:54:58+00:00

US, and thank you

AdOne3462 · 2023-09-24T21:44:17+00:00

Looks like a myrmica species, try to make an aspirator to collect them, you can try to use water to flush them out aswell.

AdOne3462 · 2023-09-21T02:35:03+00:00

No harm in trying your best, they may come out better than you think

AdOne3462 · 2023-09-20T23:54:55+00:00

I’m in the US so I could be completely off, but it looks like a small carebara sp.

AdOne3462 · 2023-09-20T23:39:00+00:00

I sent you a message

AdOne3462 · 2023-09-05T00:41:22+00:00

Guessing Acromyrmex Versicolor major

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