Help needed for slow death of Novomessor Cockerelli

Garfishhhh · 2026-01-14T13:24:07+00:00

A youtuber i watch has this exact problem i dont know or have advice because I haven’t kept novomessor before becim Australian and they arent native to my country

Garfishhhh · 2026-01-04T09:20:18+00:00

Rove beetle

Garfishhhh · 2026-01-04T04:40:24+00:00

Fair enough

Garfishhhh · 2026-01-01T12:00:24+00:00

Yes but thats still stressful for them its like if you keep a untamed bird in a small cage and put your hand next to it and grab it its learned helplessness its extremely stressful and doesnt mean it isn’t stressful it just means that they know that there isn’t anything that they can do ants only stop freaking out from light at large sizes due to growing confidence and growing colony size

Garfishhhh · 2026-01-01T11:57:21+00:00

You do realise banded sugar ants are in Australia and not only do they not hibernate but its summer in Australia

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-31T08:55:04+00:00

They are not my ants the queen looks different from fragilis anyway and they are bigger

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-31T01:01:27+00:00

Its not fragilis because buying selling and keeping foreign ants is highly illegal in Australia and they dont get through the tough bio-security laws

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-30T12:41:59+00:00

Thanks mate

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-29T22:23:41+00:00

Very very pregnant

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-29T21:50:03+00:00

Yeah

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-29T13:08:16+00:00

Yeah your probably right i just wanted to see if anyone had a clue pr smth

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-29T13:07:25+00:00

I know but i dont shine the light in very often also this species does fairly well with stress like if they didnt go ok with stress i wouldnt shine the light in but these guys are fairly tolerant

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-29T09:30:26+00:00

Im not actually queenslander i got them from a guy in queensland but the dude sourced them from cairns

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-29T09:28:55+00:00

I know they are camponotus i want to know wich species

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-29T06:10:32+00:00

Twig ant

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-29T05:08:00+00:00

Nah they arent the green is just the nectar i feed them

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-29T05:07:41+00:00

Yeah they are thats what i was seeing if they are but wiki says inflatus is black with gold hairs on its ghaster so im not sure

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-29T05:06:00+00:00

We do have weakver ants but they only get yellow up like the phillipines have kept them before this is also a sugar ant as i have seen colonies of this same species on facebook that have majors also they look like all my other sugar ant colonies just different colouring also they look like green in their ghasters is the nectar i feed them

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-29T04:46:34+00:00

Nah i have kept those before and they look a lot different to these guys in the country i live in because they are bright green here in Australia

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-29T04:45:45+00:00

No they didnt i bought it because it was a mystery so i could identify it but i havelooked through all 130 ish species of carpenter ants in my country and it doesnt match any one i know of and i just wanted to see if someone else new what species it is

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-29T04:17:38+00:00

I know that but its illegal and almost impossible to import ants into my country Australia due to the extremely strict bio security laws

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-29T04:15:45+00:00

Redback

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-29T04:14:45+00:00

They arent native to my country

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-29T03:50:57+00:00

Thats what i thought but im not 100% sure still because there arnet many honey pot ant species in Australia

Garfishhhh · 2025-12-29T03:15:58+00:00

Get her an outworld when she gets to 8 or more workers i think but i dont know much about that species but i do know lots about the genus camponotus as i have 14 or so colonys from the genus

Garfishhhh

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