Carpenter ants (Camponotus fallax)

Camponotus fallax · Camponotus
Carpenter ants (Camponotus fallax). Recorded flying from May through June. Dark brown head, dark brown mesosoma, black with pale hair banding gaster. Slender arboreal build with a single petiolar node and banded gaster pubescence. Recorded near 3 of the 190 locations Dealate tracks.

When do carpenter ants fly?

Recorded flying from May through June.

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Queen appearance

Dark brown head, dark brown mesosoma, black with pale hair banding gaster. Slender arboreal build with a single petiolar node and banded gaster pubescence.
fast and erratic along bark and branches, crepuscular
Founding care
Fully claustral: seal her in a test tube setup, somewhere dark and undisturbed. She raises the first brood on her own wing muscles and needs no food or opening until the first workers appear.
Needs a winter diapause: a cool, dark rest period each year.
Diet: Insects, meat, sugar water, honey etc.
Intermediate · Queen ~8-10 mm
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Care data from antkeeping.info (CC BY 4.0).

Habitat

Dead wood · also under bark · typical for this genus
Check logs, stumps and dead branches for landed queens. Look over dead trunks for queens exploring the bark.

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