Carpenter ants (Camponotus floridanus)

Camponotus floridanus · Camponotus
Carpenter ants (Camponotus floridanus). Recorded flying from April through September. Reddish-orange head, reddish-orange mesosoma, dark brown to black gaster. Classic red head/mesosoma against a black gaster, unlike uniformly black congeners such as modoc or laevigatus. Recorded near 17 of the 190 locations Dealate tracks.

When do carpenter ants fly?

Recorded flying from April through September.

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Queen appearance

Reddish-orange head, reddish-orange mesosoma, dark brown to black gaster. Classic red head/mesosoma against a black gaster, unlike uniformly black congeners such as modoc or laevigatus.
fast and erratic, strongly nocturnal
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.
No winter diapause needed.
Diet: sugars and insect protein
Beginner · Queen ~14-20 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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