Carpenter ants (Camponotus laevigatus)
Camponotus laevigatus · Camponotus
Carpenter ants (Camponotus laevigatus). Recorded flying in March. Black head, black mesosoma, black gaster. Uniformly glossy jet-black cuticle with no bicolor pattern, unlike red-headed congeners such as floridanus. Recorded near 26 of the 190 locations Dealate tracks.
When do carpenter ants fly?
Recorded flying in March.
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Queen appearance
Black head, black mesosoma, black gaster. Uniformly glossy jet-black cuticle with no bicolor pattern, unlike red-headed congeners such as floridanus.
fast but deliberate, mostly crepuscular in cooler montane forest
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: sugars and protein
Intermediate · Queen ~14-17 mm
Read more on AntWiki →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.
Recorded near
Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby, Richmond, Newton, Coquitlam, Abbotsford, Langley, Whalley, Delta, ChilliwackVictoria, SaanichAlbuquerqueBoston, South Boston, Worcester, Providence, Lowell, Cambridge, Manchester, New BedfordCentennialChicoColorado SpringsDenver, Aurora, Lakewood, Thornton, Westminster, Arvada, BoulderFresno, ClovisLos Angeles, Long Beach, Anaheim, Riverside, Santa Ana, Irvine, San Bernardino, Fontana, Oxnard, Moreno Valley, Huntington Beach, Glendale, Santa Clarita, Garden Grove, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Hollywood, Corona, Lancaster, Palmdale, Pomona, Valencia, Torrance, Pasadena, Orange, Fullerton, Van Nuys, Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, East Los Angeles, Koreatown, El Monte, Downey, Costa Mesa, Inglewood, West Covina, Norwalk, Burbank, Universal City, RialtoPortland, Vancouver, Gresham, HillsboroRenoSacramento, Elk Grove, Roseville, FairfieldSalemSalinasSalt Lake City, West Valley City, Provo, West JordanSan Diego, Chula Vista, Oceanside, Escondido, Carlsbad, El Cajon, VistaSan Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, Fremont, Hayward, Sunnyvale, Concord, Santa Clara, Vallejo, Berkeley, Antioch, Richmond, Daly City, San Mateo, ChinatownSanta MariaSanta RosaSeattle, Tacoma, Bellevue, Kent, Everett, RentonSpokaneStocktonTemecula, MurrietaTucsonVictorvilleMore Camponotus species
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