Carpenter ants (Camponotus socius)

Camponotus socius · Camponotus
Carpenter ants (Camponotus socius). Recorded flying in May. Tan to reddish-brown head, reddish-brown mesosoma, pale golden-brown with darker banding gaster. Translucent wings and a banded golden gaster contrast against uniformly dark workers. Recorded near 16 of the 190 locations Dealate tracks.

When do carpenter ants fly?

Recorded flying in May.

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Queen appearance

Tan to reddish-brown head, reddish-brown mesosoma, pale golden-brown with darker banding gaster. Translucent wings and a banded golden gaster contrast against uniformly dark workers.
fast, erratic bursts; a common nocturnal forager
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: insect protein and carbohydrates: crickets, mealworms, fruit flies, diluted honey, sugar water, fruit, crushed seeds
Intermediate · Queen ~14-17 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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