Carpenter ants (Camponotus subbarbatus)

Camponotus subbarbatus · Camponotus

Carpenter ants (Camponotus subbarbatus). Recorded flying from April through June. Dark brown to black head, dark brown mesosoma, black with yellow bands gaster. The bold black-and-yellow banded gaster and wings make this stand out from plainer workers. Recorded near 56 of the 190 locations Dealate tracks.

When do carpenter ants fly?

Recorded flying from April through June.

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Queen appearance

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Emmett Collins-Sussman · CC BY-SA

Dark brown to black head, dark brown mesosoma, black with yellow bands gaster. The bold black-and-yellow banded gaster and wings make this stand out from plainer workers.

fast, erratic bursts

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: fruit flies, small crickets, mealworm segments, honey-water, sugar-water

Intermediate · Queen ~9-11 mm

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

Windsor Albany Allentown Ann Arbor Atlanta, Athens, South Fulton, Sandy Springs Birmingham Cedar Rapids Charlotte Chattanooga, East Chattanooga Chicago, Aurora, Joliet, Naperville, Elgin Cincinnati Cleveland, Akron Columbia, MO Columbus, GA Columbus, OH Davenport Dayton Des Moines Detroit, Warren, Sterling Heights Fort Wayne Grand Rapids Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point Huntsville Indianapolis Jackson Kansas City, Overland Park, Olathe, Independence, East Independence Knoxville Lexington, Lexington-Fayette Lincoln Los 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, Rialto Louisville Madison Meads Nashville, Clarksville, Murfreesboro New South Memphis, Memphis New York City, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, Staten Island, Newark, Jersey City, Upper West Side, Jamaica, Yonkers, East Flatbush, East New York, Washington Heights, Astoria, Borough Park, Paterson, Bridgeport, Elizabeth, Stamford, Sunset Park, Sheepshead Bay, North Stamford, Harlem, East Harlem, Elmhurst, Bushwick, Gravesend, Corona, Edison Omaha Peoria, North Peoria Philadelphia Pittsburgh Raleigh, West Raleigh, Durham, Cary Richmond Roanoke Rockford South Bend Springfield, IL Springfield, MA, New Haven, Hartford, Waterbury Springfield, MO St. Louis Syracuse Toledo Topeka Tulsa, Broken Arrow Tuscaloosa Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Newport News, East Hampton, Hampton Washington, Baltimore, Arlington, Alexandria

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