#camponotus — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #camponotus, aggregated by home.social.
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A colony of aphids tended by a Camponotus noveboracensis carpenter ant. South Bristol, New York.
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Important colony update. Here are the soon to be newest members of the colony. #antvideo #ants #camponotus
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Gathering together some of my ant digital drawings and thinking about doing more this winter.
I start missing ants a lot during winter. My colonies are asleep and there are no ants outside.
#art #drawing #AntArt #ants #camponotus #crematogaster #insects
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Gathering together some of my ant digital drawings and thinking about doing more this winter.
I start missing ants a lot during winter. My colonies are asleep and there are no ants outside.
#art #drawing #AntArt #ants #camponotus #crematogaster #insects
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Gathering together some of my ant digital drawings and thinking about doing more this winter.
I start missing ants a lot during winter. My colonies are asleep and there are no ants outside.
#art #drawing #AntArt #ants #camponotus #crematogaster #insects
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Gathering together some of my ant digital drawings and thinking about doing more this winter.
I start missing ants a lot during winter. My colonies are asleep and there are no ants outside.
#art #drawing #AntArt #ants #camponotus #crematogaster #insects
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Gathering together some of my ant digital drawings and thinking about doing more this winter.
I start missing ants a lot during winter. My colonies are asleep and there are no ants outside.
#art #drawing #AntArt #ants #camponotus #crematogaster #insects
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Carpenter vs. carpenter!
Today I spotted a carpenter bee (_Xylocopa_) with a disembodied carpenter ant (_Camponotus_) head still latched on to its leg! (Circled in second photo if you can't see it.)
#bugstodon #insects #bees #ants • #Hymenoptera #Apidae #Xylocopa #Formicidae #Camponotus
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I just refilled the sugar feeder. Guess who showed first? #namedAnts #tuliptheant #ants #carpenterAnts #camponotus
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My Camponotus americanus queen (an uncommon species I find here during flights), has the biggest brood yet of any #Camponotus queen I've ever raised. Curious if related to the new dirt/clay nest type I've been testing, or just a queen that's a bit more prone to egg laying
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They are such beautiful ants! You *almost* forget how ravenous, warlike and sneaky they are!
The queens are all about the same shade of yellow/orange— which shows they all emerged at once. As their exoskeletons harden, their color will darken. In this species the wings are almost black—very striking! I hope the next batch isn’t all males— though this colony is massive— to think there were only 8 of them years ago.
(read alt text to learn how to spot a queen ant!) #antkeeping #ants #camponotus -
My carpenter ant colony takes up two bookshelves. They have two "outworlds" or places to find food and do ant stuff. They have three nesting spaces. (More about the setup in the alt text. )
Glass on antkeeping enclosures often has a hazy look. We use "fluon" to keep the ants from climbing out. It basically makes a powdery slippery layer near the top of the glass that ants struggle to climb. I wish I could find a solution that didn't look so messy.
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I found the most amazing scale insects (superfamily Coccoidea) on a tree today!!! Big, close to pea-sized, and salmon-coloured, and tended by carpenter ants.
I pried up the edge of an already damaged one with a leaf-stem, and some babies came out!!
#bugstodon #insects #ScaleInsects #Hemiptera #Sternorrhyncha #Coccoidea #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #Camponotus #macro @bugid
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I found the most amazing scale insects (superfamily Coccoidea) on a tree today!!! Big, close to pea-sized, and salmon-coloured, and tended by carpenter ants.
I pried up the edge of an already damaged one with a leaf-stem, and some babies came out!!
#bugstodon #insects #ScaleInsects #Hemiptera #Sternorrhyncha #Coccoidea #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #Camponotus #macro @bugid
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I found the most amazing scale insects (superfamily Coccoidea) on a tree today!!! Big, close to pea-sized, and salmon-coloured, and tended by carpenter ants.
I pried up the edge of an already damaged one with a leaf-stem, and some babies came out!!
#bugstodon #insects #ScaleInsects #Hemiptera #Sternorrhyncha #Coccoidea #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #Camponotus #macro @bugid
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I found the most amazing scale insects (superfamily Coccoidea) on a tree today!!! Big, close to pea-sized, and salmon-coloured, and tended by carpenter ants.
I pried up the edge of an already damaged one with a leaf-stem, and some babies came out!!
#bugstodon #insects #ScaleInsects #Hemiptera #Sternorrhyncha #Coccoidea #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #Camponotus #macro @bugid
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I found the most amazing scale insects (superfamily Coccoidea) on a tree today!!! Big, close to pea-sized, and salmon-coloured, and tended by carpenter ants.
I pried up the edge of an already damaged one with a leaf-stem, and some babies came out!!
#bugstodon #insects #ScaleInsects #Hemiptera #Sternorrhyncha #Coccoidea #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #Camponotus #macro @bugid
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Quick update on #daffodil the eastern black carpenter ant minor worker. I see her most days, though I think she’s slowing down a little. She mostly hangs out at “The Burl” which seems to be a pretty popular place for the older workers. #carpenterAnts #camponotus #ants
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It's been a few days since I've opened the enclosure for her colony, so she must have been lost in the apartment for several days. She managed to not get eaten by a spider or by #pica! (yes Pica will eat ants)
I gave her some sugar water before returning her to her home. #antVideo #camponotus #ants #antkeeping #antsOfMastodon #WithNarration
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Younger ants seem to make themselves very small when there are strange lights or vibrations. The queen was not bothered. #antVideo #WithNarration #shortVideo #ants #camponotus
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Got some wonderful video of a carpenter ant major (Camponotus pennslyvanicus) eclosing from her cocoon. Ants can't free themselves without help. Their first moments of adult life are spent being fussed over, cleaned and fed by as many as 8 excited siblings.
The first thing they see is a world full of others who just want to help them. The first place they experience is warm, safe and made just for ants.
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Breaking: Carpenter Ant, Daffodil Can Still Climb Stick, Rumors of Fat Gaster? Exaggerations!
Here is an important update on the situation at the Carpenter ant colony for all of you Daffodil stans out there. #antvideos #daffodil #carpenterants #camponotus #ants
#withnarration #verysilly
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Strange things are afoot in the carpenter ant nest this afternoon. A group of workers have seemingly turned against this particular larvae. They are all just biting it over and over... though not doing much damage? What could cause this? Maybe the larvae has died? Maybe it's infected? I will see if they really dismantle it or if it's just a bite fest. #camponotus #antvideo #withnarration
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Do you ever wish you could run like an ant?
I took her out to take some photos and she impressed me with her sprinting.
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All of the Daffodil-stans will be glad to know that the most popular carpenter ant has made it to the new outworld. #camponotus #antvideo #withnarration #carpenterants #daffodil #Bumble #dottie
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I think the girls really like their new outworld. More places to explore and do ant stuff. #antvideo #nosound #camponotus
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I know it's hard to believe but I mostly keep this account to try to get people to watch my ant videos. (why I want people to watch ant videos is a question I can't really fathom...) I made a really good new video today with a time lapse that shows how heat sensitive Camponotus discolor are. They move their pupae constantly to maintain ideal development conditions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNwqwxhai_4
#antvideo #withnarration #camponotusdiscolor #camponotus #insects #entomology #ants #antsOfMastodon
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The life cycle of an ant (Camponotus festinatus) laid out in a single photograph: eggs, larvae of various ages, a silk-covered pupa, and an adult worker. At #UTAustin's Brackenridge Field Laboratory, in Texas.
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I love early spring as an antkeeper. Outside you may only see a few ants as the wild colonies venture out for the first time, but as a keeper I get to see what's going on underground, in the trees and probably in your walls! This colony is about to have a huge population boom. All those eggs, pupae and larva are from ONE queen. Look at the empire she's making!
Video shows how the ants keep eggs clean.
#antvideo #camponotus #withnarration #camponotusdiscolor #ants
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The best thing about painting a few of your ants is that it allows you to follow one ant through her day. Find out what tasks she likes best and how she likes to relax.
Here is a video about a median worker named Daffodil
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You call them "Fruit Flies" But to the girls these are "Sky Burgers"
Tonight is Sky Burger Night at the carpenter ant nest. I gave them like 30 and they are just ... gone. I can't see them in the nest even. It's like they inhaled them. #antvideo #ants #carpenterants #camponotus #antkeeping
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New video short (with narration)
"Do Ants Think?"
(The sound on this was a pain, some error made it overlap before but now it is fixed. Thanks, @eclogiter )
#antvideo #ants #camponotus #carpenterAnts #consciousness #invert #invertebrates #antsOfMastodon #withNarration #fediverseExclusive #philosophy #philosophyofmind
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Camponotus rufipes ants tend treehopper nymphs for honeydew in a Brazilian cerrado.
#Formicidae #Camponotus #Membracidae #Ants #Photography #Insects
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Horrible! Lazy ants can't be bothered to take trash all the way to the curb. Dump trash right outside home.
For shame!
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My digital drawing of Dottie the carpenter ant. Miss that crazy girl. She would be so excited about all the new eggs and pupae that have just arrived. She was there in the hard days when the colony was small. It's her legacy.
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Here's a video with some narration about the "#ant porch" I got from undergroundCiti a few weeks back. It has a little water mote and lets you interact with the ants close up and take photos. I might modify it to have its own lighting system. There is so such thing as "too much light" when photographing ants.
Enjoy! and let me know what you think.
#antvideo #ants #camponotus #antkeeping #cutebabies #arthropods
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Did a little photoshoot with some of the girls. #ants #antphotos #macrophotography #insects #camponotus #cutebabies
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In past springs I've never had such a large colony. They grew to their current size in the summer. Now they are doing the prep work to have a big population boom for spring. This colony is going to be HUGE. #antvideo #carpenterAnts #camponotus #ants #antsOfMastodon #antqueen
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Ants trying to break back in to their home:
(with narration)
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She’s into books #ants #antstodon #antphoto #camponotus
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A young Camponotus foundress queen with her first batch of eggs, photographed at UTAustin’s amazing 90 acre Brackenridge Field Lab.
More queen ant photos in the gallery: https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Natural-History/Queen-Ants/
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Ants have excellent mental maps of their nest and territory. When a previously open passage becomes blocked they are very persistent about working to get it open again.
Let's hope these carpenter proof nylon caps hold!
(I think the caps that they chewed through were cheap ones off of ali-express. I've never had this issue with plastic caps before, they *feel* softer than other caps I've used. Lesson Learned!)
#ants, #antstodon #antsofmastodon #badants #camponotus
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These girls love their sugar water. Watch how their little gasters expand in this timelapse. I think the feeder will be empty by morning!
(with narration)
#ants #antstodon #antsofmastodon #antkeeping #camponotus #camponotusdiscolor #video #antvideo
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#ants, #antkeeping, #camponotus, #atta, #queenant, #Hymenoptera, #eusocial, #arthropods, #formica, #antnest, #formicarium, #ant, #flyingantday, #lasius, #fireant, #polyrachis, #Dynomyrmex, #Formicidae, #Aculeata, #antalgorithim, #eusocialintelligence, #Doleromyrma, #Leptomyrmex, #mutualism, #Trophobiosis, #Coevolution, #Myrmecophily
Just some stuff to follow for me and maybe you.
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My #Camponotus pennsylvanicus #ant colony had a nice population explosion this summer!
#AntKeeping #AntKeeper #CarpenterAnts #Myrmecology #entomology -
My #Camponotus castaneus #ant colony has added a FIFTH worker!
#AntColony #AntKeeping #AntKeeper #Ants #AntsOfTheFediverse #ILikeAntsMoreThanPeople -
My little colony of #Camponotus castaneus #ants have grown from a queen and her three workers to a queen and her FOUR workers! And there are many more on the way.
#AntColony #AntKeeping #AntKeeper #Ant #AntsOfTheFediverse #ILikeAntsMoreThanPeople -
I didn't update you guys on the #ants! We elected to only get the Camponotus castaneus colony - a Queen, three workers, and a couple of eggs. For scale, that round cap in there with them has a diameter of about 1 1/8in or 28mm.
#AntKeeping #Camponotus -
I haggled over the price of two #ant colonies we'll be picking up Saturday and got a pretty nice deal. My head voted for getting Camponotus pennsylvanicus because they are a good beginner species if boring and my heart voted for Camponotus castaneus because they're a more interesting but seemingly less beginner friendly species. My poor, abused wallet said "let's not fight... why not both?"
#Camponotus #AntKeeping