Carpenter Ants (Camponotus) | AntsCanada Tutorial

Most people in the world are looking for ways to kill carpneter ants. We ant keepers find them to be amazing pets to keep! This video is a tutorial on how to care for carpenter (Camponotus) ants as pets. Visit us at http://www.antscanada.com Thumbnail and photos in this video courtesy of Alex Wild Photography http://www.alexanderwild.com. You can find the Camponotus ant photos used in this video here: http://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Taxonomic-List-of-Ant-Genera/Camponotus Special thanks to Leon Xiong and Joe Curry (our GAN Farmer in Michigan, USA) for the footage of Camponotus in Omni Nests. Links to formicariums featured in this video: Omni Nest Large (includes an outworld): http://www.antscanada.com/shop/omni-nest-large/ All-You-Need Camponotus Hybrid Gear Pack (includes an AC Outworld): http://www.antscanada.com/shop/all-you-need-camponotus-hybrid-gear-pack/ Want an ant farm? Check out our ant shop. We ship worldwide: http://goo.gl/I4l7Ho Need to buy an ant colony for your ant farm, or do you have ant colonies to sell/give away? Find out more about our GAN Project: http://goo.gl/jzo9Lc A brand new video is uploaded on this channel every Monday so be sure to SUBSCRIBE to my videos to catch every ant video we release! Thank you for the support. Click here to watch every video we have ever made: https://goo.gl/8zNkIm Click here to watch our last video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1qz5LW3Bik Solenopsis geminata playlist: https://goo.gl/9sN0Iv AntsCanada Tutorial Playlist: https://goo.gl/eHHrlG Join us at the new AntsCanada Ant Forum: http://forum.antscanada.com AntsCanada Official Website http://www.antscanada.com Like us on http://facebook.com/antscanada Follow us on http://twitter.com/antscanada Follow us on http://www.instagram.com/antscanada Subscribe to us on http://www.youtube.com/antscanada Email us at info@antscanada.com for any questions or inquiries. About AntsCanada.com: We believe ants are the most amazing creatures on the planet, and every new discovery about their micro world gives us some profound insights into the world around us and ourselves. Bringing the ant farm and love of ant keeping to a whole new level, we are dedicated to show the world the joys of keeping big and healthy pet ant colonies. Shipping worldwide since 2009, we are innovators of ant keeping products for ant lovers and museums alike.

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1. formica
2. I tried to kill a carpenter ant once. It shot acid in my eye and I couldn't open it for hours....
3. A queen walked up to me at night
   I thought it was a wasp but it had no wings
   The I see the wings scars
   I scream to my parents "get a box"
   Now I have a carpenter queen in a test tube it looks like
4. Are there any Carpenter ants that are able to jump? I live in western Florida and saw what looked like one that was jumping. I never saw one jump when I lived in the North Eastern portion of the US.
5. I just got a camponotus in early April and I peeked very quickly and she already has I would say about 5 or 6 eggs and its been a week...should i have about 20 workers by the end of the year?
6. Hey Antscanada, I live in Arkansas, working outside as a gaurd, and the seventeen carpenter ant colonies that i have been watching on the property just started their nuptual flights today! it was extraordinary.
7. I WANT TO GET A QUEEN RIGHT NOW BUT I CAN'T BECAUSE I'M NOT ALLOWED OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE RIGHT NOW! WHYYYY!
8. Anyone selling males for red and black carpenter ants in Texas
9. How do you feed the workers in the test tube set up?
10. Bull ants care video please. Just caught a Queen help. Melbourne, Australia
11. Now I Get To Play God
12. Let me tell you Pro-Tips on how to treat your catpenter ants. (one week later) well they are all dead.
13. i want to make an ant tank from to pieces of glass i have that are 2 feet by 4 feet. can i sandwich them together like 2 inches ish and just fill it with the substrate i get them from??? i would like to have a slim tank i can mount of the wall.thanks!
14. lasius
15. What kind of carpenter ants live in portland, oregon?
16. Do a leaf cutter ant care video
17. 1 question.
    Do ants have adrenaline rushes when they are about to die or when they are fighting.
18. I found 1 2 days after mating season and have a healthy queen
19. Carpenter Ants are already flying in Georgia. Just found a huge queen.
20. Can you build a home for them?