You will receive Camponotus Cruentatus Queen Ant with 1-30 workers Live Queen Ant (depending on your selection) inside a test tube with food and water
Guarantee: Queen is guaranteed to be alive on arrival.
Please kindly check the “KB ANTS” YouTube Camponotus Cruentatus Care video on the link below:
Latin Name: Camponotus Cruentatus
Subfamily: Formicinae,
Tribe: Camponotini
Keeping Level: (1) suitable for beginners
Distribution: South Europe
Habitat: Prefers open forest areas, Forest edges
Colony form: monogyne
Queen: Size: 14 - 16mm Colour: dark grey to black; first two Gaster segments in orange
Worker: Size: 6 - 14mm Colour: dark grey to black; first two Gastersegments orange, extremely polymorph (Minor, Media and Major workers)
Soldier: not present
Males: Size: 7 - 8mm Colour: black, slim
Nutrition Honey and insects e.g. Dipterans like Flies or Mosquitos
Air humidity: Arena: 30 - 50%; Nestpart: 50 - 60%
Temperature: Arena: 21 - 28°C; Nestpart: 24 - 28°C
Hibernation: yes, from the end of November until the end of February at 15°C (has an endogenic Biorhythm)
Nest form: Build their nest in rotten wood and other deadwood
Kind of Formicaria: Plaster Nest, PLA Nest, Sand Farm,
Formicaria size: Size: M - L
Substrate: Farm: Plaster with sand, Sand-Loam, Cork
Arena: Sand, Sand-Loam
Planting: similar to grass areas with grass and other plants
Decoration: Branches, Roots, Treeneedels, Stones
Description: Camponotus Cruentatus is one of the biggest ant species in Europe. Very tough! They attack only in case of nest disturbance. They defend themselves with their strong mandibles and their acid gland
Development: mating flight: on warm days in May/June
Founding: claustral (without feeding)
Colony size: up to 10.000 Individuals
Quantity: (see options)
Weblinks: https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Camponotus_cruentatus
Shipping Restrictions: We do not ship live specimens outside of the UK.
These ants are not native to the UK and are therefore illegal to release them into the wild.
Please contact us if you no longer wish to keep them and we will email you a prepaid postage label so you can send them back to us.
Any questions, please let us know.
Thank you
