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In northern Italy one keeper found nests mostly in dead oak stumps on the ground, each with a single entrance and only one or two small chambers.",{"question":256,"answer":257},"Is Camponotus fallax endangered?","Locally, yes. It is listed as critically endangered in the Swedish Red List and on the early-warning list of Germany, and it is scattered and rarely abundant, with the loss of old trees and dead wood named as the main reason for its decline. A Red List is a warning about wild populations and not a ban, but German keepers advise against taking wild queens or colonies in such regions.","Slender dark ants with sparse hairs, paler legs and pale edges on the gaster segments, usually black but sometimes with a reddish pronotum or thorax, mostly in the south, plus a few broad-headed majors, that freeze or sprint away when disturbed. Keepers mix them up with Camponotus piceus, C. lateralis and the rare C. tergestinus, so a microscope check is needed to be sure, and the notch in the front edge of the clypeus is the quickest clue.","en",{},true,[263,266,269,271],{"kind":264,"text":265},"tip","Copy the dead wood a founding queen would choose: a cardboard or wood mat in the test tube or a small wooden chamber, darkness and quiet. Offer a drop of honey in the first days, with a small soft insect if you like, since the queens take the honey far more eagerly, then take everything out after a day and leave her alone, because this queen is nervous and slow to start.",{"kind":267,"text":268},"watchOut","Small workers drown easily. 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