When the eggs hatch, the larvae drop to the bottom of the nest chamber, where they feed as scavengers on debris.
The skins and underfur of rodent prey are used to line the nest chamber.
The nest chamber is sometimes located in seemingly unsuitable places, such as among logs piled against the walls of houses.
An entrance, which may be under water or above ground, leads to a nest chamber lined with leaves, grass, moss, bark, and hair.
A vertical tunnel two to three feet into the ground with a sideways and upward turn leads to the nest chamber.
These ants bring in foraged leaves and drop them on the floor of a nest chamber.
The soil of its nest chambers is invariably moist.
No queens were found in any of the 225 dissected nest chambers containing C. anderseni.
Furthermore, it was not possible the find an egg-laying queen in the main nest chambers of nests.
A large colony requires either many small nest chambers or a few larger ones.
