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Preferred Food by Species

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#161 Offline Serafine - Posted July 17 2023 - 4:50 AM

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Food likings can be very different from colony to colony.

For example my gf's Myrmica LOVED frozen shrimps, while my Myrmica (most likely same species, found around the same time) mostly ignored them and instead prefered mealworms and roaches.

 

Also colony taste can and will change over time, so it is worth trying foods that got rejected during early development.

My Camponotus barbaricus for example didn't think much of roaches until they were well past 1000 workers. Now it's their preferred food.

 

A list might be useful to get ideas, but don't follow it too the letter.

Try different stuff, try again a year later, and generally just experiment around and provide a broad selection of foods to prevent malnutrition.


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