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[Serafine]

Did anyone try to feed protein bars to ants?

[Solenoqueen]

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Edited by Solenoqueen, November 27 2016 - 2:09 PM.

[Solenoqueen]

Did anyone try to feed protein bars to ants?

Nope. I might try that

[BMM]

I didn't see anything about Tapinoma sessile, so I'll add what I've found. For sugar, they seem to prefer sugar water. They don't seem to like honey and have ignored any solid sugary foods I've given them. As for protein, they haven't shown much interest in cooked meats, but they absolutely love raw chicken.

[JasonD]

My Pogonomyrmex rugosus LOVE nyjer seed and small crickets. They seem to be going for sugar water too, but it's difficult to be 100% sure. I tried blue grass seed and they didn't seem to like it at all. 

[Roachant]

Add crested gecko food to the list! My tetramorium go nuts for it, perhaps other species will too.

[Bracchymyrmex]

My Camponotus Pennsylvanicus love mango (the non-stringy kind usually called champagne mango).

[AkumaArtist]

Thank you for the m. barbarus info,i was thinking 'bout spiders and honey,so its good to know that they hate it 

[Ant Broski]

That is an amazing list!

[AntLoverAdam]

Heres a list of Prenolepis Imparis food.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Likes:

 

Bananas,

Honey,

Crickets,

Mealworms,

 

Dislikes:

Apples

Strawberrys

 

 

Note that these are my opinion 

[Buckets]

Pretty new to antkeeping, I didn't see any Nylanderia species listed, but as far as I know they don't seem to like mealworms but they do eat a whole lot of fruit flies. If anyone knows any other food they'd probably eat that'd be helpful.

[NZAntKeeper]

I have Nylanderia and mine seem to like crickets, protein jelly (Latic acid from antkit), cockroaches, spiders and flies that's all I have fed them so far.

[Vanko]

Nice job!

[Origional_Username]

Hoped for a hint on a varied diet for brachynyrmex sp.

 

Been feeding mine sweet liquids and insects

 

Pure honey water, sugar water on rotation. Sugar water is a 1:1 ratio, the honey I just dilute few drops.

 

Insects:

love wingless fruit flies (main food source)

Will take case weaving moths,(the mobile ones) full life cycle (tried farming since available to me but unadvised, long life cycle....also pest)

Will take the occasional wild inch worm, caterpillar like things, found in garden, don't know name.

 

Have had no luck with juices or fruits.

 

Colony is almost 1 year old.

 

Suggestions anyone?

[FeedTheAnts]

Formica dolosa love spiders, honey, very young grasshoppers, flys, sometimes wasps, and small cockroaches.

They dislike beetles, anything to large, and any medium sized bug that's alive.

[MegaMyrmex]

I find that many predatory ants and finicky ants seem to cherish termites. My teteramorium colony refused to eat anything at first, but once a termite was placed in, hey presto, the workers(and queen) dove straight forwards. Fruit flies might work too, for some subterranean ants such as ponera pennsylvanica. Actually, fruit flies are the only thing that I have seen p. pennsylvanica eat. It also works for t. sessile too.

[Ants Galore]

What do pachycondyla villosa queens love to eat?

[Shaye]

What do pachycondyla villosa queens love to eat?

Workers are predaceous and prey on termites.

[Shaye]

Mine personally loves to devour termites, though not unless it's dead.

[Connectimyrmex]

Camponotus Nearcticus prefered diet:
Honey (with no added water)

Apples

Formica pupae
Termites

Dubia Roaches