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#1 Offline CoolColJ - Posted August 29 2018 - 2:16 PM

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I saw a video of someone placing wooden slabs against a termite nest.
After a few days the underside of the wood is covered in termites, like over a 1000.

He collects the wood to feed his finches :)

So yeah, if you can have easy access to a termite nest, much easier to do this as a feeder than trying to raise your own colony
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#2 Offline Nare - Posted August 29 2018 - 4:25 PM

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I know people make traps with moist cardboard as well.


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#3 Offline BobJ - Posted August 29 2018 - 6:16 PM

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David Mora del Pozo has a youtube channel with some good termite capture videos from 6 years ago.  It's in spanish but the videos speak for themselves.  Here's a good cardboard based trap video.

 

 


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#4 Offline CoolColJ - Posted August 31 2018 - 3:58 AM

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That method would work in my area, as they all seem to be undergound

 

I might try it next week.

Will need to bring a small gardening hand shovel :)


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Current ant colonies -
1) Opisthopsis Rufithorax (strobe ant), Melophorus sp2. black and orange, Pheidole species, Pheidole antipodum
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Heterotermes cf brevicatena termite pet/feeder journal = http://www.formicult...feeder-journal/





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