Hello Ernteameise;
I’ll get some from my sister-in-law….she’s cat crazy!
RPT
I have a sister like that.... but with here, it is horses.... not much ant food to be had, there....
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Posted April 27 2024 - 1:05 AM
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Posted May 1 2024 - 3:05 AM
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Oh wow- look at all these new eggs and larvae! Whole piles of them!
How do you make them stop????
As for the "wild" colony on the balcony....
it literally takes just 5 minutes after I offered some food to have a whole massive swarm devouring the offering.
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Posted May 2 2024 - 6:41 AM
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So while all my other pet ants are ignoring the fish food (Gel food Tetra Delica), the "wild" girls on my Balcony are going crazy for it.
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Posted May 3 2024 - 9:56 AM
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Chicken is always a success
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Posted May 8 2024 - 11:57 AM
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Many of those pupae I showed earlier have now become workers, so the colony is growing steadily.
And they continue to have a large pile of eggs.
They are also very hungry.
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Posted May 16 2024 - 2:10 AM
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Yesterday, I fed some large crickets to my Messor barbarus colony.
However, this morning, they had dragged one of these crickets onto the garbage pile.
I thought this was a bit of a waste.
So instead of throwing it away, I gave this cricket to my outside Lasius colony.
And they were all over it, swarming it in minutes.
Waste not want not.
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Posted May 16 2024 - 11:18 AM
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I moved the small inside Lasius colony to the bifurcated mini-hearth, since they still have some growing to do.
It went surprisingly fast and clean and without any hassle- I just shone light on them and they went into the darkened new home.
They have tons of brood, so they might probably fill out this nest in a few months time.
They have also stored some trash on the upper level (in the normal mini hearth, they also did that) but I hope this won't be a problem and will solve itself when the colony grows bigger.
Cleaning a running nest with some extremely fast small ants is certainly not an option.
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Posted May 22 2024 - 11:45 AM
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Massive new egg pile!
(right side of the picture, atop the pile of cocoons).
Also, boiled turkey meat is also accepted.
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