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Doleromyrma sp. ant doing hamster wheels circles in test tube...

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#1 Offline CoolColJ - Posted March 30 2018 - 1:38 AM

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I added a new smaller plastic test tube into the Doleromyrma sp. container today.

This used to be a water feeding test tube for another outworld,  but as the water levels got lower, I pushed the cotton dam further downwards.

Anyway ever since this has been installed, there has been a constant stream of workers entering and doing hamster wheel circles near the cotton dam!

There are always at least two workers doing hamster wheel circles in there....sometimes a third joins in, and when one leaves, another is always there to fill the spot.... very strange....

have no idea why they are doing this!

 

I guess that's how they get their daily exercise :P

 

Considering this was a wild colony a week ago that I found under some wood chips in my front yard, also makes it even more weird.

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I also dropped a bunch of Pheidole brood in front of their test tube nest, which the workers have dumped in a small pile in the front part of their nest.

You can see it in the above video, at 0:43 a worker is dragging one in at the bottom left

I still don't know what they like to eat, but this is one way to get them some protein....

 

I know the workers will take some raw honey, but they haven't since the first time.
Nope to sugar water, meat, raw nuts, grape, dead baby cockroach...

They have a lot of brood, so I expected them to be eager for food, but some workers have fully loaded gasters.


Edited by CoolColJ, March 30 2018 - 1:40 AM.

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