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A couple of my Pogonomyrmex colonies enjoying some poppy seeds


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#1 Offline FSTP - Posted September 25 2019 - 8:47 PM

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I have been mostly giving my Pogonomyrmex californicus colonies various  species of grass seeds for the last few months since I ran out of poppy seeds, well I recently purchased another supply of poopy seeds (Papaver somniferum) and gave two fo my larger colonies a few little piles these seed and they went absolutely nutso pututso over them. I shot a short video of them franticly gathering them. If you find the music off-putting just mute it. These two colonies are housed in our illustrious leaders dirt boxes, but the colonies were started from queens I caught locally to me.

 


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#2 Offline P0rcelain - Posted September 25 2019 - 11:08 PM

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adorable


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#3 Offline Major - Posted September 26 2019 - 8:37 AM

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#4 Offline ANTdrew - Posted September 26 2019 - 8:56 AM

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I love it! Did you ever try giving them quinoa seeds? My Tetramorium love hemp seeds, too.


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#5 Offline FSTP - Posted September 26 2019 - 11:46 AM

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yes I have, they seem to like them as well. However they never go as crazy as they do when I have not given them poppy in aawhile. I may have addicted them to opium by accident...lol.


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#6 Offline ANTdrew - Posted September 26 2019 - 12:31 PM

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Well, honeybees get addicted to caffeine in coffee blooms, so it’s not impossible.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.




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