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Worms as feeders?

Started By TheMicroPlanet , Jan 22 2020 9:11 AM

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#1 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted January 22 2020 - 9:11 AM

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So there are a lot of places around here (mostly gas stations) that sell Nightcrawlers for fishing. Would they be good ant food?


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#2 Offline Manitobant - Posted January 22 2020 - 9:35 AM

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I don't think so unless you're keeping something like solenopsis invicta as worms are extremely durable.
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#3 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted January 22 2020 - 10:08 AM

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I don't think so unless you're keeping something like solenopsis invicta as worms are extremely durable.

Would it help to slice them up?


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#4 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted January 22 2020 - 12:23 PM

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Around here, you can watch dozens of Lasius workers viciously biting worms to death...... They seem to love them.  :)


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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

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Tetramorium immigrans                                  Camponotus vicinus, modoc, novaeboracensis, herculeanus

Formica pallidefulva, argentea                        Solenopsis molesta

Formica cf. aserva                                          Lasius brevicornis, neoniger

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Lasius claviger

#5 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted January 22 2020 - 6:07 PM

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Around here, you can watch dozens of Lasius workers viciously biting worms to death...... They seem to love them.  :)

Good to know!


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#6 Offline ANTdrew - Posted January 22 2020 - 6:26 PM

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I gave a big earthworm to my Tetramorium mega-colony once and they made short work of it. That was pretty crazy to watch.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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#7 Offline ponerinecat - Posted January 23 2020 - 3:30 PM

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Small generalsits love worms. Tetras especially.


#8 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted January 23 2020 - 4:42 PM

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Everywhere I’ve seen ants they seem to like squashed worms, or the ones that come out after a rain and don’t make it back to the dirt in time afterward.

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Veromessor pergandei, andrei, stoddardi; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis, Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola, CA02

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus, P. californicus (inactive)

Liometopum occidentale (inactive); Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive); Tetramorium sp. (inactive);  Lasius sp.

 

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#9 Offline FSTP - Posted January 23 2020 - 11:01 PM

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I've given those large night crawlers to large colonies of Pogonomyrmex sp. in the wild and they were very receptive to them. However I've never given those large night crawlers to my captive colonies.


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#10 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted January 24 2020 - 7:54 AM

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I don't often see worms requested as feeders on other sites... is that for a reason?


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#11 Offline ANTdrew - Posted January 24 2020 - 4:27 PM

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Earthworms are mentioned here: https://www.formicul...ts-and-feeders/

I can think of no compelling reason they couldn’t be used as a feeder if you have a species that likes them.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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