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#1 Offline Canadant - Posted May 24 2020 - 1:44 PM

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Anybody feeding their colonies waxworms? I fed my tetramorium and very cheesy june bug yesterday and they loved it. Today I fed my CrematogastEr ;) a nice big cheesy cicada nymph and they're digging in now. Waxworms probably have a cheesy interior as well. I heard Formica generally love soft body insects.

Any luck with waxworms?

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#2 Offline AntsDakota - Posted May 24 2020 - 5:47 PM

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Anybody feeding their colonies waxworms? I fed my tetramorium and very cheesy june bug yesterday and they loved it. Today I fed my CrematogastEr ;) a nice big cheesy cicada nymph and they're digging in now. Waxworms probably have a cheesy interior as well. I heard Formica generally love soft body insects.
Any luck with waxworms?
Thanks!

I am. My Myrmica love them. They slurp up all that juice.........

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#3 Online OhNoNotAgain - Posted May 24 2020 - 11:22 PM

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I think I was just looking up waxworms and someone on the forum said they are high in fat, less high in protein, and it appears some ants don't go for them?

I could be misremembering though.


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#4 Offline Canadant - Posted May 25 2020 - 3:50 AM

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Hmmm..... any other experienced members want to chime in?
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#5 Offline Serafine - Posted May 25 2020 - 4:16 AM

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My Camponotus like them but only to a certain amount. Feeding to many will result in them being ignored.


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#6 Offline Superant33 - Posted May 25 2020 - 10:17 AM

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My trap jaws like to eat them when they are small. If they are to big, they usually kill them but don’t eat them. And as Serafine said feeding an abundance of wax worms will result in them being ignored (in my case killed but not consumed).

#7 Offline Canadant - Posted May 25 2020 - 1:55 PM

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Thanks guys!
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