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Carrying food back to nest

Started By Jonny8040 , Aug 3 2020 7:21 AM

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#1 Offline Jonny8040 - Posted August 3 2020 - 7:21 AM

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Do you all let your ants carry food back to the nest or do you pin the insects down??

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#2 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 3 2020 - 8:31 AM

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I think most people just let the ants do what they want with it.
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#3 Offline BlueLance213 - Posted August 3 2020 - 8:58 AM

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I let my ants do what they want,  They know how to keep their place clean provided there is a place they can move rubbish to


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#4 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted August 3 2020 - 9:12 AM

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I just put food in and let them do whatever.


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#5 Offline ANTdrew - Posted August 3 2020 - 9:31 AM

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Different ants do different things with food. Tetramorium and Formica love dragging stuff in the nest, but they remove it promptly. Crematogaster just eat where it lands and never clean anything. Camponotus just stay in their nest doing nothing all the time.
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#6 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 3 2020 - 9:48 AM

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Different ants do different things with food. Tetramorium and Formica love dragging stuff in the nest, but they remove it promptly. Crematogaster just eat where it lands and never clean anything. Camponotus just stay in their nest doing nothing all the time.

Plenty of other people’s Camponotus are active. Maybe you’ve just had bad luck.

#7 Offline Jonny8040 - Posted August 3 2020 - 10:05 AM

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Thank you all so much!
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#8 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted August 3 2020 - 10:39 AM

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Different ants do different things with food. Tetramorium and Formica love dragging stuff in the nest, but they remove it promptly. Crematogaster just eat where it lands and never clean anything. Camponotus just stay in their nest doing nothing all the time.

Plenty of other people’s Camponotus are active. Maybe you’ve just had bad luck.

 

No, my Camponotus are pretty inactive too.
 


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#9 Offline Antkid12 - Posted August 3 2020 - 11:52 AM

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My Tapinoma drag back everything and almost never clean it. They have tons of trash in their nest right now.


Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 

#10 Offline AntsDakota - Posted August 3 2020 - 12:12 PM

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Different ants do different things with food. Tetramorium and Formica love dragging stuff in the nest, but they remove it promptly. Crematogaster just eat where it lands and never clean anything. Camponotus just stay in their nest doing nothing all the time.

Plenty of other people’s Camponotus are active. Maybe you’ve just had bad luck.

Sorry, gonna have to agree with ANTdrew, at least on small colonies. I know colonies with over 50-100 workers can be active, but small colonies literally do sit around and do absolutely nothing all day.


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#11 Offline BlueLance213 - Posted August 3 2020 - 9:42 PM

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My Camponotus seem to be weird, literally anything and everything causes them go to into mass hysteria, but otherwise they just vegetate unless they are needing something.

 

My Lasius Flavus though will come out often, and drag back all solid food they find. I have yet to see anything discarded yet though.


#12 Offline Antkid12 - Posted August 4 2020 - 5:16 AM

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Different ants do different things with food. Tetramorium and Formica love dragging stuff in the nest, but they remove it promptly. Crematogaster just eat where it lands and never clean anything. Camponotus just stay in their nest doing nothing all the time.

Plenty of other people’s Camponotus are active. Maybe you’ve just had bad luck.

Sorry, gonna have to agree with ANTdrew, at least on small colonies. I know colonies with over 50-100 workers can be active, but small colonies literally do sit around and do absolutely nothing all day.

 

Yeah, my small Camponotus pennsylvanicus colony I had a while back almost never explored their outworld.


Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 

#13 Offline TechAnt - Posted August 4 2020 - 10:19 AM

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Different ants do different things with food. Tetramorium and Formica love dragging stuff in the nest, but they remove it promptly. Crematogaster just eat where it lands and never clean anything. Camponotus just stay in their nest doing nothing all the time.

Plenty of other people’s Camponotus are active. Maybe you’ve just had bad luck.
Sorry, gonna have to agree with ANTdrew, at least on small colonies. I know colonies with over 50-100 workers can be active, but small colonies literally do sit around and do absolutely nothing all day.
Yeah, my small Camponotus pennsylvanicus colony I had a while back almost never explored their outworld.
I think both of these opinions are wrong. It really depends on the species and their living conditions, as I have C. semitestaceus who never venture into their outworld like at all, and C vicinus who have half the colony out there at least all the time.

Also, can we move this topic to another thread or a group PM? As this is kinda clogging up the thread.

Edited by TechAnt, August 4 2020 - 10:20 AM.

My Ants:
(x1) Campontous semitstaceus ~20 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Camponotus vicinus ~10 workers, 1 Queen (all black variety)
(x1) Tetramorium immigrans ~100 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Myrmercocystus mexicanus -1 Queen
(x2) Mymercocystus mimcus -1 Queen
(x1) Mymercocystus testaceus ~45 workers, 1 Queen

#14 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 4 2020 - 10:23 AM

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Sorry it was unexpected that so many people would reply to what I said.

Edited by Kaelwizard, August 4 2020 - 10:23 AM.

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