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[Gold]

Heyy, I have a Messor b. Queen with 20 worker ants for 2 weeks now.
My question is: they collected a lot of seeds into their test tube.
Do i have to remove it myself every few weeks or will they do it by themselves before it gets fungus.

I connected the test tube to an arena.

[Antcatcherpro3]

They naturally do that. Their common name is harvester ants (I'm pretty sure) and they collect seeds in there nest.

[Antcatcherpro3]

So I'd think they have a way to keep the seeds clean by themselves. Leave the seeds in there.

[Gold]

Thnx for the fast reply.
I'll leave it for now but will keep an eye on it every few weeks before it gets fungus.

[Lillyrose]

I'd wait .. they usually will eat them and then create a trash pile. Hopefully they'll choose a place that makes it easy to clean.