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Just when you thought there was debris in your colony.


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#1 Offline Huch - Posted August 15 2015 - 6:40 PM

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Over the last month, I have noticed debris piles in the test tubes of my Crematogastor Cerasi colonies. I suspected it was food due to how consipicous it was; somtimes right in the middle of the test tubes. Today, I fed all the colonies, and the colony in the video was fed a bright green grasshopper. About 10 hours after feeding them, I took a look at the colony, and I noticed the grasshopper was nearly entirely consumed, and I noticed a new green debris pile in the test tube. I took a small video of what I observed.

 


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#2 Offline dspdrew - Posted August 15 2015 - 6:56 PM

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Crematogaster will chew up every bit of food you give them and make a giant pile of powdered food.



#3 Offline LC3 - Posted August 15 2015 - 7:10 PM

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Crematogaster will chew up every bit of food you give them and make a giant pile of powdered food.

Why??



#4 Offline William. T - Posted August 16 2015 - 5:14 PM

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It turns color, sometimes. I remove it then.


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Species I keep:

 

1 Lasius cf. Neoniger 30 workers

1 Camponotus sp. 15 workers

20 Tetramorium SpE 30 workers

1 T. Sessile 200 workers

 





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