I have copied this list from a few other sites.
We can keep updating it.
Keep in mind that some foods are more readily accepted depending on the season and how much brood the colony has, as well as the stage of the brood.
Acromyrmex versicolor (diet only consists of Leucoagaricus gongylophorus fungus, but likes various substrate to use as fertilizer)
Likes (used as fungus fertilizer):
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Oat meal
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Various cereals
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Fish pellets
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Sunflower petals
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Poppy seeds
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Ironwood leaves and flower petals
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Rose petals
Aphaenogaster fulva
Likes:
- Scrambled eggs
- Mealworms
- Apples
- Crickets
- Honey
- Small Flies
Aphaenogaster lamellidans
Likes:
- Scrambled eggs
- Mealworms
- Apples
- Crickets
- Honey
- Small Flies
- Dislikes:
- Honey
- Maple syrup
Aphaenogaster occidentalis
Likes:
- Crickets
- Meal worms
- Fruit flies
- Apple
- Nectarine
- Egg yolk
- Cake
- Small Flies
Dislikes:
- Honey
- Maple syrup
Aphaenogaster rudis
Likes:
- Scrambled eggs
- Apples
- Crickets
- Honey
- Fruit flies
- Subterranean termites
- Small, dead spiders
- Pure sugar sprinkles (big pink/purple ones)
- Cockroaches
Dislikes:
- Various carpet beetle larvae
- Jumping bristletails
- Crane fly larvae
- Wireworms
May like:
- Mealworms
Camponotus americanus
Likes:
- Honey / Water
- Maple Syrup / Water
- Sugar / Water
- Honeydew Melon
- Termites
- Mealworms
- Fruits
- Crickets
- Spiders
- Small Flies
Camponotus castaneus
Likes:
- Apples
- Spiders
- Syrup/water
- Honey
- Cave crickets
- Cherries
- Red grapes
- Fruti Flies
May like:
- Oranges
Camponotus chromaiodes
Likes:
- Syrup water
- Crickets
- Spiders
- Water
- Sugar water
- Mealworms
- Super worms
- Beetle larvae
- Beetles
- Fruit Flies
- Greasy chicken
- Apples
- Oranges
- Other fruits
- Cherries
Dislikes:
- Jello
May like:
- Bananas
Camponotus herculeanus
Likes:
- Hummingbird Nectar
- Crickets
- Spiders
- Sugar water
- Mealworms
- Fruit Flies
- Greasy chicken
- Maggots
Camponotus nicobarensis
Likes:
- Crickets
- Flies
- Cockroaches
- Small 'crispy' insects
- Sugar water
Dislikes:
- Butterfly/moth larvae
- Other 'wet' insects
Camponotus pennsylvanicus
Likes:
- Crickets
- Syrup water
- Honey water
- Chocolate whey protein shake
- Apple
- Cicadas
- Termites
- Preserved pineapple
- Fruit fly
- Spider
- House fly
- Red grapes
- Cherries
Dislikes:
- Mealworms
- Honey bee
- Canned tuna
- Fish food
- Cooked chicken
- Thawed out frozen brine shrimp
- Thawed out frozen bloodworm
- Raisin
- Banana chips
- Pupperoni
Camponotus tortuganus
Likes:
- Honey
- Sugar water
- Crickets
- Fruit flies
- House flies
- House fly maggots
- Spiders
- Flowers blossoming with nectar
- Caterpillars
- Few day old wet cat food
Dislikes:
- Egg
- Strawberry
- Banana
- Grapes
- Maple syrup
May like:
- Aphids
- Wax worm moths
Camponotus vicinus
Likes:
- Sliced mealworms (preferably ones that have been killed only recently)
- Honey water
- Maple syrup water
- Honey water mixed with whey protein powder
- Fruit Flies
Dislikes:
- Crickets
- Most types of insects
May like:
- Egg yolk
Crematogaster cerasi
Likes:
- Earwigs
- Honey
- Sugar water
- Crickets
- Spiders
- Grasshoppers
- Flies
- Moths
- Beetles
- Tuna
Doesn't like:
- Bread
- Wasps
- Fruit
- Raw honey
- Store-bought humingbird nectar
Crematogaster scutellaris
Likes:
- Centipedes
- Honey
- Sausage
- Bread
- Larval stages in general
- Mealworms (frozen or fresh)
- Flies
- Boiled egg
- Chicken
Dislikes:
- D. melanogaster (fruit fly species)
- Crickets
Forelius pruinosus/mccooki
Likes:
- Termites
- Crickets (prefer small crickets, but will go after the medium/large ones)
- Honey
- Cooked chicken
- Cooked beef
- Crushed cat food
- Dried brine shrimp
- Crushed cashews
Dislikes:
- Raw chicken
- Raw Beef
- Wet catfood
- Crushed walnuts
- Crushed peanuts
- Watermelon
Formica cunicularia
Likes:
- Spiders
- Small and medium crickets
- Fruit fly
- Apple
- Honey
- Sugar
- Cooked chicken, eggs with sugar
Doesn't like:
- Millipedes
- Mealworms
- Hairy bees
- Banana
- Pears
- Kiwi
- Carnivorous fish food with honey
- Tuna fish
Formica fusca
Likes:
- Any fresh insect
- Honey
- Sugar/water
- Boiled egg
- Cooked Chicken
- Syrup/water with whey protein powder
- Jello
Formica podzolica
Likes:
- Hummingbird nectar
- Fruit flies
- Most small soft insects
- Cooked Chicken
- Mealworms
Lasius niger
Likes:
- Freeze Dried Tubifex Worms
- Cooked Chicken
- Mosquito Larva
- Moths
- Honey Water
- Pear
- Strawberries
- Honey
- Flies
- Mealworms
- Boiled egg
- Aquarium snails
- Fruit flies
Dislikes:
- Beetle Jelly
- Brown sugar water
- Bluebottle Flies
- Banana
- Chocolate
- Raw chicken
- Kiwi
May like:
- Honey water
- Gammarus
- Pork Jelly from pies
- Spiders (Has to be fresh)
- Earwigs
- Crickets
- Maggots
- Hummingbird nectar
Linepithema humile
Likes:
- Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly species)
- Housefly
- Crickets
- Honey
- Larval stages in general
Dislikes:
- Centipedes
- Orange
- Bread
- Sausage
- Other ants
- Slugs
- Apple
- Spaghetti
Messor barbarus
Likes:
- Most seeds
- Freshly dead flies
- Fruit flies
- Crickets
- Mealworms
- Boiled egg
- Chicken
Dislikes:
- Honey
- Spiders
May like:
- Sugar/water
Myrmica sp.
Likes:
- Mealworms
- Crickets
- Mango
- Banana, squished with added water
- Spiders
- Hummingbird nectar
- Fruit flies
- Some aquarium snails
- Microworms
- Formica pupae
- Small moths
- Fruit flies
- Hummingbird nectar
- Maggots
Dislikes:
- Frozen krill
- Sunflower seeds
- Fish pellets
- Pond snails
- Dog food
- Cat food
- Dandelion seeds
- Sunflower seeds
- Niter seeds
- Oriole nectar
May like:
- Grasshopper
- Earthworm
- Dried tubifex
- Honey/water
- Honey
Pheidole hyatti
Likes:
- Honey
- Termites
- Small crickets
- Cooked chicken
- Cooked beef
- Dried cat food
- Peanuts
Dislikes:
- Dried brine shrimp
- Dried cat food (my current colony completely ignored it, but that may change as the colony gets older. I had previous colonies that liked it.)
- Wet cat food
- Raw chicken
- Raw beef
- Watermelon
- Medium/large sized crickets
Pheidole indica
Likes:
- Any sort of insects
- Fruits
- Small seeds
- Chicken
Dislikes:
- Honey
- Sugar/water
Pheidole pallidula
Likes:
- Any kind of freshly dead insect
- Some small seeds (niger seed)
- Boiled egg
- Chicken
- Dead crickets
- Dead locusts
- Dead flies
Dislikes:
- Honey
- Sugar/water
- Maple syrup
- Chocolate
- Fruits
Pogonomyrmex badius
Likes:
- Honey
- Grasshoppers
- Mealworms
- Canary grass seeds
- Groat oats
Pogonomyrmex californicus
Likes:
Seeds:
- Thistle
- Millet
- Flax (Blue)
- Rapeseed (Rapa)
- Burmuda grass
- Buffalo Grass
- Kentucky Blue Grass
- Prairie Aster
- Desert Marigold
- Farewell to spring
- Plains coreopsis
- California poppy
- Mexican gold poppy
- Indian Blanket
- Bird's Eyes
- Tidy Tips
- Arizona Lupine
- Arroyo Lupine
- Blazing Star
- Five Spot
- White Evening Primrose
- Snowy Pink Ev. Primrose
- California Bluebell
- Mexican Hat
Other:
- Flies
- Darkling Beetles
- Mealworms (darkling beetle larvae)
- Moths
- Crickets
- Dubia roaches
Prenolepis imparis
Likes:
- Crickets
- Bananas
Solenopsis molesta
Likes:
- P. californicus pupae
- Fruit flies
Temnothorax curvispinosus
Likes:
- Maple Syrup / water
- Honeydew Melon
- Termites (beheaded)
May like:
- Mealworms (sliced)
Tetramorium caespitum
Likes:
- Cooked Chicken
- Any kind of fresh insects
- Frozen thawed insects
- Sugar/water
- Dried sun flower seeds without husks
- Dried pumpkin seeds
- Chopped up almonds
- Chopped up hazelnuts
- Various seeds from birds seed mix
- Boiled egg
- Dark rye bread
- Dried cat food
Dislikes:
- Seeds and nuts with hard husks
Trachymyrmex septentrionalis (diet only consists of Leucoagaricus gongylophorus fungus, but likes various substrate to use as fertilizer)
Likes (used as fungus fertilizer):
- Honey
- Rabbit feces
- Rose petals
- Various leaves
- Juice consisting of sugar, carbs, and fats
May like:
- Crickets
Edited by dspdrew, June 2 2015 - 1:58 PM.
Fixed some formatting