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[MaxGen]

Anyone have experience with Aphaenogaster picea and the best food they like?  I assume fruit flies, but I had a bad experience with mites in my last batch.  Turned me off keeping them.

 

What about seeds? 

 

Currently I'm feeding mealworm and cricket bits...

Edited by MaxGen, July 24 2019 - 6:21 PM.

[FeedTheAnts]

Almond are by far the best thing to feed them. I kept many different species of Aphaenogaster in the past and they all went crazy for them. Just crush them in to small bits with a hamer or something, and make sure they aren't salted or covered in other flavorings.

[Canadian anter]

Almond are by far the best thing to feed them. I kept many different species of Aphaenogaster in the past and they all went crazy for them. Just crush them in to small bits with a hamer or something, and make sure they aren't salted or covered in other flavorings.

Walnuts work really well for harvester ants, so I wouldn't be surprised in Aphaenogaster liked them too

[Acutus]

I've never tried Nuts, I will now though for sure, but Bot my Aphaenogasters  A. fulva and A. ?? like any type of insect I give them. I've done Fruit flies, green bottle and other flies, meal worms, crickets, beetles, wax worms, even bits of earth worm. They also like honey! Especially my A. fulva.