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Alternate food source for Hypoponera?

Started By ANTS_KL , Oct 24 2021 12:51 AM

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#1 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted October 24 2021 - 12:51 AM

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Hey all. Recently I've been pretty busy anting. And I caught a Hypoponera lumpurensis queen. I know they usually eat springtails but I was wondering do they actually eat other foods? I fed her a mealworm leg (yes it was hard to cut off my pre-killed mealworm) and she ate it very happily. But I'm not sure if I can raise a colony from her and was wondering will she eat just about any other small insects?

Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

YouTube: https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)

Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), ★ Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#2 Offline M_Ants - Posted October 24 2021 - 9:25 AM

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Hey all. Recently I've been pretty busy anting. And I caught a Hypoponera lumpurensis queen. I know they usually eat springtails but I was wondering do they actually eat other foods? I fed her a mealworm leg (yes it was hard to cut off my pre-killed mealworm) and she ate it very happily. But I'm not sure if I can raise a colony from her and was wondering will she eat just about any other small insects?

Fruit flies.