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[TinyAnts248]

I currently house a 4 queen thief ant colony that has 5 workers and a small pile of brood/eggs. I rarely see them forage, as they use to forage a lot more when they had 9 workers. I also am not sure how often I should feed them. I don't think they ate any of the fruit flies I gave them and I feed 3-5 at a time. Idk if that's too much for a colony of this size. They do drink honey from time to time and hunt the springtails in the nest. I guess my question is: How often should I feed them and what are some insects I can feed besides fruit flies? General Diet tips would be great. 

[bmb1bee]

Try feeding them tiny bits of seeds, nuts, or fish food. Items like that usually work with my thief ants and similar small species. Thief ants will also eat the brood of other ants in the wild, so you could try that if you have invasive ants around your house.

[TinyAnts248]

Try feeding them tiny bits of seeds, nuts, or fish food. Items like that usually work with my thief ants and similar small species. Thief ants will also eat the brood of other ants in the wild, so you could try that if you have invasive ants around your house.

You mean like bird seeds or fish flakes or those tiny fish pellets you feed betta fish?

[bmb1bee]

 

Try feeding them tiny bits of seeds, nuts, or fish food. Items like that usually work with my thief ants and similar small species. Thief ants will also eat the brood of other ants in the wild, so you could try that if you have invasive ants around your house.

You mean like bird seeds or fish flakes or those tiny fish pellets you feed betta fish?

 

Yes, those will work if crumbled up into very small pieces. 

[100lols]

They also love my cats dry food, Kirkland brand lol. I gusss you could try that.

[TinyAnts248]

bruh, the ants killed the queen. They are queenless now. Why did they do that. 

[ANTdrew]

The queen probably died of some other cause, and you saw the ants not letting a good protein source go to waste.