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Formica Subsericea food.

Started By 1tsm3jack , May 24 2024 6:52 PM

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#1 Offline 1tsm3jack - Posted May 24 2024 - 6:52 PM

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Anyone have any extensive experience with F. Subsericea and if they have a favorite thing to eat or anything like that? Thanks.

#2 Offline ANTdrew - Posted May 25 2024 - 4:12 AM

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They love small insects they can carry back into the nest like fruit flies or termites. They aren’t picky eaters at all, though.

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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#3 Offline 1tsm3jack - Posted May 25 2024 - 4:34 AM

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I have given them honey and I have given them chopped up bits of mealworm but they haven't seemed interested. I might go try to collect a couple termites today and try to feed them those.

#4 Offline ANTdrew - Posted May 25 2024 - 6:48 AM

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If this is a colony you dug up from the wild, they are probably just struggling to adjust to captivity.

"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#5 Offline 1tsm3jack - Posted May 25 2024 - 7:09 AM

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If this is a colony you dug up from the wild, they are probably just struggling to adjust to captivity.

Possibly, but the queen started to lay eggs again 2 days after I got her, so I have no idea, I will try what you suggested and get them little things to carry back inside.