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My odontoponera queen wasn't doing anything but walking around. Is it normal?

Started By Hightlyze , Mar 19 2019 4:10 AM

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#1 Offline Hightlyze - Posted March 19 2019 - 4:10 AM

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Explained in a video here:

Correction: outworld not outhouse

Edited by Hightlyze, March 19 2019 - 4:16 AM.

i eat cars for breakfast everynight

#2 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 19 2019 - 6:02 AM

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If she didn't originally live in the tube, she probably doesn't deem it safe. Because her pheromones have not been laid there. She is probably looking for food as well. Give her part of a cricket and a small drop of honey.

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#3 Offline Hightlyze - Posted March 19 2019 - 6:18 AM

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If she didn't originally live in the tube, she probably doesn't deem it safe. Because her pheromones have not been laid there. She is probably looking for food as well. Give her part of a cricket and a small drop of honey.


Can I use honey only? I don't have crickets

i eat cars for breakfast everynight

#4 Offline EthanNgo678 - Posted March 19 2019 - 6:21 AM

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you need to give her protein you could use other insects like mealworms and fruitflies.


Plants r cool

#5 Offline Hightlyze - Posted March 19 2019 - 6:23 AM

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you need to give her protein you could use other insects like mealworms and fruitflies.


Fruit flies are the closest things I could get

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#6 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 19 2019 - 7:23 AM

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Then use fruit flies.

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