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Can you feed pork to ants?

Started By Ants Latvia , Oct 21 2016 4:54 AM

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#1 Offline Ants Latvia - Posted October 21 2016 - 4:54 AM

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Can you feed pork to ants?

 


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#2 Offline Reacker - Posted October 21 2016 - 10:34 AM

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Yes.

 

A good general principle is that ants can usually eat what you eat. If you're worried about pesticides or toxicity then get a bunch of random workers and feed it to them. If they haven't died after a couple days (make sure to have another group of workers in  a separate container that you either don't feed or that you feed something safe like sugar water, and make sure both groups have water of course), then its probably safe to give to your colony. 


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#3 Offline drtrmiller - Posted October 21 2016 - 10:55 AM

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You really should find out what religion they practice, if any, before serving pork. Most ants I've kept happened to be Jewish or Muslim, and wouldn't go anywhere near it.
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#4 Offline Crystals - Posted October 21 2016 - 11:01 AM

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You can offer ants almost any food that graces your plate.  If they eat it, great.  If not, just remove it after a few hours.

Avoid raw potatoes and onions, they are known to be toxic to some ant species.

 

Table scraps are not an ideal long term diet, but works well for some variety.  I once had a Crematogaster colony that went nuts over skittles.  Most of my ants love greasy cooked chicken.

 

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#5 Offline Alabama Anter - Posted October 21 2016 - 1:15 PM

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You really should find out what religion they practice, if any, before serving pork. Most ants I've kept happened to be Jewish or Muslim, and wouldn't go anywhere near it.

Lmao

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#6 Offline gcsnelling - Posted October 21 2016 - 3:21 PM

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You really should find out what religion they practice, if any, before serving pork. Most ants I've kept happened to be Jewish or Muslim, and wouldn't go anywhere near it.

LOL same politically correct thought I had. However there is no reason not to feed it to them if they will eat it.


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