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[Loops117]

Hey guys. I could use some help. 3 days ago I had an incident with one of my larger Tapinoma sessile colonies. I woke up and found roughly 600 workers missing. I spent about a half hour before work collecting what I could, but it didn't get me far. Well, today I noticed this. Same thing in one of my roach bins. My community has a large amount of insects in it, so it's going to be rough getting them out.

Other option would be to allow them to stay. Antwiki and other sites say they eat fruits, veggies, and dead insects. So they won't attack my insects? If this is the case, I may allow them to stay.

Any thoughts?

[Martialis]

From my experience, T. sessile is not an aggressive species. I don't think they will directly hurt your other insects, but may compete for food and resources.

[Vendayn]

Like Martialis said, Tapinoma sessile aren't really aggressive. They never ate live insects when I gave them live food (when I had a colony many years ago), and instead ran away from the live food and hid. They might eat the eggs/babies/young of the other insects if you are breeding the other insects though, that be only thing I'd worry about with Tapinoma sessile. Other than that, they are rather timid and would rather run away than fight. For example, when a colony where I used to live, numbered in the millions and could have easily taken over the Argentine ants in my old complex, they instead were wimps and let themselves be killed or/and ran off.

 

Which could be the other problem too actually, if they get so many workers. They can get pretty big colonies.

Edited by Vendayn, May 27 2017 - 12:07 PM.

[Nathant2131]

http://mississippien...tm#.WSnuOGjys2w

 

"they also feed on both live and dead insects"

[Loops117]

In gonna have to weigh out my options and see what works. I'm trying to breed my grasshoppers, as well as my darklings beetles. I don't want the ants eating everything. I think I'm gonna drop a couple test tunes with tiny openings in there. Collect the workers and put them back with the original colony.